Tag: film

Speak Easy features documentary filmmaker Robin Hamilton

Emmy award winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Robin Hamilton joins Speak Easy, the Alexandria Times podcast, this week to talk about her film “Our...

Review: Adam Sandler gives the performance of a lifetime in “Uncut...

By Richard Roeper Very few movies really get inside the edgy, exhilarating, heart-stopping, self-destructive mindset of the hardcore gambler. There’s "The Cincinnati Kid," "Rounders” and the...

Local crowdfunded indie film, ‘The Legacy Sessions,’ bridges generation gap

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] The film industry has ballooned into something ungainly and unsustainable for filmmakers who are trying to create a project without...

Review: ‘Joker’ transforms comic book villainy into a chilling character study

By Richard Roeper It's difficult to fathom anyone who has actually seen "Joker" coming away with the impression that it's a sympathetic origin story or...

Film review: Documenting the streets of Charlottesville

By Jordan Wright Last Sunday at the Beatley Library, the Board of the Alexandria Film Festival invited filmmaker Jackson Landers to appear at a screening of his...

Hometown actor Dermot Mulroney: Playing the sensitive roughneck

Hometown Hollywood actor Dermot Mulroney’s character in “The Grey” spends most of the film being hunted by vicious, territorial wolves alongside Liam Neeson in...