ELLA BRENNAN: COMMANDING THE TABLE Director Leslie Iwerks World Premiere at the New Orleans Film Festival Run time 96 min At the age of ninety, Ella Brennan stands in her kitchen looking like a captain guiding her crew through a storm. She checks each plate,...
Wow, two days over are officially over in the 27th New Orleans film festival and already we have seen so many amazing films. With six days to go, I can’t imagine what we still have in store for us. Since we saw 5 films today, I won’t go into a ton of detail, but...
Crimespree Goes to the Red Carpet Yup, you read that right. Your dedicated Crimespree reporters Bryan VanMeter and Kyle Joseph Schmidt are headed to the red carpet. It's all for you, readers. We sacrifice so much. All kidding aside, we have been bestowed the honor...
AUTHOR-THE J.T. Leroy STORY Directed by Jeff Feuerzeig In 2006, the New York Times exposed the writer J.T. Leroy, author of Sarah and a volume of short stories, as a hoax. The work actually came from the pen of Laura Albert, a 40-year old sex phone operator. It...
EIGHT DAYS A WEEK-THE TOURING YEARS Directed by Ron Howard We saw the film at 10:30 am on a Monday morning. It had quite a large audience in the mid-sized multiplex theater--all people over sixty. People who remember the Beatles and people who were free at that...
SNOWDEN Directed by Oliver Stone Written by Kieran Fitzgerald Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Qunito, Rhys Ifans, Nicholas Cage Much of the "drama" in SNOWDEN occurs during the hours he was holed up in a hotel room in Hong...
