
Entertainment journalist-editor (@hollywoodspin) focused on the offbeat side of independent film, short films & documentaries.
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Joined February 2008
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Screening November 10th-11th in Media, Pennsylvania:
A documentary about nine Vietnam veterans from Pennsylvania, narrated by another who is also a multiple @Steelers Super Bowl champ.
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Screening this week at various locations in Michigan: a documentary about a remarkable 2013 sedan.
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After a one-year pause, @IndieMemphis is back and so is filmmaker Andy Karpovsky.
His new film RIPTIDES Q&A screens tonight, Saturday November 7th.
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The "Blackout Ripper" briefly terrorized London during World War II.
Now comes INTO BLACK, a Texas indie drama inspired by those events that is part of the kickoff edition on November 7th of a new competitive event, the Addison Full Circle Film Festival.
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Micky Petrillo transitioned just before his 60th birthday in 2024.
On November 7th, CALL ME MICKY will screen in his home state of New Jersey at the Teaneck International Film Festival.
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Premiering November 7th at the St. Louis International Film Festival, by special invitation: HALF ORDER, a documentary about the city's beloved Chinese food establishments.
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Half the passengers on Ukrainian Airlines PS752 from Tehran to Kiev were Canadian.
Six years later, a Canadian filmmaker examines the terrorism that took the flight down in a feature documentary premiering November 6th at the Stratford Film Festival.
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An all-deaf cast and crew made the 44-minute dramatic short CRAB THEORY, premiering November 2nd at the Rehoboth Beach International Film Festival in Delaware.
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Billy B. Van was many things in the early 1900s, including a silent film studio owner and performer.
On Sunday November 1st, a long-lost film of his, 1919's VAN-AR-CHY, will screen in New Hampshire with a new, live original piano score by Bob Merrill.
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Short film SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TRUE BELIEVER is being expanded into a full feature.
To support that effort, a small town in Northern California is holding a special November 1st event.
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For filmmaker Mark Harris, who grew up in Hawaii, it all started when his mom mailed him a @StarAdvertiser article about @NFL opera singer Ta'u Pupu'a.
Next week, he brings the resulting short film back home to the Hawaii International Film Festival.
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The subject of this documentary is 101 and still kicking.
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Opening the New Orleans Film Festival October 22nd: feature documentary THE DEW DROP INN: RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE.
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Premiering October 18th at the Tulsa Underground Film Festival: feature documentary STRAWBERRY COLORED GLASSES.
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Locally produced and financed in Scottsdale, rom-com UNDERNEATH THE GLITTERY MOON premieres in the Arizona city October 15th.
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World premiering October 10th at the Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival: Steven Kastrissios' made-in-Albania fantasy epic SKYBREAKER.
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The plan initially was to hold a single Saturday evening screening.
But the response to this homegrown Louisiana film was so strong that they added a subsequent week's worth of shows.
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The moments are quieter in MAGAN'S FARE than they were in CAPTAIN PHILLIPS and full of subtlety. But Barkhad Adbi is once again in the middle of a life drama in which he steals the show.
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What's Elizabeth Taylor from CLEOPATRA doing on the dazzling poster for the 2026 Carmel International Film Festival, running October 1st-4th?
It's complicated.
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Opening the Sioux City International Film Festival October 1st:
A feature documentary about hometown photographer hero George Lindblade.
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