Horror soundtracks in the 90s were a thing of beauty. With the Grunge Generation arriving, Thrash and Death Metal thriving, […]
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SR at the 2020 Nashville Film Fest: ‘The Outside Story’ Is Pure Schmaltz, and That’s Not All Bad
‘The Outside Story’ is a NEIGHBORLY film that is equal parts schmaltz and predictability, but with a cast this charming and quirky, it’s difficult to hate.
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Nashville Film Fest 2020: Our Simplistic Preview
Music City Here we come! Virtually of course. These are just some of the films we are looking forward in this year’s 51st edition of the festival.
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A Simplistic Review: ‘Mr. Soul!’ Sings the Praises of an Unsung Hero
@Mrsoultheovie From 1968 to 1973, the public television variety show SOUL!, guided by the enigmatic producer and host Ellis Haizlip, offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics.
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A Simplistic Review: ‘We Got A Monkey’s Paw’ is Paw-some!
Things get hairy when Zack convinces Jakki to spend the day making wishes on a cursed Monkey’s Paw. Soon the two find themselves doing backflips trying to undo the cataclysmic series of events they’ve set off: Ghost brides, demon boxes, dead-y bears, oh my!
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A Simplistic Review: ‘Nail in the Coffin: The Fall and Rise of Vampiro’
But as we’ve learned in other docs like ‘Beyond the Mat’ and the story of ‘GLOW’ the fall is just as epic and mythic for many titans of the squared circle.
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Fantasia Fest 2020: ‘For the Sake of Vicious’ is More Treat, Than Trick
Directors Gabriel Carrer & Reese Eveneshen choose to be more direct with their tidy 81-minutes and gives us a violence-laden exploitation thriller that gets the job done.
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Fantasia Fest 2020: ‘Feels Good Man’ Harshes the Mellow
We live in a society where the most nefarious and unscrupulous have motives to take something and twist it into their visage and create their very own totem, symbol, or rallying cry.
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Fantasia Fest 2020: ‘The Paper Tigers’ Kicks it Old-School
‘The Paper Tigers’ the feature debut from Bao Tran, is BUSTING with heart, humor, nostalgia and of course some pretty cool fighting that blurs the lines between ‘damn, that was cool,’ and ‘geesh, that really looks like it hurt.’
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Fantasia Fest 2020: ‘#Shakespear’s Shitstorm’ Takes a Dump on Big Pharma, and Everything Else
First, a poem. There once was a guy from New York His religion said he couldn’t eat pork He studied […]
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