Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
Let’s Go To The Movies: Nightcrawler – Director Dan Gilroy Dan Gilroy’s debut film should grab the gold come award time. His Michael Mann- inspired […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
September 2014 Last October I wrote: “Quel deluge! The awards season scramble is upon us.” Everyday it would seem a new “important” film opens in […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
In or out of Greenwich Village, August is either the dog days of summer or the time to vacation with a good book or feel […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
A heat wave is predicted for July and August on the East Coast, which is perfect air-conditioned movie theater time. Please keep that in mind […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
June 2014 June brings summer breezes and vacation nights! We can recommend quite a few: The Amazing Spider-Manfor sheer fun with an undertone of humanity. […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
April 2014 Well,spring is here and movie festivals are popping up all over New York City like daffodils in Central Park. The Tribeca Film Festival […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
Let’s Go To The Movies! ROBOCOP 2014 dir José Padilha Only when I saw that Brazilian José Padilha would be the director did I become […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
We are writing this column from Park City, Utah in the middle of Sundance Film Festival‘s 30thanniversary. Sundance remains the single most important film festival […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
Top Films of 2013 It has been a very good year to see quality, challenging, and entertaining movies in a variety of distribution platforms including […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
Quite frankly there are many major films of merit released in the last six weeks of the year to qualify for consideration in the upcoming […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: MOVIES THAT MATTER November 2013
LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES! The Square dir Jehane Noujaim Last January, Egyptian-America filmmaker Jehane Noujaim and her crew literally landed in Salt Lake direct […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter October 2013
October 2013 Quel deluge! The awards season scramble is upon us. Every day it would seem a new “important” film opens in New York City. […]
Jim Fouratt’s Reel Deal: Movies that Matter September 2013
Blame our neighbor Harvey Weinstein for the grand deluge of quality films that will fall almost daily from the sky between September 1st and December […]
Jim Fouratt’s Reel Deal: Movies that Matter August 2013
Academy Awards qualifying time has now crept into what used to be the sleepy month for movies. So, August brings an abundance of quality movies. […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: movies that matter July 2013
July 2013 It is summer, which means big movies that will try to frighten you on some unconscious level. In the current political climate, with […]
Jim Fouratt’s Reel Deal: Movies that Matter. May 2013
We have just put to bed the best Tribeca Film Festival since its beginning. Kudos to programming chiefs Genna Terranova, Geoffrey Gilmore, and Frederic Boyer […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies That Matter April 2013
April: 2013 A recent email asked me why I do not review the “big” films. As a monthly publication, I include films that the print […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies That Matter January 2013
Looking back on the over 500 films I have seen in 2012, I think it has been a very good year for the moviegoer. That […]