The Black Hole (1979) Review – Disney Goes Dark In Its First PG Film
Walt Disney’s response to Star Wars is The Black Hole “The Black Hole” opens with some dark music as a space ship slowly crosses the screen that houses the crew, and the robot, that is not RTD2 because this robot talks and floats. His name…
Review of Blinded by the Light – Feel Good and Sing Along
An uplifting film which will leave you humming to the tunes of Bruce Springsteen Directed by Gurinder Chadha, most well known as the writer and director of the smash hit Bend it Like Beckham, Blinded by the Light is set in Luton in 1987 during…
A Review of the Documentary “Gaza”
“Gaza” draws you in, thinking the strip doesn’t look that bad, and then shows you it is that bad. Imagine living in a place that is 25 miles long and 7 miles wide, and is populated by 2 million people and growing. Then add to…
A Review of the Movie Pavarotti
In the heady days of World Cup Italia 90, a friend commented to me that he hoped “we got Brazil in the world cup final as that would be the sweetest victory of all”. The nation had been enraptured with a heretofore untasted success, fueled…
Extra Ordinary Review – A Feel-Good Comedic Horror Film
Extra Ordinary is a charming comedic fantasy horror directed by Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman. It tells the tale of a young old-fashioned Rose (Maeve Higgins) living in rural Ireland with an ordinary job, but she has supernatural abilities including speaking to dead. The locals…
Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans Review
What works as a TV show does not necessarily work as a movie. Whenever I attend a movie screening, I try to watch it from the point of view of the target audience. That way I’m giving it as fair of a review as possible….
Types of Camera Shots for Framing an Image
One of the first things a filmmaker needs to learn is camera shots. Since filmmaking is a visual medium we are not just telling the story through the dialog but also by how we frame what the audience sees on the screen. By learning the…
A Review of Child’s Play 2019 – Chucky 2.0 Fails a Software Update
In an era of reboots and sequels, can Child’s Play live up to the original? I watched the original “Child’s Play” many years ago and enjoyed it at the time. But then again, I was much younger and easier to scare. When going into the…
