Film & Television

SCAD aTVfest showed a special screening of the documentary film “Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson,” on Feb. 5th in the Digital Media Center. The documentary film tells the story of little known 19th century painter Edith Wilkinson.

Last week on February 7th, SCAD Atlanta’s aTVfest premiered a two-episode sneak peak of the upcoming series “American Crime” at the SCAD Show theater. The star of the new series, Academy Award winner Timothy Hutton (“Ordinary People,” “Leverage”) was honored with SCAD’s annual Icon Award for his work of over thirty years as an actor.

SCAD students, professors and other TV lovers all packed into Panel Room B at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday morning for aTVfest’s Television Roundtable. The media panel, moderated by Savannah-based dramatic writing professor Chris Auer, engaged in a sweeping and insightful industry discussion, focusing first on the way in which the fluidity of new media is transforming television as we know it.

What does a film involving hippie detectives, neo-Nazis, drug smugglers and a missing rich guy create? Surprisingly nothing that exciting. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (“There Will Be Blood”), “Inherent Vice” is set in 1970 and follows private investigator/hippie Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix, “Her”) who’s hired by his ex-girlfriend Shasta (Katherine Waterston, “Michael Clayton”) to track down her missing current lover, a real-estate mogul named Michael Z. Wolfmann (Eric Roberts, “The Expendables”).

With the excellent “Interstellar,” director Christopher Nolan continues his career-long crusade against mindless moviemaking. This film is an artful, operatic science fiction epic with a potent emotional core. It’s Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Cosmos” on steroids, and my top winter break entertainment recommendation.

On episode four of AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” Beth, who was previously taken at the end of season four by a black car with a white cross, wakes up and discovers the former way of life: electricity, the ticking clock on the wall. She’s also startled when police officer Dawn and Dr. Steve Edwards enter the room.

Written by Kristofer Seppala, contributor Summit Entertainment | LionsGate Keanu Reeves (“The Matrix”) stars as a hit man who goes on a murderous rampage after his car is stolen and

Written by Dana J. Hortman, contributor Image from AMC. After a two week column hiatus caused by sickness and midterms, I am finally back to normal and ready to dish

Image from NBC. Written by Carmen Lehtimaki, contributor   On Monday, Oct. 20,  at 9 a.m. SCAD students were treated with a free pre-screening of “Constantine,” at SCAD show. “Constantine,”

Illustration by Arielle Antonio.   Wondering which of the new fall shows are worth adding to your weekly routine and which over-hyped additions to avoid at all costs? You’re in