When the late Carl Walker asked me to contribute to one of his productions of Native Tongues — where New Orleans playwrights wrote New Orleans characters, to be performed by New Orleans actors — I had a shy request: Could I try writing something for Carol Sutton? Carol, whom I never had met but admired […]
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New Orleans Film Festival Big Easy Movie Reviews: Inspector Ike
November 20, 2020“It’s the Saturday Night Mystery Movie. You’ve had a long week. Now, it’s time to kick back and enjoy a comforting tale of murder. So, pop some popcorn, and warm up a fresh pot of chili. Because an all-new Inspector Ike starts right about now.” Imagine this movie from the 2020 New Orleans Film Festival: […]
Big Easy Movie Revews: The Craft: Legacy
October 31, 2020Is The Craft: Legacy a new cult classic or does it have a premise that’s light as a feather and a plot that’s stiff as a board? “Ya’ll witches ready?” Right on time for Halloween comes the new Craft film (hereafter simply known as Legacy). The original film, The Craft, which came out 24 years […]
Big Easy Movie Reviews: Black Box
October 28, 2020It’s always great to watch and review a film made in New Orleans, Louisiana. Luckily, with Black Box, we can do just that. “Welcome to the Blum House” is a collection of eight current and upcoming films from Blum House on the Amazon Prime video service. In the time of COVID-19, when theaters are dying […]
Big Easy Movie Reviews: The Mortuary Collection
October 27, 2020“Dark, twisted, and awesome, you say? Well, let’s see how this one grabs you.” Sometimes there’s not a lot that excites me about horror movies. Of all the genres, horror has the hardest time making quality films. Is it a source of untapped potential, or are the best, most original horror films behind us? I’ve […]
Big Easy Film Reviews: Cuties
September 15, 2020In a sense, I am not the audience for this film. I am a white, middle-class, 30s, American male. The commonalities I share with a Muslim French-Senegalese female movie director are limited. Nevertheless, film is an art form that should broaden our world: gender, class, culture, language, religion, are all grist for the mill. A […]
Big Easy Movie Reviews: The Vast of Night
July 13, 2020The Vast of Night is primarily the story of two people, Everett Sloan (played humorously by Jake Horowitz), a charismatic night-time disc-jockey, and nerdy innocent, adorable, Fay Crocker (played by Sierra McCormick) a young switchboard operator in 1950s Cayuga, New Mexico. Cayuga is a small town without much going on except a high-school basketball game […]
Big Easy Movie Reviews: Vivarium – I Hate This Very Good Movie
June 15, 2020“Vivarium: an enclosure, container, or structure adapted or prepared for keeping animals under semi-natural conditions for observation or study or as pets; an aquarium or terrarium.” – Oxford Dictionary Vivarium is a different kind of movie. It’s an indie film and all that entails. The greatest thing about independent cinema is that it doesn’t […]
Big Easy Movie Reviews: Color Out of Space
May 28, 2020Color Out of Space is the story of a man, Nathan Gardner (Nicholas Cage), his alpaca farm, and a meteorite. It begins in the beautiful woods of Massachusetts, on the far outskirts of the town of Arkham. We see the primordial forest, the idyllic stream, and an attractive Wiccan girl, Lavinia Gardner (Madeleine […]
Neaux Reel Idea: Our Stay-Home Movie Mixtape, Vol. 1
March 22, 2020Troubling times we’re living in, for sure. New Orleans has essentially shut down to halt the spread of COVID-19, the global pandemic that separates the true leaders from the whiny privileged, and that obliterated any doubt about the intentions of a certain 1% of people. Bars are closed, gatherings are greatly restricted, and life as […]
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