Kam On Film: “The Disaster Artist” & “Hostiles” Kam Williams December 27, 2017 Columns, Kam On Film The Disaster Artist Buddy Comedy Chronicles the Making of the Worst Movie Ever In 1998, 19-year-old Greg Sestero (Dave Franco) met a mysterious, middle-aged man named Tommy Wiseau (James Franco) in a San Fran...
In Memoriam – Bruce Brown: Legendary Director Reflects on Shooting Classic Surfing Documentary Kam Williams December 20, 2017 Interviews Born in San Francisco on Dec. 1, 1937, the legendary Bruce Brown is best known for directing, narrating, shooting, editing and producing The Endless Summer, a groundbreaking documentary filmed on beaches al...
Kam On Film: “Wonder Wheel” & “Lady Bird” Kam Williams December 13, 2017 Columns Wonder Wheel New Woody Allen Pic Proves Terribly Disappointing I suppose Woody Allen was due for a dud. After being distracted during the ‘90s by a bitter divorce and custody battle, the four-time Oscar-win...
Kam On Film Kam Williams December 6, 2017 Columns Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Frances McDormand Delivers in Dark Comedy Reminiscent of Fargo Twenty-years-ago, Frances McDormand won an Academy Award for Fargo, a delightful whodunit set in a ti...
Kam On Film – “Mudbound” & “No Greater Love” Kam Williams November 29, 2017 Columns Mudbound Returning WWII Vets Forge Unlikely Friendship across Color Line in Searing Southern Saga Dateline: Mississippi, 1946, which means many of the Magnolia State's soldier native sons are making the adj...
Kam On Film – “The Star” & “Destined” Kam Williams November 22, 2017 Columns The Star Animals Emerge as Unsung Heroes in Animated Version of the Birth of Christ Most movies based on the Bible have limited appeal beyond the faithful, because the stories are ordinarily dry adaptations...
Kam On Film: Talking “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” & “Murder on the Orient Express” Kam Williams November 15, 2017 Columns Roman J. Israel, Esq. Denzel Delivers Oscar-Quality Performance as Attorney with Asperger's Roman J. Israel (Denzel Washington) is a high-functioning savant on the autism spectrum who has been practicing la...
Kam On Film – “Mayhem” and “On Wings of Eagles” Kam Williams November 8, 2017 Columns Mayhem Attorney and Client Turn On Abusive Law Firm in Revenge-Fueled Splatterfest Attorney Derek Cho (Steven Yeun) was a rising star working his way up the corporate ladder at Towers and Smythe when he was b...
Kam On Film: “1945” and “Thank You for Your Service” Kam Williams November 1, 2017 Columns 1945 Holocaust Survivors Return to Hungarian Hometown in Poignant Postwar Drama It is Aug. 12, 1945. Japan is reeling and on the verge of surrender in the wake of atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasa...
Kam On Film: A Closer Look at “Novitiate” and “American Made” Kam Williams October 25, 2017 Columns Novitiate Aspiring Nun Struggles With Vows In Coming-Of-Age Drama Cathleen Harris (Margaret Qualley) was being raised in rural Tennessee in the Fifties when she started exhibiting an interest in God at an e...