Hugh Hart

1 month ago | motionpictures.org | Hugh Hart

| Robert Redford, back in 1988, became so obsessed with the late Tony Hillerman’s Leaphorn & Chee novels about Native American cops that he later teamed with Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, a New Mexico resident, to champion adaptations of the stories. Three years ago, AMC+ + came on board and launched Dark Winds. The show, set in the early seventies, follows tribal cops Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon), Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon), and Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten) as they solve...

1 month ago | motionpictures.org | Hugh Hart

| In part one of our interview with Sinners cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw, the groundbreaking DP discussed how she leveled up to frame Coogler’s soulful supernatural epic by learning to use the largest film format available. Coogler’s ambitions for his vampire thriller, starring Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers Smoke and Stack, were massive. The brothers return to Clarksdale, Mississippi, after serving in World War I and then taking their talents to Chicago, where they worked for,...

1 month ago | motionpictures.org | Hugh Hart

| Yes, there are vampires, but Sinners also excels as a period piece, a history lesson, a romance, a drama, an action movie, and a music-driven drama in ways that have made director Ryan Coogler‘s fifth movie the top-grossing original film of the decade. Based on his own script about gangster twins Smoke and Stack (played by Michael B. Jordan) who return to their Mississippi roots with a bag of ill-gotten cash and a plan to start their own juke joint in the middle of the woods, Sinners...

1 month ago | latimes.com | Hugh Hart

He may have started the third season of “Dark Winds” crawling across the desert in the dead of night with a wounded leg and a dart stuck in his neck, but for Zahn McClarnon’s Joe Leaphorn, things can always get worse. “There’s a lot at stake for Joe,” said McClarnon, whose Navajo police lieutenant contends with marital discord, childhood trauma and a pesky FBI investigation. “He’s made some mistakes and the people around him are suffering because of it.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Hugh Hart

He may have started the third season of "Dark Winds" crawling across the desert in the dead of night with a wounded leg and a dart stuck in his neck, but for Zahn McClarnon's Joe Leaphorn, things can always get worse. "There's a lot at stake for Joe," said McClarnon, whose Navajo police lieutenant contends with marital discord, childhood trauma and a pesky FBI investigation. "He's made some mistakes and the people around him are suffering because of it.