Taco Break: What makes a good shorts program?
In all the hubub of SIFF, I was only able to attend two shorts programs…
Taco Break: Tainted Songs
Movies can associate themselves with songs in a lot of ways. They can introduce us…
Taco Break: What Makes A Good Short?
At one of the Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festivals, I overheard somebody say…
Taco Break: Animation Grows Up
No matter what I say or what movies I show her, my mother believes that…
Taco Break: Our Teenage Obsession
They say that America is a youth-obsessed culture. We tend to like our stories young,…
Taco Break: Expectations
We’ve all had it happen at least once in our lives. We build up a…
Taco Break: King Size Movies
Ed’s Note: I’m in the middle of OJ: Made In America, so this Taco Break is totally…
Taco Break: the Way We Were
For nothing is lost, nothing is ever lost. (Robert Penn Warren) Picking up on a…
Taco Break: Moral Responsibility
The same week that the Oscars sucked all the air out of the room, the…
Taco Break: The Audience
At this year’s Academy Awards, Toni Erdmann was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, but it already…