The big heart of About Time largely makes up for the movie’s illogic. Films about time travel invariably have plot holes or problems, but About Time‘s characters are so compelling and its pace so pleasant that it’s easy to get…
The Treasury Department has released the Final Monthly Treasury Statement for FY 2013. The federal government brought in $2.774 trillion dollars for the entire fiscal year and spent $3.454 trillion, for a deficit of $680 billion. So the 2013 deficit…
Film buffs and industry insiders will likely be enthralled by many of the interviews and clips in the new documentary from James Toback and Alec Baldwin, Seduced and Abandoned. (Toback is the credited director and writer on IMDB, but it…
After a screening of Adrian Lyne’s 1997 Lolita on Monday afternoon at the Savannah Film Festival, Jeremy Irons took the stage of the Lucas Theatre for about half an hour of fascinating questions and answers. SCAD prof Chris Auer moderated…
I’ve read a lot and written some over the last couple of years about the likely impacts on commerce of the Panama Canal expansion and the vast infrastructure spending in the U.S. to expand ports. And I’m pretty cynical about…
In my City Talk column coming out tomorrow (Tuesday), I write a little about the increasing role of social media in terms of PR and publicity for the Savannah Film Festival. Here’s just a very small sampling of tweets from…
Alexander Payne’s new film Nebraska starts as a road movie, with a father and son going from Billings to Lincoln. The kind and directionless David (Will Forte) has decided to indulge his father Woody (Bruce Dern), who is struggling with…
SCAD announced the news quietly last week on the Savannah Film Festival Facebook page, so I’m not sure word has really gotten around that actor Julian Sands is coming to town. He’s not being officially honored like Jeremy Irons and…
I’ve reported off and on here for months about the likelihood of Ben Affleck filming much of his next film Live by Night here in Savannah. Affleck will be producer, director, writer, and star of the adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s…
On Sunday evening, there were quite a number of “virgins” at the Bay Street Theatre production of The Rocky Horror Show. The Sunday show was open to all ages, so no surprise that a large number of the young people…
I would describe the data in this post as fair at best, worrisome at worst. The slow recovery continues. From the BLS report for September that was delayed by the shutdown: Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 148,000 in September,…
A few weeks ago on a gray Sunday afternoon, I got to Muse Arts Warehouse a little early for a matinee of The Collective Face’s magnificent production of Equus. While waiting for showtime, I stood along the Springfield Canal and…
