Film and TV Reviews and Podcasts
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV134 – Commentary Track – Back to the Future Part II (1989) with Matt Hurt and Mike White For the first time ever, it’s an Obsessive Viewer Commentary Track! Play the movie at 01:39 mark in the podcast. In honor of Back to the Future day, Matt and Mike recorded […]
Documentary Feature / USA Directors: Jeremy Coon, Tim Skousen Featured Subjects: Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala, Jayson Lamb, Angela Rodriguez This review is part of my coverage of 2015’s Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis. Click here for more of my coverage of the festival. You can find my coverage of other Indianapolis area film and TV events here. Raiders! The Story […]
Documentary Feature / Festival Award Winner / USA Director: Jason Zeldes Featured Subjects: Donté Clark, D’neise Robinson, Molly Raynor, Deandre Evans This review is part of my coverage of 2015’s Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis. Click here for more of my coverage of the festival. You can find my coverage of other Indianapolis area film and TV events here. In […]
Narrative Feature / USA Director: Phil Allocco Writer: Phil Allocco This review is part of my coverage of 2015’s Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis. Click here for more of my coverage of the festival. You can find my coverage of other Indianapolis area film and TV events here. The Truth About Lies is a comedy about liars, love, and what […]
Documentary Feature / USA Director: David Manougian Featured Subject: Michael Nelms This review is part of my coverage of 2015’s Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis. Click here for more of my coverage of the festival. You can find my coverage of other Indianapolis area film and TV events here. The Big Lonely opens with a statement saying it is a documentary shot entirely by its main character with no production crew present. As the film’s subject Michael Nelms sets a fire, the viewer is instantly immersed into this story of a man isolated and alone in the wilderness for almost a decade.
This review is part of my coverage of 2015’s Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis. Click here for more of my coverage of the festival. You can find my coverage of other Indianapolis area film and TV events here. Art Appreciation was the first shorts block I got to see at Heartland this year. It was a collection of 6 short documentary films […]
Documentary Feature / USA Director: Andrew Jenks This review is part of my coverage of 2015’s Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis. Click here for more of my coverage of the festival. You can find my coverage of other Indianapolis area film and TV events here. On Halloween night 2001, a sports editor for the Columbia Tribune in Columbia, Missouri was murdered. The […]
Documentary Feature / USA Directors: Scott Christopherson, Brandon Barber This review is part of my coverage of 2015’s Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis. Click here for more of my coverage of the festival. You can find my coverage of other Indianapolis area film and TV events here. Peace Officer is a powerful documentary examining the escalating militarization of police forces […]
Narrative Feature / Special Presentation / USA Director: Patricia Riggen Writers: Mikko Alanne, Craig Borten, Jose Rivera, Michael Thomas, Hector Tobar This review is part of my coverage of 2015’s Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis. Click here for more of my coverage of the festival. You can find my coverage of other Indianapolis area film and TV events here. Patricia […]
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV133 – Sci-Fright Frenzy at the Artcraft, Netflix Picks (The Source Family and The Crow), The Walking Dead, and New Fall TV This week Tiny and I share our thoughts on a couple of random picks from our Netflix lists. Tiny’s pick was The Source Family, a documentary about a […]
Last weekend I had one of the most uniquely satisfying theater-going experiences of my life. The Historic Artcraft Theatre in Franklin, Indiana was hosting a two-day film fest featuring seven science fiction horror films. With two films screening Friday night and the other five screening Saturday, it was the perfect opportunity for me to become acquainted with the theater.
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV132 – The Martian, Sicario, Better Call Saul, The Walking Dead, The Den, and Returning Fall Television (Guest: Robert Fekkes) This week Tiny and I welcome our friend Robert Fekkes back for his 6th appearance on the podcast! This time, we talked about Ridley Scott’s latest film The Martian. In […]
In Denis Villeneuve‘s latest movie Sicario, Emily Blunt plays Kate, an idealistic FBI agent recruited to an interagency task force working to take down a drug cartel on the US/Mexico border. As the task force moves closer to the objective, Kate begins to question the tactics they use and her purpose within the unit.
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV131 – Special Ep – What’s Eating Dad? – Writer/Director Michael Goldburg and Producer Dave Chan In this special episode of the podcast, Tiny and I chat with Michael Goldburg and Dave Chan, the men behind comedy/horror short film What’s Eating Dad?, which will be the opening short for our […]
Only a few years after Prometheus marked Ridley Scott‘s return to the sci-fi space genre, he’s back with an adaptation of Andy Weir’s breakout hard sci-fi novel The Martian (read my review on Obsessive Book Nerd here). The Martian takes a realistic look at survival on our barren celestial neighbor and showcases what humanity can accomplish when unified toward a […]
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