Little Annie Rooney stars Mary Pickford as the titular scamp and leader of a gang of young ruffians and street urchins who have found themselves in an embittered battle against a similarly tempered crew of rogues and rascals. While the...
The idea of recreational climbing is as foreign to me—someone too afraid to step off a ladder to clean the rain gutters—as a desert to a fish but I’m fascinated by what compels someone to do something so transgressive. George...
“The Silent Child” dir. Chris Overton Films, or art for that matter, are radical pieces of activism, promoting the ideals of their creators to a larger audience. Some films are more overt about the kind of change they intend to...
There are many films from 2017 I enjoyed and would like to spotlight. However, the mathematical restraints of a “Top Ten List” have limited me to only ten films. Here are some 2017 films I quite liked but didn’t make...
Nightmares can be a tricky thing to relay interestingly in conversation, let alone on film. So much of what makes nightmares scary doesn’t translate well when you’re recalling it to a friend or loved one. Slumber, the feature debut of...
1976’s Car Wash is a cinematic outlier, noteworthy for spawning a ubiquitous disco hit and hosting early film appearances from legendary comedians Richard Pryor and George Carlin (as well as a bevy of performances from notable character actors like Franklin...
For Rod Serling, the creator of Twilight Zone and Night Gallery, pathos isn’t so much a creative tool as it is the main reason for creating. There’s hardly ever a moment in a Twilight Zone episode in which Serling isn’t...
