Kate Bush’s “new” album ‘Director’s Cut,’ a track-by-track review
Back when I had a weekly space of print in my college paper, Florida International University's "The Beacon," I had the chance to preview...
Once in a Lifetime presents a poignant history lesson – a...
In France, the classroom and other public places have become political. Public policies such as immigration and forbidding religious symbols in public places have...
‘Mysteries of Lisbon’ peels away layers of story to reveal infinity
Mysteries of Lisbon offers a cinematic statement like no other film the 21st century has offered. The theatrical release is actually an abbreviated version...
Faust IV review published in “Goldmine”
So it’s been like five years, but I’m back into getting published in music magazines, beginning with my review for the Capitol Vinyl Vaults...
Good Kill drowns its moral message on drone war with too...
There's nothing wrong with morally conscious movies. The problem arrives when morality overshadows character development and overtakes narrative. Good Kill is one of those films...
IndieEthos Insiders Tour 5: I, Daniel Blake breaks hearts with humanistic...
Politics and cinema has never mattered more to the British social-realist director Ken Loach. It was the election of a conservative government that brought him...
‘Sleeping Beauty’ offers ominous exploration of the prostitution of the female...
The last film I can remember having left me feeling as puzzled and intrigued as Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty was Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide...
Nico, 1988 an end-of-life drama of washed up rock star
There’s never been anything upbeat about dramas featuring protagonists addicted to heroin. The sad place where musician/model/actress Nico (born Christa Päffgen in Cologne, Germany)...
Starfucker and Casiokids break out of tiny stage with big sounds...
Note: This is but a quick and dirty summary of the night of the concert. More in-depth stories on both Casiokids and Starfucker will...
Something’s Shocking: Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures – A Miami Film...
Miami Dade College's 33rd Miami International Film Festival opens tomorrow and with it comes a series of exciting movies, some of which we...