Michael Nazarewycz
104 articles written by Michael Nazarewycz
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Jingle Bell Rocks!
And you thought you were obsessed with the holidays?
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Maidan
The political struggles and uprising of the Ukraine are given a camera's lens.
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Antarctica: A Year On Ice
A documentary on life in Antarctica told by a long-time resident.
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Happy Valley
The Penn State child sex abuse scandal with Jerry Sandusky and Joe Paterno gets a documentary treatment.
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The Better Angels
We live in the era of superhero movies, so it's only fitting for one of America's greatest heroes to get a proper origin story.
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It Was You Charlie
The moment near the end of a film that puts everything you have just watched into perspective is a dicey proposition. It requires the closing payoff to be something worth waiting for–and more importantly, it demands deft storytelling. To...
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Life After Beth
While zombie movies can be traced back to the 1930s, the modern zombie film era is generally accepted to have begun with George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968). Since then, the zombie movie has been a...
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Lilting
Almost every film review I have written has opened with an introduction relating to the film at hand, whether it be an anecdote or a trivia item about awards, news, or details relating to the film. In the case...
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The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears
After decades of watching movies, I never thought I would discover a genre I had never heard of before. Such is the case–was the case–with “giallo.” “Giallo” (from the Italian for “yellow”) is a style of filmmaking that mixes...
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To Be Takei
It’s hard “shocked” when information about a celebrity’s past is revealed. Nowadays information about someone gets dredged up by the TMZs of the world and distributed ad nauseam across social media. Plus, there is very little a celebrity could...
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Lyle
Indie filmmakers will try anything – and god bless them for doing it – to fund their next film. Options have ranged from begging family and friends for cash and giving producer credits to financial donors to maxing out...
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The Dog
If you ask any film buff to rattle off a list of 10 great Al Pacino films, or if you avoid social interaction and just Google it, several crime dramas are guaranteed to appear (and usually in the Top...
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At the Devil’s Door
The long road between the small screen and the silver screen is littered with the corpses of wonderfully talented individuals who knew nothing but success when beamed into millions of homes each week, but many failed to bring those...
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Alive Inside
If you listen to enough random music on the radio or the internet, you are likely to hear a song you haven’t heard in a long time. The opening strains or rousing chorus of a tune that moved you...