Of the dozens of shorts screened at this year’s San Antonio Film Festival, some really stood out in terms of execution, creative vision, and dramatic heft. Here’s another selection of compelling films I saw at the...
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Kurt Gardner
“The Doo Dah Man” – San Antonio Film Festival movie review
A silver-tongued convict on the run from the cops meets a young man trying to escape his past, and together they form an unlikely alliance on the highways of Texas. The year is 1980, and Jake (Will Brittain) seems to...
San Antonio Film Festival: Short Films – Part One – travel film festival reviews
A variety of entertaining and provocative short films are being screened at this year’s San Antonio Film Festival from filmmakers all over the world. So far, I’ve had the opportunity to see about 22 of them, and I’ve...
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation – Los Angeles movie review
Action-packed, but mostly risible, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation is probably the most disappointing offering of the five-movie spy thriller franchise starring Tom Cruise. It doesn’t help that the US-made movie series...
Pauline Adamek
“Southpaw” – Los Angeles movie review
One of the most highly anticipated films of the year, Antoine Fuqua’s Southpaw arrives with Jake Gyllenhaal bulked up and ready to spar, but alas — Kurt Sutter’s cliché-ridden screenplay adds up to little more than...
