‘My Dead Dad’ – Laments of an Engaging Son
By Ernest Kearney — In "My Dead Dad," Samuel Jae is covering very well-trodden ground – very well covered.(HFF23)
Jackie – A Tragedy of Mannequins and Wardrobe
By Ernest Kearney — 'Jackie' written by Austrian playwright, novelist and 2004 Noble Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is like a Rap-poetry rant inspired by David Lynch’s early films.
‘Befok’ (or The Desperate Attempt To Impress Iñárritu) – Stir Crazy In The Prison Of Our Passions
By Ernest Kearney — Inspiration for 'Befok' (or The Desperate Attempt to Impress Iñárritu), playing during HFF23 at the Broadwater in Hollywood…
‘Dillis’ – Existential Dopiness from a Dainty Idiot
By Ernest Kearney — I am a sucker for clowns
‘The Book of Will’ – The Battle for Shakespeare Revealed
By Ernest Kearney — Playwright Lauren Gundersen has a flair in farming history for fascinating feminists – astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt who devised a galactic “measuring tape” (Silent Sky,)
The Ending of a Succession
By Nicusor Ciumacencu — On a simplistic note, as a man, watching "Succession" from beginning to end, the feeling I had was “We will always rule this world!”