Discussing Serial Killers at Christmas
With the holidays coming up fast, you can read Anna’s column in the Dallas Morning News today about the unusual way her family avoids political strife at the holiday dinner tables. Update: The Lizzie...
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FAYE @Nashville Film Festival 2021
by Jason T Sparks It is entirely possible that, 20 or 30 years from now, kids will be sitting in a UCLA Film School class reading their textbooks—assuming that they’ve finally moved on from...
See You Then @Nashville Film Festival
by Jason T Sparks What happens in the film See You Then is nothing alien, if you’re a full-grown adult who has lived any kind of life at all: two adult human beings, who...
PETITE MAMAN @Nashville Film Festival
by Jason T Sparks Her name is Josephine Sanz, or, as she would say it, elle s’appelle Josephine Sanz. She is a young French lady, all of about ten years old, and she exudes...
FABLE OF A SONG @ Nashville Film Festival 2021
by Jason T Sparks Once in a great while, something happens: a documentary filmmaker will set out to make one film, and then circumstances dictate that the director is compelled to make an entirely...
OLD HENRY @ Nashville Film Fest 2021
by Jason T Sparks One of the last things I expected to see at the toney, artsy-fartsy Nashville Film Festival was a Western. Maybe I was misdirected in my thinking: American cinema has pointed...
Spoopy vs Spooky
Anna’s column on the appeal of Halloween: spooky vs spoopy can be read in the Dallas Morning News today if you click here.
80s Music Is For Adulting
You can read Anna’s column on the Austin City Limits Music Festival, Duran Duran and all the driving she does to take care of momma in the Dallas Morning News today. Click here to...
The Trip: Relationship Workshop
Relationships are hard, especially when both parties want the other one dead. That’s the premise of the fast, and darkly witty new Norwegian film The Trip, which burns as quick and hot as a...
Wright’s Trip to Soho
The fabulous new film “Last Night In Soho” screened as the first secret screening of Fantastic Fest, 2021. Being on a strict “no spoilers” diet about the beautiful and complex film, it might be...
