Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Nicolas Cage’s career has had a see saw swing ever since he took the Oscar for his alcoholic tragic in Leaving Las Vegas. For every The Rock and Face Off there’s been the dire dross of substandard supernatural or splatter …
Tackling the traducing of tertiary education funding via a caper comedy pays off in Sydney Sibilia’s debut feature I CAN QUIT WHENEVER I WANT TO.
State funding cuts combined with faculty politics finds genius neurobiologist researcher, Pietro, ousted from his …
SCAMPIA’S GOLD may sound like a seafood spaghetti western but it’s an inspiring tale of a committed man trying to deter the errors of the past being visited on the youth of the present.
Like a gritty Neapolitan Karate Kid, …
LUCKY US is the title of Amy Bloom’s new novel and lucky us that we have such a writer in our midst, a writer of such elegant prose, a creator of such memorable characters, an advocate of truth, beauty and …
The immigrant experience won out thematically as the opening night film for this year’s Lavazza Italian Film Festival, but two films on the program about contemporary Italy and the people who choose to stay and take the problems head on …
Ethan Hawke is the motion picture poster boy de jour starring in both the impressive PREDESTINATION and Richard Linklater’s brilliant BOYHOOD. Both projects are about time travel- the former speculative, the latter real and documented, the cinematic equivalent to time …
The opening night presentation of the Lavazza Italian Film Festival is MARINA, the biopic of singer, songwriter, accordion player Rocco Granata who had the phenomenal one hit wonder with the song that lends the film its title back in 1959.…
With a guitar lick reminiscent of Ry Cooder’s theme for Paris, Texas, this production of THE GOD OF HELL sonically signifies that you are in Sam Shepard country and you just know that this isn’t going to be a …
The invention of the motion picture and the motor car seem to have been a self-combusting occurrence.
Symbiotic twins that spawned mass market industries, kino and the car have been inseparable on our screens for over a century.
Whether it’s …
Magic has been a mainstay in Woody Allen’s work from the beginning. From stand-up comedy skits through short stories and into his movies, magic, hypnosis, séances and showbiz chicanery have appeared with regular occurrence.
A few pictures ago, he played …