Month: May 2019

“Restraint” shouldn’t be the first word that comes to mind when describing the larger-than-life singer Elton John. But that’s exactly the descriptor that came to me while watching director Dexter Fletcher’s surprisingly shy and conventional rock musical biopic of The Artist’s Most Unconventional Life. The tagline for “Rocketman” is “based on a real fantasy”, and […]

With more and more media competing for our collective attentions, it seems shocking that mainstream feature film directors have yet to learn the value of slim runtime (just watch the recent “Avengers : Endgame “, which recorded a whopping three hours). Perhaps that’s why the Rochester International Film Festival – also known by its unofficial […]