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Mister Webster defines the word baroque as “ornate, fancy, and very elaborate” with the words curlicued, showy, and wedding-cake thrown into the description for good measure. I cannot think of a [...]

Better horror movies tend to have a secondary theme that feeds its main premise. JAWS is about the hunt for a man-eating shark, but it’s also about Chief Brody learning to assert his authority. [...]

For genuine haunting, no ghost or goblin can compete with “the love that got away.” Whether it’s Gatsby pining for Daisy via her flashing green light across the bay or Harry Chapin stashing that [...]

Sometimes the Oscars get things spectacularly right. Last night was one of those times. They had a lot to be proud of in both the awards they doled out as well as the show in general. And in [...]

Oscar predictions can be tricky. The contest in each category usually comes down to two real contenders, but the Academy is often fickle and can confound. Lately, there have been few sweeps. The [...]

The live-action shorts that the Academy tends to nominate consistently veer towards the serious. Very serious. More and more so over the last few years. The subjects tend to be hot button issues [...]

When you wish that a short film was a long film, you know that you’ve witnessed something special. That was the feeling I had when I watched Abby Pierce in the short GO AHEAD, GRAB TIME BY THE [...]

Even if you’ve never met filmmaker Layne Marie Williams, you can feel her unbridled enthusiasm in every frame of the short films she’s made. The multi-hyphenate – writer, director, producer, [...]