The Traverse City Film Festival, the brainchild of film maker, Michael Moore, takes place the last week of July. This was its seventh and biggest year with over 90 films being shown. Although there are a handful of more traditional films, the emphasis here is on...
Bryan Gruley is reporting that writer/director John Gray has purchased the film option for THE HANGING TREE, the second book in his Starvation Lake series. When Gracie McBride, the wild girl who had left town eighteen years earlier, is found dead in an apparent...
In later years I would recognize that Kevin Costner once made good films. Films like No Way Out, Revenge, Bull Durham, The Untouchables - guy won a directing Oscar for Dances With Wolves, even. But on my eighth birthday at the Pavillion Theater, Kevin Costner was not...
Directed by Errol Morris Perhaps if I’d seen this film on a day other than the one when Amy Winehouse died, I might have watched it in a totally different light. But I didn’t, and so its exploitation of a possibly insane woman over the course of ninety minutes wore a...
When word first came that Peter Berg was making a movie based on the BATTLESHIP board game, I was skeptical...no, that is not right, I was sneering with disbelief. But, sometimes we are wrong. Sometimes, one has to step up and admit that he/she jumped to conclusions...
“Mr. Bond, you appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season.” “I didn’t know there were seasons in space, Drax.” “You will only know winter.” I am a die hard James Bond fan. I’ll watch almost all the movies any time they’re on, and I champion the good...
