Witches make for great villains in horror films. From a creepy ballet instructor to a shadowy hermitess in the woods,
Flickchart Road Trip: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
We’re hitching a ride on the Flickchart Texas BBQ Road Trip! This time, we’re visiting the heart of Texas BBQ, the home capital and base of everything that has populated the Texas BBQ scene: Lockhart, home to many prestigious BBQ places, though only this one made the list. Stop #21:
The Yearling (1946)
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling (1946) stars Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman as Penny and Ora, married pioneer farmers who live and work deep in the Florida backwoods. Their son Jody (Claude Jarman Jr.) is their sole surviving child. Fearing that her
‘THIRTEEN LIVES’ Explores the Depths of Human Ingenuity and Bravery in Workmanlike Retelling
It Takes a Village Thirteen Lives, Ron Howard’s dramatic retelling of the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue, takes an understatement approach to heroics, swerving away from the dramatic fanfare and teary-eyed grace notes of a typical Hollywood feature and relying instead on something more workmanlike, cut-and-dry, and almost minimalist. The true story that inspires Thirteen…
Dope Encounters Of The NOPE Kind
Now playing at a multiplex near everybody: NOPE (Dir. Jordan Peele, 2022) Jordan Peele is on a roll. While his second feature, US (2019), didn’t reach the heights of his 2017 directorial debut, GET OUT (a modern masterpiece in my book or on this blog), it was still an