For the first 15 minutes or so of HE’S WATCHING, you might be forgiven if you think that this is just another semi-inspired entry into the found-footage sub-genre of horror. I’m not sure that isn’t exactly what filmmaker Jacob Estes intended. It certainly makes what follows all the more effective for it having lulled us… Read More »
2022 San Francisco Mime Troupe: Back to the Way Things Were — Velina Brown Interview
Click here to listen to the interview. The San Francisco Mime Troupe returns after a two-year hiatus from live performances with the musical satire Back to the Way Things Were. It’s a timely (of course) look at intergenerational worldviews and a pointed examination of where nostalgia fails, It’s directed by Velina Brown, who, like the… Read More »
HOW TO SURVIVE A PANDEMIC — David France Interview
Ten years ago, David France made the Oscar™-nominated HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE, a powerful documentary about the AIDS crisis, and the response by the actvist community to the inertia around finding a cure. When I spoke with France on March 28, 2022 about his latest documentary, HOW TO SURVIVE A PANDEMIC, I asked him… Read More »
QUEEN OF BASKETPALL — Ben Proudfoot Interview
Ben Proudfoot prefers to make documentaries that are short, not feature length, for the freedom it affords him. Without the burden of a feature-length budget to raid, or backers to whom he must answer, he can choose his subjects and tell their stories the way he wants to. It’s a philosophy that has resulted in… Read More »
TOGETHER
Click here for the flashback interview with James McAvoy and Joe Wright for ATONEMENT. Years from now, Dennis Kelly’s TOGETHER will be an integral part of future generations understanding the zeitgeist of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be an excellent reminder, too, for those of us who lived through that pandemic, after time and subsequent… Read More »
WHEN I CONSUME YOU — Perry Blackshear, Macleod Andrews, Evan Dumouchel, and Libby Ewing Interview
Click here to listen to the interview. I spoke by Zoom to writer/director Perry Blackshear and actors/producers Macleod Andrews, Evan Dumouchel, and Libby Ewing ahead of the world premiere of their film, WHEN I CONSUME YOU, at the Fantasia International Film Festival. This intense psychological horror/mystery film deals with Daphne and Will (Ewing and Dumouchel),… Read More »