Jazz Odyssey: The Miles Davis Story
Produced for the 10th anniversary of his death, this 2001 documentary recalls the many milestones in the life and works of trumpeter Miles Davis, the jazziest jazz ever got and […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Jazz Odyssey: Odds Against Tomorrow
Three desperate New Yorkers (Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan and Ed Begley) plan a bank job in Robert Wise’s 1959 film noir. If you’re wondering what this heist movie is doing […]
Jazz Odyssey: All Night Long
Welcome to Jazz Odyssey, a week of jazz-related film reviews because this blog isn’t nearly alienating enough as it is. No spoilers but these include a thriller, a documentary, a […]
Bananas
Separating the art from the artist sounds great in theory but there’s something about Woody Allen that makes it difficult in practice, though I can’t quite put my finger on […]
The Grateful Dead Movie
When the late, great Robert Hunter wrote the Grateful Dead lyric “Such a long long time to be gone, and a moment to be there” he was probably describing life […]
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
When is a director not a director? And I don’t mean M. Night Shyamalan; I’m talking about films with misleading director credits, such as Poltergeist secretly being directed by Steven […]
Species
An alien hybrid escapes containment and hits the LA clubs for some procreational activities in this 1995 sci-fi/horror that they should have called Sex Predator. Itself a hybrid of Rabid […]
Little Monsters
A kindergarten trip to a petting farm is gatecrashed by a zombie outbreak in this Australian zom-com, or perhaps a zoombie movie. You don’t have to be Edgar Wright to […]
WITCH: We Intend To Cause Havoc
WITCH is a rockumentary which celebrates the rich history and present-day sitch of Zambian rock band WITCH. Rockumentaries have a tendency to conform to type, a consequence of there being […]
Brick
Claire from Lost gets lost and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (currently MIA from acting) tracks her down in Rian Johnson’s debut feature. I’ve seen this film three times and still have no […]
Screen Goblin 