Posts By HiT Guest Contributor

One of my least favorite movie review cliches is to say something is “more relevant now.”

Was it not relevant at all when it was first released? Usually it indicates …
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Can I persuade you to watch a movie about beekeeping in Macedonia?

I know, it sounds more like an SCTV parody of PBS programming than an actual movie, but “Honeyland” …
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Five years ago, I served as a congressional intern in Washington, DC and on Capitol Hill for a Member of the United States Congress.

No reason other than my interest …
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Nineteen years ago I rode to Sturgis with my best chum Tom Delaney.

We began in Yankton where Tom loaned me a Road King. As we headed west we joined …
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Cineplex Odeon once played a pair of Universal horror staples, Tod Browning’s “Dracula” and James Whale’s “Frankenstein,” as part of its Classic Film Series.

While I can watch Whale’s film …
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I’ve been an avid movie watcher for 20 years.

By 2015 I was seeing, on average, three films a week at the theater alone. By mid-2016, I got the idea, …
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In “Gwen,” first-time director William McGregor’s turns the scenic countryside of North Wales into something unsettling in its lush desolation.

An omnipresent fog encloses the land around the film’s eponymous …
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Jeremy Saville’s “Loqueesha,” a movie about a white man who finds success pretending to be a black woman on the radio, is a dreadful film.

It’s not because of the …
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In Part One of this series, I brought up a question few are asking: what are the victory conditions of the Culture War? 

Part Two addressed some effective tactics for …
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Jim Gaffigan’s “Being Frank” is a dramedy that’s hard to forget, for all the wrong reasons.

It’s impossible to convey how horribly both the writer and director fouled up the …
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