Covering Music, Film and Pop Culture
BY JASON T SPARKS Making a documentary about an individual, when said individual has already died, presents challenges, not that said challenges are impossible to overcome; ask Ken Burns. But it’s entirely possible that...
BY JASON T. SPARKS To be a person who has seen movies, or has in fact lived in late 20th-early 21st century culture, is to have seen romantic comedies. They’ve been with us as...
By Jason T. Sparks Documentaries about an individual, much like biopics, need to function like an essay from a Freshman Comp English class–both need a thesis, a claim that the director is making about...
By Jason T Sparks Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera is predominantly in Italian, with about 5 to 10% of the dialogue in English; within the film, we learn a new and apparently unofficial Italian word...
Check out Anna’s Toxic Avenger review from Fantastic Fest over on Getreelmovies.com
We’re living through what has been one of the hottest years on record and are constant reports of extreme weather and dangerous flooding due to climate change. It’s all so overwhelming. What can a...
Here is Anna’s long piece on Primavera Sound and summer travel that appeared in the Dallas Morning News. Read all about seeing the band Ghost and a Gothic Cathederal on the same day AND...
You can read Anna’s column on the issue of music fans behaving badly over at the Dallas Morning News. Don’t make Miranda Lambert turn this concert around!
With alllllll of the things that happened at SXSW, like writing about worldbuilding for the Dallas Morning News, I don’t think I ever linked to the film reviews I did for GET REEL MOVIES...
