It’s always great to see a local film organization move along with “the times.” Since the COVID pandemic, our New Orleans Film Society has incorporated more and more accessibility tools for its flagship festival, from virtual (online) programming to making sure that more moviegoers have a chance at attending. This year’s event will continue these […]
When the late Carl Walker asked me to contribute to one of his productions of Native Tongues — where New Orleans playwrights wrote New Orleans characters, to be performed by New Orleans actors — I had a shy request: Could I try writing something for Carol Sutton? Carol, whom I never had met but admired […]
Friend and local filmmaker Jonathan Isaac Jackson is currently working on a short documentary about the history and culture of the Mardi Gras Indians, a subject that has been done often enough, but perhaps not from the edgy angle we should expect from Jackson. In teasing us on his progress, Jackson posted some footage on […]
Already the youngest filmmaker to compete in the Tribeca Film Festival New Orleans native Phillip Youmans just became its youngest winner.
Welcome to today’s first and (likely last) edition of Big Easy Magazine’s Mike Mauls the Movies, where I ask and even sometimes answer the burning questions, “When is a good time to disembowel someone on film, and when is it more of a faux pas? Is it okay to kiss your sister if it’s sci-fi? […]
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