2020 Jam21 Entertainment/Seven Word Letter Films/Amazon Studios Written and Directed by Eugene Ashe Produced by Eugene Ashe/Nnamdi Asomugha/Gabrielle Glore/Jonathan Baker/Matthew Thurm Music by Fabrice Lecomte Cinematography by Declan Quinn Edited by Dana Congdon While it isn’t necessary to be familiar with the films of Douglas Sirk to enjoy SYLVIE’S LOVE it also doesn’t hurt to […]
Read More Sylvie’s Love2020 Directed, Written, Narrated and Produced by Chris Bournea Cinematography by Paul Hill/April Martin Edited by Paul Hill I myself don’t know a whole lot about Wrestling as a sport or as entertainment. Back in the 1980s I was a casual fan of the WWF (now known as the WWE) and of G.L.O.W. (Gorgeous Ladies […]
Read More Lady Wrestler: The Amazing, Untold Story of African-American Women In The Ring2020 Golden Girl/Brillstein Entertainment/Partners/Burr Productions/Get Lifted Film Company/260 Degrees Entertainment/Netflix Written and Directed by David E. Talbert Produced by Lyn Sisson-Talbert/David E. Talbert/Kristen Burr/John Legend/Mike Jackson/David McIlvain Music by John Debney Cinematography by Remi Adefarasin Edited by Michael Tronick/Joe Galdo/Virginia Katz Steamfunk is defined as a philosophy or style of writing and visual aesthetic that combines the […]
Read More Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey2019 Armory Films/Lucky Treehouse/Bona Fide Productions/Endeavor Content/Roadside Attractions Directed and Written by Tyler Nilson/Michael Schwartz Produced by Albert Berger/Christopher Lemole/Lije Sarki/David Theis/Ron Yerxa/ Music by Zachary Dawes/Noam Pikelny/Jonathan Sadoff/Gabe Witcher Cinematography by Nigel Bluck Edited by Kevin Tent/Nathaniel Fuller Zak (Zack Gottsagen) is in his 20s yet lives in a state-run facility for the elderly […]
Read More The Peanut Butter Falcon2020 Netflix/Further Films/Lighthouse Management+Media/Ryan Murphy Television/ Created by Evan Romansky Developed by Ryan Murphy Music by Mac Quayle Based on the character of Nurse Ratched from “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey and from the Saul Zaentz Company motion picture of the same title 8 Episodes Merriam-Webster defines Grand Guignol as being […]
Read More Ratched: S1If there were a theme running through the second season of Jordan Peele’s reboot of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, it would be called… …the mean season. Peele still sticks to the spirit of Rod Serling’s brainchild, but there are a lot of episodes that would’ve fit more in the horror vein as a continuation of Serling’s […]
Read More The Twilight Zone Season Two Review by Sean E. Ali2019 Raimi Productions/Fire Axe Pictures/Paramount Pictures Directed by Alexandre Aja Produced by Craig J. Flores/Sam Raimi/Alexandre Aja Written by Michael Rasmussen/Shawn Rasmussen Music by Max Aruj/Steffan Thum Cinematography by Maxime Alexandre Edited By Eliot Greenberg I have to admit with no shame at all that I do so love that I no longer have to […]
Read More CrawlDirected by Robert Eggers Starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson I always feel a bit of pressure to give a film like THE LIGHTHOUSE a better rating. No, not because I once planned to write a book (or maybe I did …?) way back in the MV1 days called THE LIGHTHOUSE, but because we need […]
Read More The Lighthouse: A Mark Bousquet ReviewWhen I watched the clumsy SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL last week or so, I made the point that altering source material is not an automatic reason for me to dislike a movie. SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL isn’t mediocre because it changed almost all of Ace Atkins novel or gutted all the heart and charm from Robert Parker’s characters, or […]
Read More The Long Goodbye: A Mark Bousquet Review2019 Knuckle Sandwich Productions/Indie Rights Written and Directed by Detdrich McClure Produced by David Douglas/Kiarra Graves/Raymond James Herrera/LaCora Stephens/Detdrich McClure Music by Jairo Duarte-Lopez/Michael Eremiasova Cinematography by Adam Gan Edited by Brian Uskokovich When Patricia and I get together in the evenings to watch a movie I like to let her pick what we watch. […]
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