Spell is a new horror film that will leave you thinking… should I go to bed with the lights on? The film stars the fabulous Loretta Devine (Waiting To Exhale, Crash) and Omari Hardwick (Power, Sorry to Bother You). And it centers on Omari’s character Marquis. While flying to his father’s funeral in rural Appalachia, an […]
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(In The Seats published a shorter version of this review of City Hall during TIFF. This longer version exists because I didn’t feel like being lazy today, because this film deserves effort). City Hall is Frederick Wiseman’s exploration of the local government in Boston, Massachusetts. It goes without saying that it takes a lot to […]
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Sometimes things just miss the mark… Ravers which is on VOD now has the elements to be a fun horror ride but it never quite hits the mark as it never knows what beats to hit as it tells it’s story. When a contaminated energy drink turns an illegal rave into a nightmare, a germaphobic […]
Read MoreShari Rogers directed the new documentary Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance. It transports the viewer to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. During a time divided by deeply embedded racial segregation, Jewish leaders worked very closely with Dr. Martin Luther King on his mission for national hope and healing. History almost […]
Read MoreIn telling Pedro Santana’s story, director and producer Lillian LaSalle employs techniques that a regular documentary uses. There’s the sit down interviews with his siblings telling viewers about Pedro’s time in the peace corps in Kenya. In moving back to the Bronx, New York, he saw the same ‘third world’ conditions. LaSalle then shows the […]
Read MoreBack in 1986, after making his directorial debut with the criminally underrated Night of the Creeps, Fred Dekker set upon his next project. This was to be his version of a mashup between the old ‘Our Gang‘ serials and the classic Universal Monsters called Monster Squad. And while Universal quickly nixed the idea of using […]
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Set in Norway during WWII, The Crossing tells the story of ten-year-old Gerda, an intrepid young girl with an adventurous spirit. When she and her more cautious older brother Otto witness the arrest of their parents for their role in the Resistance, the even justifiably shakes the two. The two children decide to venture into […]
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Sports movies have a way of transcending the game they are featuring and imbuing them with the human characters that create the magic. That magic is everywhere, in the arena, on the court, the rink, the ski slope. Its the human drama and their passion for their sport that is able to reach all viewers. […]
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