Author Archive: Elaine Hegwood Bowen
Elaine Hegwood Bowen is an editor, writer and film critic in Chicago. She is the proud parent of "the smart rapper"--chemist-turned-rapper, Psalm One!
Tribeca 2012: Town of Runners
In Bekoji, Ethiopia, running is a way of life. Over the past two decades this small, rural town has been the unlikely home to numerous Olympic champion long-distance runners, whose athletic success has paved the way for young Ethiopians searching for a better life. Among the current group training under renowned coach Sentayehu Eshetu (whose [...]
Stony Island
Stony Island is a tribute to Chicago’s South Side, with saxophone legend Gene “Daddy G” Barge and others telling the story of the Stony Island band. The movie is set in the late 1970’s. With the help of their mentor, aging sax legend Percy (Barge, who had served for years as staff producer at Chicago’s [...]
Tribeca 2012 – Booker’s Place – A Mississippi Story
“To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi…” William Faulkner. Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story is a powerful documentary, which caused me such angst and disgust while I was watching it at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The festival ends on April 29, and the documentary is among other films [...]
Tribecca Film Festival – ID Film Screenings
ID releases schedule for Tribeca Film Festival Screenings ID just announced their public screenings of the following movies: Death of a Superhero; The Fourth Dimension; The Giant Mechanical Man; Knife Fight; Revenue for Jolly, Side By Side, Sleepless Night; and Struck By Lightning. Synopses for the movies and screening dates are as follows: Death of [...]
Dysfunctional Friends
Dysfunctional Friends is a poor imitation of the 1983 release The Big Chill, where college friends gathered together for the funeral of a common associate. They learn after the services that their friend’s will states that each of the remaining friends will receive a large sum of money, but only if they can remain – [...]
Little Girl (La Pivellina)
Little Girl (La Pivellina) is the story of a gypsy woman who lives in Rome and comes upon a young girl around the age of two at the neighborhood park. The lady, Aunt Patty, takes the girl in, after she finds a note from the girl’s mother asking for someone to care for her until [...]
London River
Set against the backdrop of the July 7 terrorist attacks in 2005, London River follows Elizabeth (BAFTA winner, Academy Award® nominee Brenda Blethyn) from a small farming community in Guernsey as she travels to London in the immediate aftermath of the bombings after failing to hear from her daughter. Blethyn is disturbed by the confusion [...]
NEWS….FEMALE FORCE: CHER……THE THREE MUSKETEERS…WAR HORSE…CONTRABAND AND MORE….
FEMALE FORCE: CHER The latest biography comic offering from Bluewater Productions, Female Force: Cher, has sold out in one day after its release from its distributors. This extends its record to 12-biography comic book titles sold out in the past six months. Stores that ordered the comic book might have it in stock. According to [...]
French Fields: Complete Collection
French Fields: Complete Collection is the sequel to Fresh Fields, where the Fields’ couple has hilarious circumstances heaped upon them. However, they always manage to pull together and take care of business. The British situation comedy Fresh Fields originally aired on England`s ITV network from 1984 through 1986. Written by John T. Chapman and produced [...]
Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds
On the weekend that Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds opened, Perry so graciously helped a Chicago minister, who had been living on the rooftop of an old motel on the South Side of Chicago for more than 90 days. The minister seeks to buy the motel, raze it and build a community center. Perry and others [...]
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