“Halo” Launches to a Rocky Start, But There’s Reason to Hope (SXSW ‘22 Review)
I think that Halo, and I mean this in part as genuine praise but also to frame my disappointment, is the perfect show for a 12 year old little boy. Through two episodes it’s violent, but not gory. It has attractive performers, but is devoid of any real sense of sexuality. It has big ideas […]
“Facing Nolan” Catches the Nostalgia for a Simpler Era of Baseball (SXSW ‘22 Review)
I feel like a discussion of this film requires me to give you a little bit of context on the sort of baseball fan I am. When my son was born a month early, we both wore Yankees shirts as he left the NICU. For 6 – hopefully 7 – months every year baseball is […]
“Lost Angel” Ruminates on Loss and the Afterlife (Review)
I am a believer. To be clear, I am not someone who goes to church on Sundays, or even holidays. I don’t associate with any religion in particular, or what one may consider a fanatic. But I do believe in something. I believe our presence in this universe is more than a coincidental collision, something […]
“The Thief Collector” Is a Unique Story of True Love and Art Thievery (SXSW ‘22 Review)
The Thief Collector combines the best of both worlds of documentary filmmaking: insight into major concepts and small slices of life. At the forefront are Jerry and Rita Alter, a married couple who have since passed away, and the discovery that they stole a painting in 1985 — Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre,” one of the […]