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DVD Review: ‘Memory of the Dead’
It’s all just a way to string along the plot to the big reveal which is about the only thing that leaves an impression; the title is all you’re bound to remember.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘3 Days to Kill’
There’s a clue that you’re watching a Luc Besson film. It comes in the form of a bazooka showing up in the first 10 minutes.
Read More »Athena Film Festival (2014) Movie Review: ‘American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs’
Grace Lee Boggs activist, writer, feminist is above all an evolutionary. In the documentary 'American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs' Boggs suggests the hope for America lies within each of us. First, we must care about our own well being, then we must demonstrate our care for our fellow citizens. In that way lies our own peace and fulfillment.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ – The Criterion Collection
Could Criterion release a new version merely four years later that could better that presentation? Not really.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘A Field in England’
Unfortunately, A Field in England only results in blank-faced screen-watching, never living up to the hype.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ – The Criterion Collection
I highly recommend getting this as soon as you can.
Read More »Athena Film Festival Movie Review: ‘Rebel’
A woman fighting during the Civil War? What is the likelihood that she would have donned trousers and taken up arms to fight with the South or the North? Rebel, directed by Maria Agui Carter reveals how this could happen and in fact did relating the adventures of Loreta Velazquez based on her forgotten memoir, 'The Woman in Battle'.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘Thief’ (1981) – The Criterion Collection
A stellar neo-noir gem just aching to be snatched up.
Read More »Athena Film Festival 2014: A Celebration of Women and Leadership
2014 Athena Film Festival rocks and inspires at Barnard College in February. Award recipients Callie Khouri, Kasi Lemmons, and Keri Putnam were on hand for the festivities.
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