Film Obsessive

5 days ago | filmobsessive.com | Don Shanahan

For a movie remake not to be seen as a sign of creative bankruptcy or lazy nostalgia bait, the new film has to offer something new. Do the borrowed themes and storylines fit the current times after the passing years since the original? A remake normally arrives shouting to the masses for attention. That begs the more important question: Is there something substantive or new to say that’s worth updating? The new rendition of The Wedding Banquet adamantly answers those questions positively.

5 days ago | filmobsessive.com | Don Shanahan

The hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast, sponsored and supported by the Ruminations Radio Network, talk all the time about being fathers, particularly fathers of daughters. Being so-called cinephiles to go with being teachers and parents, Will Johnson and Don Shanahan have long considered the labeling verb of “indoctrination.” As teachers, they wish they had any brainwashing powers to get kids to sit down and do their work, let alone think something of actual substance.

1 week ago | filmobsessive.com | Don Shanahan

Libraries are crossroads of eras and cultures with a wide range of both available knowledge and types of folks tapping into those resources. With their orderly arrangements and data-driven systems, libraries are places of meticulousness and, therefore, it takes meticulous people to work at and maintain them. Librarians then become the stewards and arbiters of these places. Our central protagonist and title character of Darkest Miriam from Game Theory Films is a librarian.

1 week ago | filmobsessive.com | Don Shanahan

The hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast, sponsored and supported by the Ruminations Radio Network, are proud to bow at the altar of the late filmmaker William Friedkin. Though the movie industry lost Friedkin in 2023, he showered Hollywood with several hits and masterpieces across several decades, including The Exorcist and The French Connection from the 1970s to Cruising in the 1980s. Our guys haven’t seen all of the best William had to offer, but they’ll aim to try.

1 week ago | filmobsessive.com | Don Shanahan

Watching the well-steeped yet tenuous relationship between the main characters in the new road movie Sacramento played by director Michael Angarano and co-headliner Michael Cera calls to mind this notion about friendship fertilized in a poem by Brian A. “Drew” Chalker:“People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.