Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Awards season Oscar bait with a top drawer supporting cast for the Jewish kid who learns about racism via family history and what a classmate and friend is subjected to. November.

Netflix has this Oct. 7. Based on a best seller, intriguing, promising? Ok.

“Saloum” is a distinctly West African thriller about drug trade-connected mercenaries who escape from a military coup only to face their biggest test in a nature preserve in Saloum, Senegal. It’s crackling good long before it turns supernatural. And their … Continue reading →

“Hold Me Tight” is a beautifully mysterious French tale of grief, guilt, regret and madness. Adapting a play by Claudine Galea, actor-turned-director Mathieu Amalric (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”) finds exquisite melancholy in a story of a family that’s … Continue reading →

A family with a daughter deep into Wednesday Addams cosplaying shows up in a small midwestern city, and people start dying. Suicides, deaths that don’t look like suicides, heart attacks, always with the little girl giving somebody the evil eye, … Continue reading →

No, this one doesn’t star Kurt Russell and has nothing to do with hockey. This “Miracle” is a Romanian thriller involving cops and a nun. Pretty good, too. Is Mims, Fla. ready to read Romanian subtitles? Let’s hope so. MovieNation, … Continue reading →

Nothing like watching a “smart house runs amok” thriller on the morning of your latest data breach (Thanks, Netflix) to put you in the mood. “Margaux” is the story of a “Siri” with serious issues, and it goes like this. … Continue reading →

Pearce’s novelist went into seclusion after his book was blamed for triggering “the Knoxville shooter.” Alice Eve co stars in this gritty looking variation on a “Conspiracy Theory” theme. Sept. 23, in theaters and streaming.

“Simpson’s” fans might recognize the Sunsphere from the Knoxville World’s Fair of the 1980s, still standing and home of RealknoxvilleMusic.com these days. Hanging out tonight with Wayne Blledsoe on his show ” Miles to Go” as he plays from his … Continue reading →

You’d think there’d be a historical marker noting this town’s places in cinema history — Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and the Coen Brothers filming a movie in the boonies, Food City manager Mike Campbell co-founding a cinema empire out of … Continue reading →