"The mysteries of life. The mystery of everyone who passes us on the street. What is happening in the lives of these people? Sometimes nothing. Perhaps something.”
Strangers walk by one another and might say “hello.” Other times, we glide by, silent and unaware, not knowing what plight others are experiencing. An acknowledgment, a smile, it has importance. It could save a life, even.
For some, redemption lies at the end of a long and difficult path. For many, that road is without a bend, to others a winding and treacherous journey of doubt awaits. To those who have done jail time all this can seem impossible.
Writer/director E.B. Hughes’’s New York City-set “The Long Way Back” follows one Max Lyons, a man who’s just been released from prison after doing a year and a half stretch for theft.
I've never really cared for the films of Zack Snyder. They may look great as the director gives each one his unique visual style but the films feel empty and badly scripted.
Apart from his debut feature as director, the surprisingly respectful remake of George A. Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead,” every Snyder film became more and more insufferable. (It should be noted that, as of this writing
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” - John Lennon
Season Three of Aziz Ansari’s excellent Netflix series “Master of None” is quite the departure.
Season One was a lite and funny take on the New York dating lives of Ansari’s Dev and his close friends Denise and Arnold.
Hanif Muhammad made the conscious decision to rise above the injustice and poverty that befell him and many in his community.
Muhammad found himself incarcerated due to the many bad choices made in his youth, as he went down a wrong path for many years. Allowed a second chance to rise above it all and break the stereotypes that affected many of his friends and family from
Actor Clayne Crawford impressed me with his performance in the excellent and underrated 2012 thriller, “The Baytown Outlaws.” In a film full of over-the-top violence and macho posturing, Crawford found a realistic tone to his performance which kept the film centered.
His film choices have been uninteresting and haven’t challenged him as an actor since this.
Crawford is back on my radar
In the opening moment of “Outlaws” (scored to the Doom-tinged sound of the song “Lunacy” from the Ambient-Rock group Swans), a leather-clad motorcycle gang cuts through the night streets like riders of an oncoming Apocalypse. It is a moment that immediately grabs and foreshadows the aura of the film.
Director Stephen McCallum immediately assures us that his first feature