Film

IT: No Clowning Around

They say you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone, but in the case of Andy Muschietti’s It, you don’t know what…

Jeffrey Martin Talks Film- The Pick Ups Ep 002: Doctor Strange

Homeless in a college town (VIDEO)

Amherst is blessed with an economy that thrives through good times and bad. While we live…

Jeffrey Martin talks Film- The Pick Ups Ep 001: Black Swan

Ghost in the (Hollow) Shell

Cinema by Jeffrey Martin

I never sought out Ghost in the Shell in its many iterations. But the highest praise you can pay an adaptation is that you want to check out a film’s source material, which rings true for Ghost in the Shell. Unfortunately, I’m…

The Climate Change Documentary That Isn’t An Inconvenient Truth (VIDEO)

Cinema by Jeffrey Martin

After Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and many later documentaries of the same ethos, what new ground is there to break in terms of climate change? The new…

James Baldwin is Nobody’s Negro

Cinema by Jody Jenkins

Sitting in the theater watching Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, it’s hard to truly believe that much has changed over the past fifty years when it comes to race in America. The 93-minute documentary evokes the violent…

Amherst Survival Center: 40th Anniversary (VIDEO)

LOGAN: Cure for the Common Superhero

Cinema by Jeffrey Martin

SKULL ISLAND, a Bit Long in the Tooth

Cinema by Jeffrey Martin

If it weren’t for the two feet of snow on the ground, I’d swear it was the summer blockbuster season. Unfortunately Kong: Skull Island apes around with some larger themes but in the end winds up being more of just…