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The must-have Texas bourbon story gets the documentary treatment | FILM REVIEW
It’s said everything is bigger in Texas, perhaps nowhere more so than in the incredible true story of Garrison Brothers, a bespoke whiskey distillery in the humble town of Hye whose Texas bourbon is now the toast of the Lone Star State.
“Cowboy Bourbon” is an intriguing new documentary about Dan Garrison, a dreamer who believed that authentic bourbon more >
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“GOLDA” director Guy Nattiv chats about working with Helen Mirren and bringing the past to life
It’s been a bit of a long road for Israeli filmmaker Guy Nattiv, whose new film about Golda Meir’s turbulent days during the Yom Kippur War of 1973 is dramatized in “Golda.” ... more >
If you want to learn more about the Manhattan Project, filmmaker Steve James has just the documentary for you: “A COMPASSIONATE SPY” | INTERVIEW
Thanks to a certain current blockbuster film, almost everyone is now familiar with J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called father of the atomic bomb. And while Christopher Nolan’s ... more >
Revisiting “KOKOMO CITY” for its theatrical run with director D. Smith | IN CONVERSATION
At DC/DOX last June I saw “Kokomo City,” which details the lives of four Black trans sex workers facing multiple hardships. Director D. Smith, a trans woman and a Grammy nominee, ... more >
THE WEEK IN REVIEW
The must-have Texas bourbon story gets the documentary treatment | FILM REVIEW
It’s said everything is bigger in Texas, perhaps nowhere more so than in the incredible true story of Garrison Brothers, a bespoke whiskey distillery in the humble town of Hye whose Texas ... more >
“DARK ASSET”; let’s be honest here | MOVIE REVIEW
A super soldier genetically enhanced for maximum power; a living, breathing killing machine. The soldier escapes from a laboratory and must be stopped. Who is the real villain, the soldier ... more >
In “Nina & Irena” filmmaker Daniel Lombroso interviews his grandmother, who survived the Holocaust
The filmmaker Daniel Lombroso continues to amaze me. I learned of his work early in the pandemic, encountering his documentary “White Noise” at the first (but not last) virtual AFI DOCS fest ... more >
“THE CURSE OF WILLOW SONG,” one of the year’s most memorable films | REVIEW
Writer/director Karen Lam’s “The Curse of Willow Song” is an interesting character study and effective horror film crafted with an artful eye and the kind of picture modern horror (nay, ... more >
Please don’t go to sleep; “MEGALOMANIAC”
Inspired by the true story of the “Butcher of Mons” who murdered five women between 1996 and 1997 (and was never caught), the new Belgian thriller “Megalomaniac” is an artful and unrelenting ... more >
Plot threads and character arcs dangling in the emptiness of it all; “BAD THINGS”
Stewart Thorndike, the writer and director of the new horror film “Bad Things” loves “The Shining.” Thorndike really loves that picture and doesn’t want his audience to forget it, so he ... more >
Something is rotten in Holdenfield the week before Halloween; “COBWEB”
The creators of the new horror film “Cobweb” and I are simpatico regarding the sad state of the modern horror film. My lack of patience with the unoriginality and lack of craft in most of ... more >
Yes. But no. The “HEART OF STONE” review
Written by Allison Schroeder and Greg Ruka and directed by Tom Harper, the new Netflix action thriller “Heart of Stone” is the dictionary definition of ludicrous. Gal Gadot (trying hard ... more >
