Reviews

Photo by Mark Velasquez   Gunslingers and cowboys and frontier towns. Hard-ridden horses, saloon girls with hearts of gold, and sheriffs with shiny badges. Good vs. evil fighting it out…

Rebecca Zlotowski’s new film, A Private Life, is billed as a psychological thriller, but lest you be fooled by the advertising gods, this intriguing film is much more interested in…

The Great American Melodrama’s current show, The Super Trio, has everything you might expect it to have from its title: super heroes, super villains, super powers, super costumes, super sets. …

Sheepdogs is a quiet, emotional documentary that invites viewers into an experience for which they don’t need prior military knowledge to understand.  Through intimate storytelling, director Brian Knappmiller explores the…

Photos by Ryan Loyd, Rylo Media Design   A confession: I walked into Million Dollar Quartet, running now through March 8 at SLO REP, feeling somewhat under-qualified to review a…

Is it a tribute band or not? That’s usually an easy question to answer. And I should know, having attended dozens of them over the years. But Sunday night February…

Co-written and co-directed by brothers Benjamin Blaine and Christopher Blaine, Undeletable is an intimate film that explores grief, confession, and the permanence of what cannot be taken back. The six-minute…

“You have to always be drunk. That’s all there is to it. Not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth.…

The Cambria Film Festival is excited to premiere its first-ever Iranian film: Whisper My Name. Director Rasoul Sadrameli (The Night) gives us an engaging story about a fragmented family and…

Transgender narratives in popular media tend to have one trait in common: glamour. Of course, there is nothing wrong with glamorous portrayals. Shows like Pose and Euphoria represent the beauty…