Posts Tagged ‘Alia Shawkat’
Film Review – Being the Ricardos
Through the 1950s, few television shows were as big as I Love Lucy. Viewers tuned in every week to see real life couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz navigate the hijinks of marriage. Even today, “Lucy and Ricky” are referenced as one of the classic…
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SIFF Interview – Ben Dickey – Blaze
Spencer interviews actor Ben Dickey from biographical drama Blaze at SIFF 2018.
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Film Review – Blaze (Second Take)
Blaze begins with a quote by Willie Nelson, solidifying Blaze Foley’s place in music history. Many people, or possibly most, like myself, have never heard of Blaze Foley. A fan of Blaze’s music, Ethan Hawke directed the film and co-wrote the screenplay with Blaze’s wife,…
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Interview – Ethan Hawke and Ben Dickey – Blaze
In the 1999 article “A Walking Contradiction: The Legend of Blaze Foley,” “Lost John” Casner described his friend to author Lee Nichols of The Austin Chronicle as “a fighter for the things he believed in. Frankly, sometimes when he’d had too much to drink, he…
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Film Review – Blaze
“This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender” says the etching around the body of the guitar owned by late singer-songwriter Blaze Foley, an enigmatic, sometimes infuriating, often obstinate figure in the Texas music world of the 1980s, when country was becoming cool and…
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Film Review – Green Room
A young punk rock group makes their way through the Pacific Northwest, playing shows in hole-in-the-wall bars to disinterested crowds. Money is low – they fill their van’s tank siphoning gas from other vehicles. The tour is on the rocks, and some suggest calling the…
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Film Review – May in the Summer
Most films that take place in the Middle East often serve to humanize the “other” to American audiences. Those weird Muslims and/or conservative Jews are not like us on the surface, but look, we’re all just the same underneath! This is kind of important considering…
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Film Review – Life After Beth
Again with the zombies… As we crawl through yet another year of the zombie fad where the undead wreak havoc on the living, along comes yet another iteration. The new movie Life After Beth is another of the comedic zombie stories we’ve gotten in recent…
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