The time has come, once again, for the Atlanta Film Festival. My schedule will be a bit different, on account of having a work schedule that is more amiable to nighttime screenings- and weekends off- so it will be nice to have some normalcy return to my festival. Last year was a much needed respite from the stress of work and personal matters. This year, it will be my first […]
There are some pleasant surprises with the nominees for this year’s Georgia Film Critics Association awards, but also some not-so-pleasant snubs. There are still several I haven’t seen, though. Here are the nominees, what won, and my thoughts as a voting member. I hope you enjoy! This was a fairly impressive selection this year. 2023 Georgia Film Critics Association Awards Best Picture “American Fiction” “Barbie” “Godzilla Minus One” “The Holdovers” […]
It’s a couple of months later than I hoped, but my wrap-up episode of the 2025 Atlanta Film Festival is finally here. I explain where the podcast has been the past couple of months, rattle off some of my favorite films of the fest, as well as share interviews with director David Fortune, executive producer Xavier Two Lewis and actor Njema Williams (“Color Book”), writers Omar Epps and 2 Chainz […]
It’s interesting how this episode lined up with events around it. My guest and I had been planning for this episode for months, and we happened to have time for it shortly after one of its stars passed away. My guest is a first-timer to the podcast, my dear friend Dawn Echols, and the subject is George P. Costamos’s 1993 film, “Tombstone”, starring the late Val Kilmer. In addition to […]
When I began this tradition in 2003, my initial reason was so I could steam through the horror DVDs in my Netflix Queue. It’s been an interesting experiment that has led to the discovery of new and exciting genre favorites like the early Hammer classics, silent masterpieces like “Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages” and “Vampyr,” and the rediscovery of personal faves like “Friday the 13th: Part VI- Jason Lives.” I’ve […]
A decade after its first conception, and 42 years after the film that inspired it, Atlanta-area filmmaker-composer Brian Skutle is proud to release his fourth album, “Beyond the Infinite: A Musical Odyssey”. In 1999, Skutle was a student at Georgia State University when he composed “Beyond the Infinite,” a 3 1/2 minute work inspired by the music of Gyorgy Ligeti and the cinema of Stanley Kubrick as it collided in […]
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