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Category: Film
Neaux Reel Idea (Special Edition): Django Unchained and Blowing Up the Oppressors
July 2, 2019With Quentin Tarantino’s latest and 9th feature film, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, releasing later this month, I thought this might be a good time to revisit a portion of his locally shot Southern epic, Django Unchained. For years, the finale of this movie about an ex-slave in the days before the Civil War […]
The Shark Lady: An Interview with Misty Talley
July 1, 2019From Zombie Shark to Mississippi River Shark to Santa Jaws, local filmmaker Misty Talley has carved out a most specific niche in horror and camp storytelling.
“…Has No Shadows”: An interview with Travis Bird of Shotgun Cinema
July 1, 2019I often find myself pondering on the state of moviegoing in New Orleans. We have some great programming (sometimes overlooked) but there’s always more to do. We have great venues, but not nearly enough (though they’re pretty wonderful). This is Hollywood South supposedly, and yet our film watching and appreciation culture could use some additional […]
Neaux Reel Idea: Child’s Play (2019) Review
June 23, 2019Could Child’s Play be that rare instance of an 80s remake that gets things right? Yes, it could be.
Neaux Reel Idea: Toy Story 4 Review
June 22, 2019Somehow, the meaning of Toy Story 4 is in itself as it stands now. And that’s as a truly excellent bookend to an arc started over twenty years ago.
Neaux Reel Idea: Fast Color Review
June 19, 2019I don’t think it’s fair to Fast Color to call it a “superhero” film. Not that the genre as a whole or even in part is derogatory, mind you, but in the case of this independent film, such a label almost diminishes its accomplishments to superficial points. Again, not that the genre is wholly superficial […]
Pride on Film: The New Louisiana LGBT Film Festival
June 17, 2019Seeking “to hear voices from all members of the LGBT Community and allies,” at the end of June the Louisiana LGBT Film Festival will launch on June 28.
Neaux Reel Idea: The Dead Don’t Die Review
June 16, 2019All through the movie, there’s this ho-hum calmness and stillness when discussing and investigating the escalating zombie incidents. It’s dry humor.
Neaux Reel Idea: Pause Review
June 15, 2019For all of recorded human history, women have mostly gotten the rotten end of the apple – not to make a reference to Adam & Eve, of course. In the Cypress made movie Pause, a middle-aged wife stuck in a painfully tedious, routine heavy, and unloved arranged marriage begins to imagine and yearn for personal […]
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