Year: 2020

Movie of the Week: ‘Raw’

Jeff Mitchell

It’s October, so it’s Pumpkin Spice Month!  Well, it is, but more importantly, it is the spookiest time of the year.   Since it’s Halloween Month, each AHFW Movie of the Week will be a horror film.  Let’s kick off the fun with an eerie cannibal story set in a Belgian veterinary school…of all places. “Raw” (2016) – Justine’s (Garance Marillier) parents drop her off at veterinary school, and she feels a bit nervous about her new journey.  Her older sister, Alexia (Ella Rumpf), already studies there and should be an…

‘On the Rocks’ is a smooth, breezy indulgence

Jeff Mitchell

“On the Rocks” – I got your nose.  I got your nose. How many fathers have played that free-and-easy, five-second game with their kids?  My dad certainly did, but as I grew older, his teasing evolved into more functional spaces.  For instance, he would insist on possessing the television’s remote control when he entered the family room. “Jeff.  Controller.  Hand it over, Son, because you don’t know how to use it,” he would often say.  This exchange occurred daily for years, and sometimes I would hand over the remote with…

Ironically, ‘The Glorias’ works too hard

Jeff Mitchell

“The Glorias” –  “The path up is always a jagged line, not a straight one.” – Gloria Steinem “Roam if you want to.  Roam around the world.  Roam if you want to, without wings, without wheels.” – The B-52s, “Roam” Most folks probably know feminist icon Gloria Steinem from “Ms.” (magazine) and her trademark glasses, but this influential trailblazer is a whole lot more than her 49-year-old publication and fancy spectacles. There’s only one Gloria Steinem.  That’s true, except in writer/director Julie Taymor’s “The Glorias”, a Steinem biopic with four…