Home-Grown Talent
The Crossroads Film Festival, a four-day event beginning Thursday night, April 12, shines the spotlight on producers, screenwriters, directors, cinematographers, actors and musicians from Mississippi.
A Darker Oz
"The Hunger Games" portrays a futuristic nightmare where indentured masses, working in 12 districts, feed and entertain a parasitic society. The powers-that-be leech anything of consumptive value from the districts …
Doris the Storyteller
Don't expect to find someone sitting in a chair quietly reading to her audience when you bring your kids to hear stories from Doris F. Jones. Jones puts the books …
Films Under the Stars
Deep within the well of nostalgia lie carefree memories of families and friends packed in wood-paneled station wagons heading for an entertaining evening at the drive-in movie theater.
Free Crossroads Film
Enjoy a free showing of the Mississippi documentary "The Year of Our Lord on Thacker Mountain Radio" with the Crossroads Film Society. The documentary is based on the book "The …
Finding the Maya
Dr. George Bey does not subscribe to the belief based on the Mayan calendar that the world will end Dec. 21, 2012. However, he has a request of believers: "Please …
America's ‘Treasure'
Kirk Cameron had an idea that led to a cinematic quest to discover what has made America's legacy for freedom, prosperity and global leadership. I didn't recognize Cameron's name at …
Oh, Yeah
Three actors have brought the character of St. Patrick to film.
Who would make the best St. Patrick in a new production?
Saving the Day
Disney imagineers went stark raving mad creating "John Carter," a $250-million movie based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' series about a Confederate war veteran transported via magic medallion from the Wild …
Art-House Offerings
"The Artist," this year's Academy Award winner for the really big awards of Best Picture, Director and Actor, started out as an art-house offering. Quite understandably, its makers did not …
Nirvana for Film Addicts
The 13th Annual Crossroads Film Fest is April 13 to 15 with events in Madison, Fondren and downtown Jackson. At the Malco Grandview Theater in Madison, movie buffs can view …
Eyes of Green Fire
Aldo Leopold believed in wildlife management and conservation long before it was fashionable. "Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land," he wrote in his well-known book, "A …
Picks for Oscar
Most cinema scholars revere 1939 as the ultimate year in motion pictures. Nothing since the new millennium comes remotely close to the majestic heights reached in 1939 or even the …
Tick Tock, Tick Tock
"Safe House" is a CIA-agent-gone-rogue thriller. No further information is needed to understand the plot line, and if this picture didn't have Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds and a fine cast …
Love, Cinema Style
Whether at home or at the theater, nothing is more enjoyable with a loved one like a movie.
