Category: Newsletter
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The Rockville Film Society Newsletter: Volume X
I’ve always appreciated the sneaky momentum that comes with the Fall movie season. Summer gives us boisterous blockbusters, inflated budget franchise films, and in the case of 2026, several break out genre titles. Autumn has the reputation of being the six or seven weeks that festival films can begin rolling…
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The Rockville Film Society Newsletter: Volume IX
Once again, the calendar slips past Labor Day and we enter Autumn in New England. For us at the Rockville Film Society, there is a wealth of exciting things happening.
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The Rockville Film Society Newsletter: Volume VIII
Movies are back. This newsletter is coming at an incredible time for not only the box office, but for the quality and diversity of the stories being told. Our mission since the start has been to celebrate those stories and the artists that work to make them. In the past…
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The Rockville Film Society Newsletter: Volume VII
As a movie year, 2026 is moving with pace. There is a palpable feeling that each day is building towards the next. With the solidification of the same day release of Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three (aptly named Dunesday, welcome back Barbenheimer energy), there is now a real huge…
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The Rockville Film Society Newsletter: Volume VI
Thank you. When The Rockville Film Society began 87 days ago (feels like years ago at this point), I had a loose idea of what this group could be. We would be a social group that met to chat about movies, and maybe be a way to follow through on…
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The Rockville Film Society Newsletter: Volume V
There is a point between the buzzing excitement of starting something new and the encroaching feeling of routine. At this moment, we as people often lose interest. This happens to all of us. We buy camping gear because summer is coming, only to have the tent and sleeping bags sit…
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Almost Famous, The Big Short, and Finding an Explanation: The Rockville Film Society Newsletter, Volume IV
There is a moment at the end of the seminal Almost Famous, where William Miller falls on his bed, having returned from the road with the band Stillwater. He is tired, emptied, and simply happy to be back in his own bed; his perspective of the rock music world having…
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The Mastermind, People We Meet on Vacation, and Movies We Love: The Rockville Film Society Newsletter, Volume III
One of the most tried and true metaphors for film, and seeing movies in a theater in general, is that what we see and hear is in fact a reflection of the audience. Our feelings, nestled and protected inside of us, are vulnerable to effective film making. The beauty of…
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Ryan Coogler, Sinners, and the Movie Draft: The Rockville Film Society Newsletter, Volume II
No one would blame Ryan Coogler for taking things easy. Over the last decade, Coogler has crafted and molded bold original storytelling with monstrous existing properties to become one of the most capable filmmakers on the planet. His movies have collectively made over 2.5 billion dollars at the global box…
