“Krisha,” an emotionally touching family drama from writer-director-actor Trey Edward Shults, won the grand jury prize for narrative features at the SXSW Film Fest on Tuesday.
Jinx–Robert Durst: Stranger than Fiction
March 16, 2015 by
At the end of Sunday night’s final episode of HBO documentary series The Jinx, its subject, accused murderer Robert Durst, confesses off camera to criminal behavior.
Spectre: James Bond Film Gets Paid for More Positive Portrayal of Mexico
March 15, 2015 by
MGM and Sony, the producers of the new Bond film Spectre, are receiving up to $20 million in incentives for rewrites that depict positive aspects of Mexico
Maysles, Albert: Seminal Documentarian Dies at 88
March 6, 2015 by
Albert Maysles, the seminal documentary filmmaker and cinematographer died Thursday of natural causes. He was 88.
Oscar Impact: Still Alice, Julianne Moore, and the Box-Office
March 1, 2015 by
I am happy for Julianne Moore’s Best Actress Oscar, though I wish she won for a better film rather than this safe, mediocre, and middlebrow melodrama.
