Author: Jeff Mitchell

‘Titane’ is a horrifying and hypnotic ride

Jeff Mitchell

“Titane” – Alexia (Agathe Rousselle) has a provocative job.  She’s a car model, a scantily clad one.  At the end of a typical shift, male fans – hoping for a selfie, an autograph, or a date – herd towards Alexia like starry-eyed teenagers.  For our edgy, seductive 20-something blonde siren, she just wants a shower to rinse off the figurative stink and get home.  This woman is on the move. Writer/director Julia Ducournau is on the move too.  Her career is rocketing straight up.  Ducournau’s veterinarian student-turned-cannibal head turner “Raw”…

‘My Name is Pauli Murray’: Please meet this American pioneer

Jeff Mitchell

“My Name is Pauli Murray” – “I want to see America be what she says she is in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.  America, be what you proclaim to be!” – Pauli Murray During the opening few minutes of the documentary “My Name is Paul Murray”, Karen Rouse Ross – who is Pauli Murray’s grand-niece and the executrix of her estate – explains, “Pauli did not share a lot about her life with me.  I knew she was a priest.  I knew she had been a lawyer, but she…

‘The Many Saints of Newark’ commits a sin because it’s better suited as a series

Jeff Mitchell

“The Many Saints of Newark” – “The Sopranos” ran for six glorious, Emmy Award-winning seasons from 1999 to 2007.  Fourteen years after Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” accompanied the fateful and sudden shudder to black on the last scene of the series finale, a “The Sopranos” feature film – “The Many Saints of Newark” – arrives in theatres and HBO Max. Yes, believe it! “The Sopranos” creator David Chase has been approached to write a movie about our “favorite” New Jersey mob family before, but he always resisted.  However, in an…