A former editor of millimeter, the magazine about the technology of making movies, I’ve written about movies for the World and Independent Film Page on About.com. the Kansas City Star and local site KCActive. I’m a guest critic on the independent, foreign and documentary review episodes of Steve Kraske's "Up to Date" on KCUR, the Kansas City NPR affiliate and a former member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle.

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The Swell Season (2011)

January 3, 2012

Billed as a sequel of sorts to the 2007 indie hit Once, the black-and-white documentary The Swell Season might fare better as a bonus special feature on the DVD release of that film than as an independent theatrical release. Only die-hard fans of the musical drama starring Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová will have much interest in the contrived portrayal of the demise of the couple's real-life romance. A cynical viewer may even go so far as to think the entire film is a stunt staged specifically for promoting the duo's musical enterprise, also called “The Swell Season.”

Read my review on KCActive.com.

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