Kam on Film: ‘Echo in the Canyon” Kam Williams May 29, 2019 Columns, Kam On Film Dawn of Hippie Era Revisited via Rock Music Retrospective In the wake of Beatlemania exploding across America in 1964, many aspiring musicians were inspired to start their own rock band. Some settled in Lau... Read More...
Kam on Film: ‘Isn’t It Romantic’ Kam Williams May 22, 2019 Columns, Kam On Film Rebel Wilson Headlines Disappointing Romantic Musical Comedy Natalie (Rebel Wilson) is a dynamic, young professional trying to make her mark on Manhattan. But between a fledgling professional ca... Read More...
Kam on Film: ‘Tolkien’ Kam Williams May 15, 2019 Columns, Kam On Film J.R.R. Tolkien was a British fantasy novelist best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. After being orphaned at an early age, he attended King Edwards, an exclusive boarding school where he forged cl... Read More...
Kam on Film: ‘Bolden’ Kam Williams May 8, 2019 Columns, Kam On Film Overdue Biopic Belatedly Pays Tribute to Jazz Pioneer Buddy Bolden was born in New Orleans, where he took up the cornet at an early age. His unique approach to the instrument involved a novel form of improvi... Read More...
Kam on Film: ‘Teen Spirit’ Arts Weekly May 1, 2019 Columns, Kam On Film Elle Fanning Stars as Aspiring Singer in Coming of Age Drama Violet Valenski (Elle Faning) is a 17-year-old living with her single mom (Agnieszka Grochowska) on a modest family farm on the Isle of ... Read More...
Kam on Film: ‘The Mustang’ Kam Williams April 24, 2019 Columns, Kam On Film Hardened Con Offered Shot at Redemption by Rough-Edged Horse Whisperer Roman Coleman (Matthias Schoenaerts) has too quick a fuse to think before he acts. That's why he's done a dozen years and counting in a ... Read More...
Kam on Film: ‘Breakthrough’ Kam Williams April 17, 2019 Columns, Kam On Film Despite being saddled with a couple of generic American names, John Smith's (Marcel Ruiz) life story has been anything but boring. It's just too bad that the shy, 14-year-old has been too embarrassed to share i... Read More...
Kam on Film: ‘Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase Kam Williams April 10, 2019 Columns, Kam On Film Sophia Lillis Shines as Legendary Teen Sleuth in Adaptation of Carolyn Keene Classic After the untimely death of his wife, Carson Drew decided he and his daughter Nancy (Sophia Lillis) might benefit from a c... Read More...
Kam on Film: ‘Hotel Mumbai’—Harrowing Docudrama Recounts 2008 Mumbai Massacre Kam Williams April 2, 2019 Columns, Kam On Film On November 26, 2008, radical Islamists from Pakistan launched a series of coordinated attacks around the city of Mumbai which would claim 174 lives and leave hundreds more wounded. Within hours of the raid, th... Read More...
Kam on Film: ‘Unplanned’ Kam Williams March 27, 2019 Columns, Kam On Film Abby Johnson (Ashley Bratcher) was recruited by Planned Parenthood to do volunteer work when she was still an undergrad at Texas A&M. Her first job was to escort women seeking abortions from the parking lot... Read More...
