Year: 2018

April 12 – 15: Encore screenings of several Phoenix Film Festival competition films!

Jeff Mitchell

Each Phoenix Film Festival competition film plays three times during April 6 – 8, but if you had scheduling conflicts – via your kids’ soccer practice, another movie, The Masters, Wrestlemania, or just slumbered the weekend away – don’t worry.  The Phoenix Film Festival is showing encore screenings of several competition films from Thursday, April 12 through Sunday, April 15 at Harkins Scottsdale 101! Other than the festival circuit, you probably cannot see these films anywhere, so Art House Film Wire recommends (if you have the time and means), take…

‘The Miracle Season’ lives up to its name

Jeff Mitchell

“The Miracle Season” – “Do you believe in miracles?” – Al Michaels, February 22, 1980. Look up the word miracle in Google, and it’s defined as a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be a work of divine agency.  A highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment that brings very welcome consequences.  An amazing product or achievement, or an outstanding example of something. All of us have an interpretation of a miracle.  From a sports perspective, perhaps…

Fasten your seat belts and celebrate Bette Davis’s birthday with ‘All About Eve’

Jeff Mitchell

Ruth Elizabeth Davis (aka Bette) was born on April 5, 1908, and by Art House Film Wire’s calculations, she would be 110 years old this year! Now, the Academy nominated Davis for a Best Actress Oscar 11 times (11 times!!) over her illustrious career, and she took home wins for “Dangerous” (1935) and “Jezebel” (1939). “All About Eve” (1950) features one of her more timeless roles.  She plays Margo, a successful theatre actress who is systematically undermined by her understudy, Eve (Anne Baxter). With a razor sharp script and led…