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Free screening passes for Flight (Thurs Nov 1)
POST UPDATE- SCREENING DATE PASSED =================================================== Originally Posted 10/30/2012 Unfortunately, due to the storm, I had sporadic at best, internet service the last two days, so this offer is being posted late. Hope my readers/visitors will be able to take advantage of these FREE SCREENING PASSES for Denzel Washington’s new movie Flight (click for trailer). I saw the film closing night of the Philadelphia Film Festival with director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Back to the Future) in attendance! Director of “Flight” Robert Zemeckis at Philly Film Fest My review of Flight and highlights from the post screening Q & A will be posted soon. Free Screening Date: Thursday,…
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Partaking: A Polite Bribe
Was invited to a screening of a biopic on the Apostle Paul called A Polite Bribe by filmmaker Robert Orlando. For as long as I can remember, I’ve attended bible study classes; not continuously and never formally at a University or College, but regularly through a church. Sadly and disgracefully, I retain very little and can regurgitate nothing. In recent years, I tend to go not for religious instruction, or spiritual learning, but more for historical interest. Which is the perspective of A Polite Bribe. Told through chiaroscuro animation, a style which features a single light source, Orlando focuses on a man who possessed unwaveringly resilience and determination. Paul’s mission…
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Support AFFRM – Kinyarwanda at select theaters this weekend
AFFRM is the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement – empowering black independent filmmakers with collaborative, simultaneous theatrical distribution in multiple markets. Last March AFFRM got behind Ava DuVernay’s I Will Follow (click for T & T commentary). Giving it a chance to reach a wider audience. This weekend AFFRM is launching Alrick Brown’s KINYARWANDA. Which I will screen on Sunday. The below video from Reelblack features Brown talking about the film, AFFRM and the state of African American Cinema in general. For all its greatness, “Hotel Rwanda” nevertheless used the conventional Hollywood technique of a movie star as a protagonist to serve as the audience’s entry point. None of the…
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Commentary – Hugo
So here we are once again in the midst of the holiday movie season with plenty of family fun and enchantment to choose from: The Muppets make a comeback; Happy Feet II or is it III?; For the tweens and teens, another addition to the Twilight Saga, and for adults wanting to take their children to something magical with a message – Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, based on Brian Selznick award winning book The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The film is set circa 1930’s, although Hugo (Asa Butterfield) looks like a street urchin straight out of a Dickens novel. He’s an orphan whose wonderfully loving father, a clockmaker (Jude Law) dies…
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Commentary – J. Edgar
He was a mysterious figure in American history. His personal life was always shrouded in mystery … He was this bulldog figure, the face of the FBI, and he changed our country in a time of great lawlessness. Bank robbers were going from state to state becoming local heroes; he cleaned up all that mess. Got rid of the Commies and Bolshevik invasion while single handily creating this new federal police force. He was part of modern forensics and identifying everybody in our country. But then there were all those salacious rumors that you heard about him too. So it was very exciting to see somebody’s (Clint Eastwood) very specific…
