Michael Garmonsway, Author at The Playlist

Baseball Biopic ‘Spaceman’ Is Underwhelming & Conventional [Review]

August 19, 2016 4:48 pm

As someone with little interest in or knowledge of baseball beyond the basics, it was refreshing to find that 5-time Emmy winner Brett Rapkin's biopic of controversial pitcher Bill Lee, "Spaceman," is more a st...

Documentary ‘Tickling Giants’ Shines A Light On Bassem Youssef, Egypt’s Jon Stewart [Review]

Michael Garmonsway

July 23, 2016 12:19 pm

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MONTREAL — The first thing one might notice about "Tickling Giants" – a rousing documentary from Sara Taksler, recently screened at Just For Laughs – is just how audacious the first ten minutes are. Images of a...

Technical Proficiency Can’t Overcome The Jarring Tonal Soup Of Western ‘Outlaws And Angels’ [Review]

Michael Garmonsway

July 16, 2016 10:17 am

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What a year for westerns 2015 was. In "Bone Tomahawk" and "The Hateful Eight" we were gifted two frontier tales that violated the genre's tropes with attitude, but retained a sense of respect for where they fou...

Author Michael Garmonsway