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Daily Archives: April 9, 2023
Classic Film Review: If Only Every Oscar Winner Held up as well as “The Sting” (1973)
In the small town where I grew up, in the BFE borderlands of Virginia and N.C., I lived within walking distance of a downtown cinema that opened and closed a few times in my childhood, giving up the ghost completely … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Old Scores and Old Debts are settled in “Devil’s Hollow”
“Devil’s Hollow” is a downbeat, torpid thriller of the Appalachian Gothic persuasion. A few solid performances and a strong sense of place never quite lift this formulaic melodrama out of the funk it wallows in. Shuler Hensley stars as Bobby … Continue reading
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