2024 Oscar Nominated Short Film Showcases Open February 16
If you’re an Oscar nominee completist like The MN Movie Man (and as I attempt to be), there are few categories this side of Best...
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Jared Huizenga
- Nov 7, 2023
On Stage or Screen, Low Cut Connie Has a Story to Tell
In December 2017, needing a break from the angsty alt rock of my formative middle/high school years and the angsty emo/pop-punk of my...
Jared Huizenga
- Sep 20, 2022
The Infernal Machine: Twin Cities Filmmaker Debuts Latest Feature Close to Home
If you’ve spent time at the Twin Cities Film Fest over the past few years, you’ve very likely stumbled upon the work of filmmaker Andrew...
Jared Huizenga
- Feb 8, 2019
Oscar-Nominated Shorts Open on February 8
Aside from foreign language films, each year the Oscar-nominated short films prove to be the most problematic for those who want to see...
Jared Huizenga
- Jan 6, 2019
Predicting the Globes
Best Picture – Drama (Photo by Neal Preston © 2018 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. AND METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES INC. ALL RIGHTS...
Jared Huizenga
- Dec 17, 2018
Minnesota native helps bring the 'Spider-Verse' to life
For the better part of the last quarter century, Tony Siruno has played a hand in bringing some of the most memorable animated characters...
Jared Huizenga
- Nov 1, 2018
New documentary looks to crack the code of athletic greatness
It would be easy to wonder why a filmmaker who didn't grow up a sports fanatic might want to make a documentary about what makes elite...
Jared Huizenga
- Oct 9, 2018
Stunning imagery & unique storytelling are prevalent in 'Living in the Future's Past'
With a title like “Living in the Future’s Past,” one could easily be tricked into think it’s just another ecological documentary, slanted...
Jared Huizenga
- Apr 16, 2018
After 17 years, the mustache rides again on April 20
It took 17 years and the financial support of more than 54,000 Indiegogo supporters, but this weekend (April 20) Thorny, Foster, Rabbit,...
Jared Huizenga
- Nov 21, 2017
Chris Bernardi’s road to ‘Coco’ started after a detour from medicine
Medicine was where Chris Bernardi saw his life headed. A pre-med student while attending Washington University in St. Louis, Bernardi was...
Jared Huizenga
- May 15, 2015
The World’s Oldest Child Star
"If you mean did I think that at 81 years old I'd still be dressing up like a 6-year-old bird, then definitely not," Caroll Spinney jokes...
Jared Huizenga
- Apr 28, 2014
Dom Hemingway: The Most Unlikeable Likeable Guy You’re Likely to Find
From the moment you meet Dom Hemingway, you can pretty much tell that you’re really not going to like him. Or you’re really going to like...
Jared Huizenga
- Mar 5, 2014
'Mr. Peabody & Sherman' - Making the Old Feel New Again
More than six decades ago, the most unlikely of duos – the world’s smartest K-9 and a bespectacled orphan – began traveling through time...
Jared Huizenga
- Jan 30, 2014
‘Labor Day’ a Labor of Love for Joyce Maynard
While she’s out making the rounds promoting the Jan. 31 release of “Labor Day,” author Joyce Maynard no longer sits through the film in...
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