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October 18, 2019

Tuscaloosa @ Nashville Film Festival

Nashville Film Festival Coverage via Jason Sparks, Our Man in Nashville The lead actor in Phillip Harder’s Tuscaloosa is a young man by the name of Devon Bostick. He’s rail-thin, his head seemingly large...

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October 17, 2019

SCREAM, QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET @Nashville Film Festival

Nashville Film Festival Coverage via Jason Spark, Our Man in Nashville Before watching Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street, it’s best to have seen the movie about which this doc was made, specifically...

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October 16, 2019

ONLY @Nashville Film Festvial

Nashville Film Festival coverage via Jason Sparks Our Man In Nashville Sometimes history repeats itself, in peculiar ways. At last year’s NIFF, I found myself drawn to one movie for no other reason than the...

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October 15, 2019

Burning Cane @Nashville Film Festival

Nashville Film Festival coverage via Jason Sparks Our Man In Nashville Sugarcane, the plant that yields sugar, is regularly burnt before the sugar is harvested. There are multiple reasons for this—it increases the yield of...

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October 14, 2019

Graveyard Shift Shorts @ Nashville Film Festival

Nashville Film Festival coverage via Jason Sparks Our Man In Nashville GRAVEYARD SHIFT SHORTS 1—FRAYED In what Stephen King termed “The Land of Ago,” the feature film was not the only thing a viewer saw...

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October 13, 2019

Cool Daddio @ Nashville Film Festival

Cool Daddio: The Second Youth of R Stevie Moore Nashville Film Festival coverage via Jason Sparks Our Man In Nashville It is, after all, the Nashville Film Festival. There are going to be films relevant...

Austin / Austin City Limits Music Festival / music

October 11, 2019

Anna’s Column on the Austin City Limits

Anna’s column on this year’s Austin City Limits Music Festival is up on the Dallas Morning News website. Read it here.

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October 5, 2019

Jojo Rabbit @ Nashville Film Festival

Nashville Film Festival Coverage via Jason Sparks Our Man In Nashville The argument goes something like this: the problem with blockbuster, big-budget, “popcorn movies”—or, as they’re usually called now, superhero movies—is that they are or...

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September 10, 2019

Looking forward to JUDY

The new biopic about Judy Garland, starring Renée Zellweger, looks like it’s going to be AMAZING, tho it looks like living with the actual Judy Garland wasn’t much fun.