SLOW at Nashville Film Festival
BY JASON T. SPARKS To be a person who has seen movies, or has in fact lived in late 20th-early 21st century culture, is to have seen romantic comedies. They’ve been with us as...
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NEXT-GEN SHORTS PROGRAM 1 @ NASHVILLE FILM FESTIVAL
By Jason T Sparks For the sixth year in a row, I attended the Nashville Film Festival. The first screening was reminiscent of how an evening at the cinema used to begin, albeit before...
Butterfly in the Sky
Jason T. Sparks/ Nashville Film Festival 2022 **ed note: Normally we wait until YOU have at least a tiny chance of watching the films we review before we review them. But in this case,...
More Tanya Tucker!
Anna’s review of the new Tanya Tucker documentary (from SXSW) can be seen on the Canadian site Get Reel Movies!
Dreams Stay With You
Ed note: This post was written in December 2021. It was held until September for reasons that will become clear below. By Jason T Sparks On social media I subscribe to virtually every group...
See You Then @Nashville Film Festival
by Jason T Sparks What happens in the film See You Then is nothing alien, if you’re a full-grown adult who has lived any kind of life at all: two adult human beings, who...
THE NEW FOOL IN TOWN
A REMEMBRANCE AND APPRECIATION OF SCHOCK G (AND HUMPTY) By Jason T Sparks It’s June of 1992 in Nashville, Tennessee. Neighbors of mine from down the street have a daughter, and she’s getting married...
The Soul of America
by Jason T Sparks Perhaps you’ve noticed that we have just lived/are living through an intense moment in American history? A pandemic hovers over everything, as does our recent election, which has weaponized seemingly...
REQUIEM FOR 2ND AVENUE NORTH
*ed note: this is a developing story. We’ve done our best to confirm the facts at time of publication…but things change By Jason T Sparks Early Christmas morning, 2020, and my wife and I...
JOSE FELICIANO: BEHIND THIS GUITAR
By Jason T Sparks Imagine, if you will, that the human brain consists of a huge number of index cards: you can imagine it as a vintage Rolodex or an old-school library card catalogue....
