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The Farewell
Tinsel & Tine #MiniMovieReview THE FAREWELL, this summer’s indie hit which reached the top ten in its 2nd weekend with the fewest theaters of any movie all year! This is the one you’ve probably heard is “based on an actual lie,” which happened in writer/director Lulu Wang’s life – The handling of her grandmother’s end-of-life care. “The Farewell” stars Awkwafina (aka Nora Lum) best known for playing the outrageous, over the top friend from college in “Crazy Rich Asians”. Here she’s given the opportunity to tone it down as Billi, an unassuming, pensive, millennial Chinese American young woman who’s already having a hard time trying to make ends meet, pursue…
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (Quentin Tarantino) There is an easygoing nature to the way the story unfolds over the course of its first two hours (total run time 2hr 39min) before leading up to the hot, fateful night in August 1969. This is Tarantino’s love letter to the Los Angeles of his childhood and the industry that he embodies. The movie is mostly atmospheric, full of reconstructed nostalgia, like old TV shows, Manix and FBI which were the appointment TV of the time. If these had been the TV shows I grew up with, I would NEVER have become a TV junky; they looked horribly boring and gritty.…
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5 QUESTIONS for Filmmaker: STORM SAULTER
SPRINTER is the Winner of the Best Feature Film, Best Director, and Audience Award at 2018’s American Black Film Festival, Jury Winner for Best Narrative Feature at the 2019 Pan African Film Festival, and is a feature narrative screening at Philadelphia's BlackStar Film Festival
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8th Annual BLACKSTAR FILM FESTIVAL COVERAGE
Founded in 2012 by Maori Karmael Holmes, BlackStar has become the hottest event on the film festival calendar. Exposing and providing its audience with must-see film premieres, poignant artist discussions, and discoveries of emerging filmmakers. Remember, artists like Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty; HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness), Matthew A. Cherry (9 RIdes; ABC's Whiskey Cavalier), Nijla Baseema Mu'min (Jinn)
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The Lion King
Tinsel & Tine #MiniMovieReview THE LION KING (Director Jon Favreau) “photo real” they’re not calling this one “live action” This movie was made in multiple ways – First in VR, and then animated, and then live action filmmaking techniques were used. It’s gorgeous! The production value is like “Jungle Book”, but stays closer to the look and feel of the original 1994 Lion King in many ways. Scar looks so much like the animated version down to the thin butt and raggedy ear, but he also looks so much like an actual lion. I have to do some more research on the making of, cause the blend of visuals is…
