Mary Elizabeth Winstead is no stranger to performing as a survivor on film. A while back, she portrayed an alcoholic in Smash, a kidnappee in the midst of a global […]
Category: Film
Southern (Not Quite Fried) Hollywood
October 1, 2018Back in the good old days of the #TeamNOLAFilm podcast, where I hosted four episodes of conversation amongst the best and brightest of our local film industry, Hollywood South was […]
Mike Mauls the Movies: The Moose Head Over the Mantel
September 25, 2018Welcome to today’s first and (likely last) edition of Big Easy Magazine’s Mike Mauls the Movies, where I ask and even sometimes answer the burning questions, “When is a good […]
Fahrenheit 11/9: Big Easy Magazine Goes Cinematic
September 20, 2018This Wednesday, Big Easy Magazine hosted its first movie event, a special early screening of Michael Moore’s new movie Fahrenheit 11/9. The film is about America in the age of Trump, and […]
Neaux Reel Idea: THE GOD INSIDE MY EAR Review
September 18, 2018Few of the images in the opening montage of inner character visual turmoil play any kind of hand in the narrative of The God Inside My Ear. At one moment, […]
The Progressive’s Weekend: 9/14 – 9/16
September 14, 2018Past policies, beyond bickering and right at the doorstep of our inner child, this is The Progressive’s Weekend! Primary elections and mid-terms. Hurricanes and expose’s. So much in the news […]
Neaux Reel Idea: MENAGERIE (by Mighty Brother) Review
September 11, 2018In the first few moments of the music video for Menagerie by Mighty Brother – local New Orleans indie rock band – I was severely concerned. The picture was of […]
Neaux Reel Idea: NOT IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD Review
September 4, 2018“The system is broken.” We hear and read the above line all the time, in reference to malpractices and injustices within government and business, when it seems there is no […]
Neaux Reel Idea: FORGOTTEN BAYOU Review
August 28, 2018Being a Cajun myself – one associated with the culture through last name and my father’s past memories – the story of Bayou Corne, LA as presented in Forgotten Bayou is particularly heartbreaking. It represents a community that’s getting farther and farther away from me and a way of life I’ll never quite understand.
THE Events! for August 24th – 26th
August 24, 2018Is it Friday? Again? Indeed. The end of the work week for a few, just another day for those over-worked folks who work weekends and/or unemployed folks. The artifice of “the weekend” gets us through with the promise of relaxation, despite the fact that we could just be mellow all the time, for that is within us all along.
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