Category: Film & TV

‘Eternal Spring’ Wins Top Film Awards Despite CCP Interference—Q&A With Filmmaker Jason Loftus

Filmmaker Jason Loftus’s animated documentary “Eternal Spring” took two top awards following its North American premiere screening at the Hot Docs 2022 festival earlier this month. Having already won double prizes at its world premiere at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in March, the film’s success and impact on audiences is a testament to Loftus’s unwavering resolve…


Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘The Last Champion’

PG-13 | 2h 2min | Drama, Family, Sport | 2020 Before I’d seen 2020’s sports drama “The Last Champion,” I saw actor Cole Hauser on the movie poster smiling ear to ear and assumed it was a comedy. When I discovered it was a story of redemption, I was a little surprised yet intrigued. After…


Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Top Gun’: Top Gun’s Rotten Tomatoes Rating Sums up Everything Wrong With the World Today

PG | 1h 50m | Action, War, Romance | May 16, 1986 Having just reviewed “Top Gun: Maverick,” it’s apropos and high time to review the 1986 original. I remember seeing “Top Gun” with my buddy Steve when it first hit the theaters in ’86. We took Steve’s 17-year-old cousin Joshua: a classic, insouciant, gum-snapping, hyper-critical, too-cool-for-school, and…


Cinema Film Review: ‘The Colonel’s Playbook’

1h 2m | Biography, Documentary | 2021 Back in 1961, a well-to-do group of parents in the Fort Worth area put their heads together in order to figure out how to prepare their kids for Ivy League universities. These discussions led to the concept of a private preparatory school in the area that would facilitate…


When Giants Fall | Documentary

The ivory trade is a cruel business. Every 15 minutes an elephant is killed for its ivory. 65 percent of the continents elephants have been killed for their ivory in the last five years. Crime syndicates involved in gun, drug and human trafficking reap huge profits from the ivory trade. So do dangerous terrorist groups…


Cinema Documentary Review: ‘The Trump I Know’

1h 30m | Documentary | 2020 A very well-made and insightful documentary by Christian producer Joe Knopp filmed in 2020, will be shown on Epoch Times Cinema on May 15, 2022. It unveils many of the lesser-known facets of our 45th (and many would argue the legitimate 46th) president of the United States, Donald Trump….


Carb Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat | Film

The film traces the origins of our beliefs about healthful and unhealthful food. Experts from all over the world talk about the problems as well as short and long term solutions. Among the many experts in the film are authors like Gary Taubes, Mark Sisson, and Melanie Warner. Medical doctors such as David Perlmutter M.D.,…


Fred Ward, ‘Tremors’ Star and Golden Globe-Winning Actor, Dead at 79

Famed character actor Fred Ward, who appeared in films on television over a four-decade career, died over the weekend, according to his publicist. Ron Hofmann confirmed to entertainment magazine Variety that the Golden Globe-winning actor died on May 8 at the age of 79. No cause of death was revealed as per his family’s wishes. Ward…


Film Review: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’: Best Action Sequel of All Time

PG-13 | 2h 11m | Action | May 24, 2022 Finally. In “Top Gun: Maverick” we have an old-school, 1970s/80s/90s-quality summer blockbuster, like they used to make ’em—that’s also very possibly the best action movie sequel of all time. In fact, it’s safe to say the sequel outshines the original. Fans have waited 36 years for this, and…


Turner Classic Movie Film Festival 2022: The Old Movie Event of the Year

Commentary Since movie theaters reopened after the pandemic, many people may have felt no desire to go back. This April, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), the television station that has brought old movies to the masses since 1994, gave people a good reason to sit with strangers in the dark for the first time in two…