Prairie Uprising Reviews

 The "Marty" in Josh Safdie's 2025 Marty Supreme  is self-evidently Marty Scorsese, a director whose fingerprints and influenc...

  Pagliacci  is an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo, premiered in 1892.  The production by the Minnesota Opera company that I saw has been inher...

 HarBel is the name of the production company founded by Harry Belafonte around 1959 to make the movie Odds Against Tomorrow , a pungent lit...

Released in 1932, Yasujiro Ozu's I was born but... is a silent film, ostensibly about children living in the Tokyo suburbs.  During the ...

 The villain in Jacques Tourneur's 1944 Experiment Perilous  is born a murderer, at least so he says as an explanation for his perfidy. ...

 The Chinese director, Bi Gan, is an important cultural asset for the Communist regime and he seems to have been given an unlimited budget t...

DTF St. Louis  is a seven program mini-series premiered on HBO in late February and early March.  Despite some raucous aspects, the show is ...