2019 MomoCon Recap: Cosplay, Panels, and More!
Cosplay, gaming, and anime fans all gathered over Memorial Day weekend for one of our favorite events of the year – MomoCon! The event, which…
Michael McKinney graduated from the The University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s degree in Film. Michael has worked in television for over 30 years at stations in San Antonio, Dallas, and Atlanta. In 2011 he founded his weekly review blog Last One To Leave The Theatre and also became the film critic for WUPA-TV’s website ATLCW.TV, writing Preview This! a weekly look at movies coming out and long-form reviews of film concentrating on Indie films. Michael also writes long-form reviews and does interviews for the FanBolt.com website. Michael co-hosts the weekly ATLas podcast with Shakefire’s Matt Rodriquez and FanBolt’s Emma Loggings where they review movies, talk about the weekend box office and discuss local film events happening in Atlanta, GA. Michael has covered the L.A. Film Festival, SXSW Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Macon Film Festival, Savanah Film Festival, and the Rome International Film Festival.
MomoCon 2019 May 23-26th: One Of The Largest Anime Conventions In North America
If you are a fan of Japanese Anime, Comics, Video and Table Top games, and Cosplay you will want to be at MomoCon this weekend!…
‘Brockmire’ Star Hank Azaria and Showrunner Joel Church-Cooper Talk Season 3
Brockmire, starring Hank Azaria as Jim Brockmire, is in the midst of airing its 3rd season on IFC. Not familiar with the series? Here’s what…
‘The Biggest Little Farm’ Review: A City Couple That Says Let’s Buy A Farm
Sometimes it takes a simple act to turn your life upside down. The documentary The Biggest Little Farm is about a couple who experienced just…
‘Summer Night’ Review: A Fun Night In A Small California Town
I love going to film festivals. You go into a screening not knowing anything about a film, and then you fall in love with it.…
‘The Farewell’ Review: A Moving Film about a Family Dealing with Cancer
Dealing with a terminal illness can devastate a family both financially and emotionally. It has to be decided who is going to take the reins…
‘Hotel Mumbai’ Review: A Taut, Suspenseful Film about a Terrorist Attack on a Hotel Full of Tourists
NexHotel Mumbai is an ‘edge of your seat’ film about the 2008 terrorist attack on the Taj Hotel in Mumbai. Director/co-writer Anthony Maras brings us…
‘Giant Little Ones’ Review: A Fantastic Look at the Life of a Teenager
Giant Little Ones, a new film from award-winning director, Keith Behrman, is a coming of age movie about two popular boys (played by Darren Mann and…
‘Mapplethorpe’ Review: An Uneven Look at the Life of the Controversial Photographer
Mapplethorpe provides a look into the life of controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (played by Matt Smith). From his rise in the 1970s art world to…
‘Finding Steve McQueen’ Review: An Epic Story of Five Wise Guys Robbing a Bank
Director Mark Steven Johnson and co-writers Ken Mixon and Keith Sharon bring us a funny, smart and sweet film that is based on a true story of five gu…
AJ Michalka and Brett Dier Talk ‘Schooled’ at SCAD aTVFest 2019
SCAD’s aTVFest 2019 just wrapped last month in Atlanta, and FanBolt’s Mike McKinney had the pleasure of sitting down with two of the stars from…
‘The Invisibles’ Review: Unbelievable Documentary About 4 Jews That Hid in Berlin During WWII
In May of 1943, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels declared Berlin was ‘free of Jews.’ Little did he know that during WWII there were 7,000 Jews…