Movie House - Delta College Public Radio

Paul Schrader wrote about films that give you a "transcendent" experience, which I thought about when I watched 2022's The Wonder.

On paper, The Last Duel should have been a critical and commercial slam dunk, but the execution made for a gigantic flop.

Steven Spielberg is probably the most important filmmaker of my lifetime and his latest film, The Fabelmans, is a cinematic memoir of his own movie history.

My relationship with the Knives Out films has been a rollercoaster, so when the sequel came out, I kept my expectations low just to see what would happen.

After 13 years, how does the Avatar sequel stack up to the visually groundbreaking original?

I've never particularly cared for mountain climbing, but I am a sucker for great animation and independent films.

Super hero movies function best as metaphors that explore something authentic about us as people. The sequel to Black Panther mourns the first film's star, Chadwick Boseman, while continuing to deal with real world issues in a fictional world.

My favorite fiction film from this year's Hell's Half Mile Film Festival was 2021's Poser, about a young woman on the fringes of the Columbus, OH art scene.

"If you want to write about humanity, write about a human." This principle is demonstrated perfectly in this documentary focusing on filmmaker David Siev and his family during quarantine.

My wife and I spent to the last weekend of September in Bay City attending the 16th annual Hell's Half Mile Film and Music Festival.