“A Case of Greed” (Final Cut) – Stuck at Home 48 V
Greetings viewers! Team ‘Filmmaking Together, Safely Apart’ is back for our 3rd entry for the Stuck at Home 48hr Weekend challenge May 22-24th. With our team leader Eric Cheung along with Jeffrey Stewart, Sarah D.…
Stuck at Home 48 Trailer Mashup (Final Cut Version)
Over the past weekend, I with a group of fellow filmmakers competed in the Stuck at Home 48 Challange. We submitted an entry that was movie trailer mashup of ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ and…
Social Distancing Viewings – Lady Bird (2017)
Welcome to Social Distancing Viewings (SDV)! In my best effort to help fellow movie lovers cope with the current situation I along with friends will provide commentary for movies/shows/other forms of media! We’ll be looking…
The Top 25 Films of 2018
Much like the past few years, 2018 felt far longer than a single year filled yet again with extreme socio-political absurdity, strife, and turmoil but then all came to a seemingly abrupt and unceremonious end.…
CUAH Media Film Awards for 2017
Whew, hey, give yourself a pat on the back: you made it through 2018 awards season! Congrats to all the “winners,” nominated works and talent. Now then, onto the fun stuff. After honoring my favorite…
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The CUAH Media Awards For the Movies of 2016
Once again that time has come to evaluate the roster of movies from the last calendar year in the only way we know how…
Sundance Film Festival ’16: Premiere Weekend
Greetings from in the middle of the great snowy Rocky…
The Top 60 Movie Moments That Defined The 60’s: Part 3
And we’re at the halfway point in this generation defining…
Scenery Theory: On Depiction and Intent
Clint Eastwood’s latest war drama American Sniper is breaking box-office records in…
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2018 Sundance Film Festival Report
Happy Belated New Year! I haven’t posted in quite awhile it seems. I’m still watching movies of course just having trouble getting down…
Film Review: Song to Song
The cinematic Maestro conductor plays another symphony of emotions that…
Film Review: Knight of Cups
Koyaanisqatsi: (In the Hopi Language) A life out of balance…
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The Top 25 Films of 2017
From depths of the seemingly bottomless pit of absurdity, insanity, and strife that was 2017 came forth madness, hardship, struggle, social upheavals,…
The Top 25 Films of the 21st Century (2001-present)
With a New York Times article last month detailing their…
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Film Review: The Witch
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…
The Top 25 Best Movies of 2015
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…
Film Review: The Assassin
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…
Best of 2015, Thus Far…
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…
My Awards for the Movies of the Year
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…
Top 10 Documentaries of 2014
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…
The Top 60 Movie Moments That Defined The 60’s: Part 2
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…
Top 10 Supporting Performances of 2014
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…
Top 10 Lead Performances of 2014
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…
The Top 20 Movies of 2014
2014 has come and gone, another year in books, so as is movie reviewer tradition it is time to come up with a listing of the very best films that I saw in the past year. The end tally range from moody period-pieces to contemporary…