The Screen Scene Home Video Edition: Volition
I’m a sucker for films about time loops and time travel paradoxes. They have become a sub-genre over the past 20 years. You know you’re a serious movie nerd when the phrase “quantum entanglement”...
View ArticleThe Screen Scene Home Video Edition: Palm Springs
Day Break (2006). Source Code (2011). Edge of Tomorrow (2014). Happy Death Day (2017). 3 Feet Ball & Souls (2017). Happy Death Day 2 U (2019). The Incredible Shrinking Wknd (2019)....
View ArticleThe Screen Scene Home Video Edition: Greyhound
Tom Hanks is a lover of World War II history. His passion for the subject has resulted in films and mini-series depicting the ground wars in the European and Asian theaters of combat. In 1998, he...
View ArticleThe Screen Scene: Perry Mason Season Finale
Perry Mason has been part of the American cultural landscape for nearly 90 years. Erle Stanley Gardner published the first novel about the criminal defense attorney extraordinaire in 1933. Over the...
View ArticleThe Screen Scene: Unhinged
A number of years ago I had a friend in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. He told me I should never argue with someone over a parking space, and I should never make obscene gestures at someone...
View Article“NewsNation” prepares to launch September 1, utilizing stories from Nexstar...
COLUMBUS, Ga (WRBL)- The new month will bring America’s news consumers a new alternative for national news. WRBL News 3’s parent company Nexstar is launching “NewsNation.” The new show will profile...
View ArticleThe Screen Scene: Fantasia Festival 2020 Roundup – Part 1
Late summer and fall always mean one thing in the film world: festivals. From Fantastic Fest in Austin to the Toronto International Film Festival to the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, this...
View ArticleThe Screen Scene: Fantasia Festival 2020 Roundup – Part 2
This is the second installment of my series examining films showcased at the 2020 Fantasia International Film Festival. I’m devoting three weeks of coverage to their slate of films, and it’s still no...
View ArticleThe Screen Scene: Made Men
I know exactly where I was on the afternoon of September 21, 1990. I went to my law school classes and raced to a matinee showing of director Martin Scorsese’s brand-new gangster epic, Goodfellas. I...
View ArticleThe Screen Scene: The Swerve
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage. Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved. (Bullet with Butterfly Wings, 1995) It’s as if Billy Corgan and Smashing Pumpkins were...
View ArticleThe Screen Scene: New York Film Festival, Part 1
The 58th annual New York Film Festival is going high- and low-tech to deliver its slate of fall awards contenders. During the COVID-19 edition of the festival, film lovers can attend through the...
View ArticleThe Screen Scene: The Wolf of Snow Hollow
Before I became the host of The Screen Scene, I was the content programmer for the Way Down Film Festival based out of Columbus, Georgia. I watched hundreds of short films each year to assemble a...
View ArticleThe Screen Scene: New York Film Festival Part 2
Two weeks ago on The Screen Scene, I reviewed a couple of stellar new films from the 58th annual New York Film Festival. After briefly hitting the pause button to give you a scary recommendation for...
View ArticleThe Screen Scene: New York Film Festival Part 3, The Disciple
The 58th annual New York Film Festival has come and gone. On previous episodes of The Screen Scene, I discussed a few of my festival favorites – Nomadland, Mangrove, and MLK-FBI – as well as one...
View ArticleThe Screen Scene: Sound of Metal
Fall usually means the beginning of Oscar season. This time of year, the summer blockbusters hand the multiplexes over to the prestige dramas. Although there were no summer blockbusters in the year...
View ArticleThe Screen Scene: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Before I begin my review for the week, I’d like to answer a question that I’m frequently asked by viewers: how can we track down the movies that are discussed on The Screen Scene? With all the Video...
View ArticleThe Screen Scene: The Midnight Sky
It’s the year 2049. Some type of catastrophic nuclear event has just occurred and people are fleeing in helicopters to out run the clouds of radioactive fallout spreading across Earth. Dozens of...
View ArticleThe Screen Scene: Wonder Woman 1984
Ever since Warner Brothers announced that Wonder Woman 1984 would premiere on HBO Max on the same day it hits theaters across the United States, the film has been under a microscope. Industry experts...
View ArticleThe Screen Scene: News of the World
From Greek mythology to the western novels of Larry McMurtry, storytellers have chronicled the adventures of men making epic journeys, enduring great hardships and struggling to return to home and...
View ArticleThe Screen Scene: One Night in Miami
On the night of Feb. 15, 1964, a young boxer named Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston to become the new Heavyweight Champion of the World. The title bout was held in Miami. Later that evening, the...
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