joebendel.bsky.social
@joebendel.bsky.social
Flawed but undeniably moving at times, ARMED ONLY WITH A CAMERA documents the death and repatriation of filmmaker Brent Renaud, who was killed by Russian forces in Ukraine. Review: www.theepochtimes.com/bright/armed...
October 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I'm not sure they really tried. BSky always marketed itself as a left-of-center twitter. Frankly, I only post here just to see the unhinged response--like this comment for my review of the Sen. Joe Lieberman doc:
June 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The irony of Trump's tariff on international movies is that many foreign films better expresss American values (freedom, personal responsiblility, faith in God) than Hollywood does. See: THE LIVES OF OTHERS, BARBARA, BALLOON, & Koreeda's deeply pro-life BROKER (all great films).
May 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This week, I covered three true icons, in two notable films: Porky Pig and Daffy Duck in THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP and the late, great Rutger Hauer in LIKE TEARS IN RAIN. Reviews here:
www.jbspins.com/2025/03/new-...
www.jbspins.com/2025/03/like...
March 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Happy to see the Oscars basically getting it right with best feature and best short. You can find my CINEMA DAILY US review of FLOW and and my J.B. SPINS review of IN THE SHADOW OF THE CYPRESS below:
cinemadailyus.com/reviews/flow...
www.jbspins.com/2025/01/shor...
March 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM