Michael McKinney

Table of Contents Sometimes it takes a simple act to turn your life upside down. The documentary The Biggest Little Farm is about a couple who experienced just that. They decided to buy a farm and grow things naturally. John Chester was a cameraman…

Table of Contents I love going to film festivals. You go into a screening not knowing anything about a film, and then you fall in love with it. I went into the Atlanta Film Festival screening of director Joseph Cross’s Summer Night unaware of what…

Table of Contents Dealing with a terminal illness can devastate a family both financially and emotionally. It has to be decided who is going to take the reins and guide the family through the crisis. The Farewell is a film that deals with just that.…

Table of Contents NexHotel Mumbai is an ‘edge of your seat’ film about the 2008 terrorist attack on the Taj Hotel in Mumbai. Director/co-writer Anthony Maras brings us the story of the tourists (and the hotel staff that stayed to protect them) whom…

Table of Contents Giant Little Ones, a new film from award-winning director, Keith Behrman, is a coming of age movie about two popular boys (played by Darren Mann and Josh Wiggins). Their lives are turned upside down by an incident that happens on…

Table of Contents Mapplethorpe provides a look into the life of controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (played by Matt Smith). From his rise in the 1970s art world to his untimely death in 1989, Mapplethorpe was an artist who specialized in…

Table of Contents Director Mark Steven Johnson and co-writers Ken Mixon and Keith Sharon bring us a funny, smart and sweet film that is based on a true story of five guys out of Youngstown, Ohio who pulled off one of the largest bank robberies in…

In May of 1943, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels declared Berlin was ‘free of Jews.’ Little did he know that during WWII there were 7,000 Jews who were in hiding in Berlin at the start of the war. ‘The Invisible’ is a German documentary that…

Right off the bat, I am going to tell you to run don’t walk to your nearest IMAX theatre and see this film. The liftoff sequence is one of the greatest film experiences of my life and is worth the price of admission on its own. Todd Douglas Miller…

‘To Dust’ played to packed theatres at the 2019 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, the largest Jewish film festival in the United States. Grief is a strange emotion and everyone deals with it differently. From co-writer/director Shawn Snyder is the film…

‘Ruben Brandt, Collector’ is directed, written and drawn by Milorad Krstić, a Budapest multimedia artist. The film is made up of a bunch of different film styles, including film noir, with action sequences that are reminiscent of a ‘Die Hard’ or…

For some reason, Hollywood doesn’t like to make buddy pictures about women. So it’s a nice surprise to have a comedy from New Zealand about two friends, Mel and Jen, who run a company that specializes in breaking couples up. The Breaker Upperers…

Table of Contents The Academy Awards are just around the corner on Feb. 24th, so we’ve reviewed the five Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts. Are they worth checking out? Find out below! A Night at the Garden (USA) (2017) Before World War II broke…

Table of Contents Shoelaces (having played in Israel under the name Laces) is a Hebrew-language film from director Jacob Goldwasser that was recently up for eight awards from the Israeli Academy Awards, winning one for Doval’e Glickman’s performance.…

The Oscars are coming up on Sunday, Feb. 24th, and we tasked critic Mike McKinney with reviewing the five Oscar-nominated animated shorts. The five films run the gamut from deeply moving to absolutely hilarious. See which ones he thinks could be the…

Table of Contents As we approach the Oscars, which air later this month, we’ve been diving a bit deeper into some of the less popular, yet still high deserving of praise categories. FanBolt’s Mike McKinney has done just that with his reviews of the…

Three-time Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings Trilogy) is a World War I buff that has a rather large collection of Items from ‘the war to end all wars.’ Jackson was asked by the Imperial War Museum in England to do a…

Netflix has brought us an interactive movie about an 80s computer game developer named Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead) who is working on a game based on his favorite book, a choose your adventure book called Bandersnatch. Stefan is a troubled young…

While the Harvard school song is being sung, we see young men in coat and ties walking across the campus. We see Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) in a sea of men heading towards an auditorium. Ruth looks happily around her inside the hall as she…

For good or bad the internet is here to stay. One of the mainstays of the internet is Twitter, which allows people from all around the world to share ideas, and even better, jokes. Funny Tweets is a documentary that explores what it is like to be…