The shadowy and untold world between what we fully believe and the unexplained is scarier than anything in your well-worn campfire stories. A highly zealous puritan family in New England circa 1630 is banished from a large settlement and forced to live on their own…

With the best in narrative films of 2015 being spoken earlier its now time for the documentary format to have their day in the sun. Just as with the Narrative films the documentaries that shined brightest last year featured many various subjects and wide-ranging stories…

After getting a head-start on movies that may well be on my 2016 best of list at this year’s Sundance, and much thought and contemplation putting a closing all-encompassing closing thought on the recently departed year of films of 2015 is as it turns out…

I think I might’ve mentioned before but it always bares repeating that films help to serve as our time machines, giving the ability to journey into the past to give us long lost perspectives, ideas and emotions from ages ago. But rare is the film…

Having been radio silent for a long hiatus, as I gave myself a sort-of movie break and I have to pay those bills somehow, I figured I would make a list of the best of the Year thus far to catch up on the films…

With all the attention on all things movies tonight, I thought it would be fun to do my own roll call for the movies of the recent past year (Don’t know what to call them, The Jeff’s doesn’t really do the trick). My winners in BOLD, enjoy…

With all the things concerning fictional narrative films out of the way for 2014, lets get to the non-fictional ones as there were several to take in, discover and enlighten. Not unlike the fictional narratives many of the best Documentaries focused on the Now, what are…

We move on from Part 1 to Kubrick, Military Takeovers, Alienation, and Abstraction. A rather crowded line-up to be sure. Lets get started with empathizing with pedophilia! I apologize in advance. 50). Lolita Expresses Sexual Taboos With Unabashed Candor And Humor “How Did They Ever Make A…

Thursday was the leading characters, today it’s the supporting players that amplify the onscreen story by giving the main characters something to play off of. Engaging the audience a few more layers by revealing more dimensions and shadings of the leading characters, and thusly the…

An outstanding year for film usually means an outstanding one for performances as well. First up are the lead roles that acted as our surrogates through many diverse and engaging narratives. From recovering depressives to battling mid-life crisis’s to tracking high-risk terror suspects to psychotics…