Muriels Hall of Fame, Class of 2019: It's A Wonderful Life

" Anyone can end up grappling their fate like George Bailey but it is the tiny town of Bedford Falls collectively striving for a future...

Review: The Souvenir/dir. Joanna Hogg

" While watching the film one is subsumed into its quiet intensity and grainy beauty, urged to lean in closer to the intimate spaces ...

Notes From Oberhausen Short Film Festival

Notes From Oberhausen Short Film Festival-- May 1-6 2019 Oberhausen, Germany   Throughout its sixty-five years, Oberhausen Short Film F...

Freeze Frame: when a moving picture stops moving

When I started writing film criticism my first editor commented on my use of tense: I moved between past and present effortlessly. I woul...

Oxford Film Festival 2019

Whenever I told people I was heading to Oxford Mississippi people would say " Faulkner ! Square Books ! Gus's Fried Chicken !"...

Sundance Notebook 2019: Filmmaker Magazine!

Lucky enough to head out to Sundance 2019, my third Sundance appearance! Sundance Notebook: Videogame Vibes, Cell Phones in Movies and t...

Sundance 2019

As I watch a video scroll across my feeds of a truck stuck in the snow getting towed off Main Street Park City while people ski past the ca...

2018: Ten Best Films Directed by Women

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Alt Awards: The Muriels & The WFCC

Alternative Oscar Noms are probably vital now more than ever as everyone slowly realizes that not everyone in the world is a white American ...