There’s No Escape from the Diary of a Teenage Girl… U.N.C.L.E., please! by Chip Kaufmann – Greetings and salutations dear readers! This is Professor Kaufmann doing the honors for the Monthly Reel this month. We have a rather odd but interesting array of movies for your consideration. This month IContinue Reading
This August, take a Rogue Nation Vacation by Michelle Keenan The dog days of summer are here. If tubing down the French Broad isn’t your thing, there’s plenty of entertainment at local theatres. Top on our list this month is Mr. Holmes, and the good Professor Kaufmann has the exuberantContinue Reading
by Michelle Keenan Can the Governator Terminate Mike’s Magic? A reboot of The Terminator (a first installment in a new trilogy to be precise), a super sized sequel to Magic Mike (because Hollywood can’t leave well enough alone), a potty-mouthed talking teddy bear (again, because Hollywood can’t leave well enoughContinue Reading
From Chautauqua to post apocalyptic action, June is “Pickford perfect.” by Michelle Keenan Fresh off teaching a course about one of the great pioneers of the movie industry, the Good Professor Kaufmann has penned a terrific feature about Mary Pickford. Unless you are a film historian or total movie geek,Continue Reading
Celebrating Orson Welles, the Asheville Jewish Film Festival, and Avenging the Box Office! by Michelle Keenan This month we’re celebrating the 100th birthday of Orson Welles. To mark the milestone The Asheville Film Society will be showing The Lady From Shanghai on May 20 and the Hendersonville Film Society willContinue Reading
by Michelle Keenan Many thanks to the good Professor Kaufmann for holding down the fort while I gallivanted off to Paris for a friend’s wedding last month. Life has been such a whirlwind for both of us lately that we’ve paid little notice to that post award season cinematic lullContinue Reading
by Chip Kaufmann – Greetings & Salutations Reel Take readers! This is your friendly Professor Kaufmann speaking (actually writing). Michelle has taken this issue off (except for a DVD pick) to attend the wedding of a friend in Paris (poor girl!) and so it’s up to me to tell youContinue Reading
This is it, movie geeks! by Michelle Keenan – Award season is in full swing and the fashion police are out in full force, covering every inch of the red carpet on the road to Oscar. The 87th Academy Award nominations were announced in January and now the campaign forContinue Reading
Asheville premiere on Thursday, January 8, 2015 of the first all female ski film. Pretty Faces is a film celebrating women who thrive in the snow. The concept for the film was originated by professional big mountain skier and SheJumps co-founder, Lynsey Dyer with the objective of giving women andContinue Reading
