It wasn't wise to borrow money from local mobster Tony Davolio (Chazz Palminteri), but brothers Mickey (Jon Abrahams) and Jackie (Mark Webber) didn't have a cho...
The horrors of war are often told through male-centric narratives. Heroes who go through hell on the battlefield, brothers who sacrifice everything for each oth...
Buffalo sports fans are die-hard. Go to most big cities across America and you'll find a Queen City backers' bar of ex-pats communing to enjoy (and, this past d...
We never meet the narrator (Nick Offerman) of Bob Byington's film Frances Ferguson. This isn't necessarily a bad thing or uncommon, but I couldn't shake the ide...
Few movie stars have an affability as potent as Will Smith's. At 51, it's an asset he and his collaborators, big and small alike, have bet big (and mostly won b...
It's an unorthodox but sweetly unsurprising premise: the cancer-stricken Emma (Petey J. Gibson) demands her wife Josie (Nika Ezell Pappas) meet someone new so s...
There's a joke told about a third of the way through Mac Cappuccino's film Malaisia. It's bad. Jay Schmidt is the one laying out the excessive amount of exposit...
There was a time when it seemed music might have the power to change the world—or at the very least, move the needle. The knee-jerk reaction to such a statement...
Francis Ford Coppola had already cemented his Hollywood legacy after a string of critical and commercial successes in the 1970s, but discussion of his filmograp...
For every viewer there are forms of storytelling, visual expression that are more familiar than others. The references, codes, cinematic language of foreign fil...
