Happy Tuesday, folks! It's not just another Tuesday on the calendar though, it's the start of the Twin Cities Film Fest! I'm excited to be covering the event starting tonight with The Bully Project documentary tonight, followed by Q&A with director Lee Hirsch. I'm hoping to have time to ask a couple of questions during …
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Happy Sunday everyone! The Emmy just wrapped tonight and though I didn't watch it, it makes me think of some shows that are going to be premiering this Fall. I don't usually have time to watch more than one TV series a week, but these three shows are intriguing enough I might have to blog …
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Happy Friday everybody! I feel like ending the week with a less wordy post but nonetheless a very expressive one. Thanks to Nick over at Anomalous Material for the inspiration when he posted his 13 most iconic movie images, followed by Claire's top ten days later. What makes a movie still iconic is not only …
Less than a week away until Twin Cities Film Fest starts on Tuesday, September 20th. So today I'm going to highlight five documentaries worth seeing that are premiering next week at TCFF. I don't watch as many docs as I should, in fact, out of the five I highlighted from last year, I've only managed …
Continue reading TCFF Spotlight: 5 Buzz-worthy Documentaries
Lantana begins with ambient music and a tracking shot of vegetation which eventually come to rest on a woman's corpse, face down so that we can't tell who she was. Then we meet the characters whose lives are entangled like the branches of a lantana shrub, a perennial flowering plant that has a tendency to …
Happy Tuesday, folks. I don't have much time to blog today but I thought I'd highlight one of my favorite composers, Hans Zimmer, who turned 54 yesterday. Ever so prolific with over 140 works under his belt, including movies, TV and even video games, the German native is known for using tribal/ethnic sounding elements in …
Continue reading Music Break: Top Five Favorite Hans Zimmer Scores
It's nice to see a film you've been anticipating actually meets your expectation. I've been waiting to see The Debt for quite a while, and when Miramax studio was shut down by Disney last January 2010, I feared that this movie would've gone straight to DVD. Fortunately that wasn't the case, so as soon as …
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