I first saw the 1954 version of A Star Is Born on the big screen; I got to see it as part of a sidebar program at the Chicago International Film Festival several years ago, and despite its length (the restored cut is just 4 minutes shy of three hours long), I was riveted. Judy Garland's Vicki Lester ...
Review: Blaze
Ethan Hawke has been nominated for an Oscar four times, twice for writing and twice for acting. This year, he may just add another for his spellbinding performance in Paul Schrader's gut-wrenching First Reformed. Though not recognized to the same degree, Hawke has also spent his fair share of ...
Review: White Boy Rick
This is a crosspost with Third Coast Review. The most compelling part of White Boy Rick, the true story of a Detroit teenager who became a hustler, an FBI informant and a drug kingpin all before the age of 16, comes at the very end of the film, when a brief epilogue addresses Rick Wershe, Jr.'s ...
Wedding by the Lake
When you grow up in the Midwest, it's not uncommon to ask friends or even extended family what they're up to for the weekend and get in response something to do with "heading to the lake house." Whether it's Michigan or Wisconsin, having a lake house (or regular access to one) in a neighboring state ...
Toronto, Here I Come
For the longest time, whenever I'd sit back and think about what a dream job might look like, it always included one thing: attending film festivals. From the moment I stumbled into one in Indianapolis over a decade ago, I was smitten. Lots of movies? In one place? With all kinds of other people who ...
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