Tweet Many filmmakers including world masters Wim Wenders and Jean-Luc Godard credit film criticism as a developmental chapter towards their careers as directors. Veteran director and actor Paul Mazursky (Enemies: A Love Story, Moscow on the Hudson) turns their process…
Get Me Ron Perlman! Colin Firth in talks to Join Spike Lee’s ‘Old Boy’
Tweet The 2011 holiday movie season with all its awards-oriented releases is unfolding in rapid fashion but the “Get Me Ron Perlman” column, the only casting news column named after character actor par excellence Ron Perlman, remains focused on future…
The Morning Feed: Eddie Murphy Out, Billy Crystal In as Oscar Host
Tweet Stateside hipsters are counting the days to the November 21 opening of Gaga’s Workshop, the dedicated holiday space crafted by Lady Gaga and Nicola Formichetti at the Madison Avenue flagship of Barneys New York. Until then, the fine fashionistas…
‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’ Review: Elizabeth Olsen breaks out in suspenseful cult drama
Tweet Martha Marcy May Marlene Rated R Running Time: 101 Minutes Grade: A Perfect ambiguity brings filmmaker Sean Durkin’s suspenseful drama about a young woman (Elizabeth Olsen) escaping an abusive cult to a daring close that leaves audiences wondering…
‘Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football’ filmmaker Rashid Ghazi travels to Dearborn, Mich. to make a documentary about high school sports but exits with story of deep-rooted patriotism
Tweet Drive Interstate 75 through the brown fields of industrial Detroit and you’ll see countless stories of hardship and struggle just beyond your car windshield. Rashid Ghazi, a Chicago-based sports marketing and TV consultant, looks beyond the despair and tells…
‘Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football’ Review: Stories of tolerance and football come together on a high school field in engaging doc ‘Fordson’
Tweet Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football North Shore Films Unrated Running Time: 92 minutes Grade: B REVIEW BY STEVE RAMOS For Fordson High School football players in the working class section of Dearborn, Michigan, the big game involves hunger, thirst…