Hollywood's Classic Sci-Fi Fixation
BY DAMON SMITH Posted on 12/04/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) That's enough punishment already
I was only mildly into comics as a kid, but my favorite character by far was the bitter and wounded Frank Castle, a man whose family had been murdered and whose search for vengance had turned him into a hard wired killing machine. So i was excited when, in 2004, ... read more Posted on 12/04/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) A little swerve for your Thursday
Not film related per se, but inspiring none the less. Posted on 12/04/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) 2009 Sundance Competitors Announced
The Sundance Film Festival has just announced its line-up for the 2009 competition in both the U.S. and World Cinema categories. Among the 118 narrative features and documentaries to be presented in Park City, 91 will be world premieres. Festival director Geoff Gilmore gives Variety his gloss on ... read more Posted on 12/03/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) A Night at the Gothams
Posted on 12/03/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) Oh, it's good to be back from the Gothams.I would say around 11:00 last night, there was a moment where I was officially lost. I had wandered outside the after party of the Gothams and my inner brain workings weren't working like you would hope. At that moment I wondered what would become of me. Abduction? Death? Deathduction? ... read more Posted on 12/03/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) Let's Build a Fire on Reel 13 ShortsReview of Let's Build a Fire
Amazing that an experimental-type film actually managed to win the Reel 13 shorts contest this week (The other experimental film offered up by Reel 13 – Everyday – didn't fare so well – and rightly so). Some might suggest that LET'S BUILD A FIRE is a music video, but I ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Half Nelson
Review of Half Nelson
Existence is suffering and a person who realize that real rule have to be lonely. and supposing drugs as medicine for that awareness and pain is completely an evidence for existence is a real sadistic occurrence. Posted on 12/02/08 by: delizade Comments (0 ) I want someone to come repossess my organs!Review of Repo: The Genetic Opera
Repo: The Genetic Opera is like the Rocky Horror Picture Show with a better soundtrack and all the gore of a Saw movie. I was pretty much squirming with delight from beginning to end. Paris Hilton represents. We are gonna be doing midnight showings of this movie for years to ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: CineSlut Comments (2 ) I am adhering to a pretty strict drug regimen to keep my mind limberSome people say it's wrong to go to the movies on drugs. They think it is disrespectful to the spirit of the cinema to show up to a Thursday night screening of Quantum of Solace on three hits of Ecstasy and a half gram of cocaine. They think breaking into ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: JLSmokehard Comments (0 ) |
Indie v. Indy: On Reprise and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
by Michelle Orange “I heard him say more than once that he could not think with women around.” Posted on 05/30/08 by: MOrange Comments (0 ) 
Reprise
An Interview with Joachim Trier
REPRISE is a sexy, playful, and poignant tale of two 20-something writer friends entering the adult world full of exuberant dreams and exotic ambitions, only to run headlong into a harsher reality. Norwegian director Joachim Trier captures the freewheeling passion of youth and the unpredictable ... read more Posted on 05/29/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) Cannes Wrap-Up: Cruel Stories of Youth (and How They Haunt their Parents)
By Anthony Kaufman Kids these days. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. Missing kids, dead kids, wayward kids—they haunted the frames, drove the plots, and without necessarily ever taking center stage at the 61st Cannes Film Festival, stood out as a recurrent presence at this year's prestigious world movie ... read more Posted on 05/27/08 by: anthony Comments (0 ) Cannes Wrap-Up: Cruel Stories of Youth (and How They Haunt their Parents)
Cannes Wrap-Up: Cruel Stories of Youth (and How They Haunt their Parents) By Anthony Kaufman Kids these days. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. Missing kids, dead kids, wayward kids—they haunted the frames, drove the plots, and without necessarily ever taking center stage at the 61st Cannes ... read more Posted on 05/27/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Underground on DVD at IndieflixMy 19 minute short film, Underground is now avalable on DVD at Indieflix. Check out details on th Bennett Park Films website or just order a copy now. http://www.indieflix.com/FilmDetail.aspx?tid=14642&name=Underground Synopsis: Set entirely in the NYC subway system, this 19 minute dramatic short explores the physical and emotional worlds ... read more Posted on 05/16/08 by: Michael Medeiros Comments (0 ) A Memo to all Moviegoers:All I have to say is: Please, please, please do not make idiotic or pointless comments at every turning point in a film. Just because you are whispering, or at least trying to, does not make your disturbance okay. The worst of this occurs when you sit directly in front ... read more Posted on 05/15/08 by: AlgaeFungi Comments (0 ) Spirit of ’68: Riots, Revolution, and Wilhelm Reich on Film
By Damon Smith Forty years later, how far removed are we from the upheavals that occurred during the eventful, often tumultuous months of 1968? That was the question I kept asking myself Monday after a marathon session at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater, which wrapped up ... read more Posted on 05/15/08 by: DGSmith Comments (0 ) Spirit of ’68: Riots, Revolution, and Wilhelm Reich on Film
Spirit of ’68: Riots, Revolution, and Wilhelm Reich on Film By Damon Smith- Forty years later, how far removed are we from the upheavals that occurred during the eventful, often tumultuous months of 1968? That was the question I kept asking myself Monday after a marathon session at the Film Society ... read more Posted on 05/15/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
XXY
For just about everybody, slipping past adolescence means having to confront a number of choices and life decisions, but rarely any as monumental as the one facing Alex (Ines Efron). Born a hermaphrodite, Alex has been raised as a girl, but the moment has come when a decision ... read more Posted on 05/02/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) Hmmm...Well, I am back, and have FINALLY used my free ticket for "Married Life", check out the review. I clearly am optimistic about the new Independent films that are slated to come out this week and beyond. Some of the films that look well constructed are "Meet Bill", "My Blueberry ... read more Posted on 05/02/08 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) |
Let's Build a Fire on Reel 13 ShortsReview of Let's Build a Fire
Amazing that an experimental-type film actually managed to win the Reel 13 shorts contest this week (The other experimental film offered up by Reel 13 – Everyday – didn't fare so well – and rightly so). Some might suggest that LET'S BUILD A FIRE is a music video, but I ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Half Nelson
Review of Half Nelson
Existence is suffering and a person who realize that real rule have to be lonely. and supposing drugs as medicine for that awareness and pain is completely an evidence for existence is a real sadistic occurrence. Posted on 12/02/08 by: delizade Comments (0 ) I want someone to come repossess my organs!Review of Repo: The Genetic Opera
Repo: The Genetic Opera is like the Rocky Horror Picture Show with a better soundtrack and all the gore of a Saw movie. I was pretty much squirming with delight from beginning to end. Paris Hilton represents. We are gonna be doing midnight showings of this movie for years to ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: CineSlut Comments (2 ) Guys and Dolls on Reel 13Review of Guys and Dolls
What many people don't know is that I started in musical theater before I got into filmmaking, so my familiarity with GUYS AND DOLLS, in all its incarnations, goes back a long way. (Fun fact: Did you know that Damon Runyan's character of Sky Masterson was actually based on famed ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Things To Do on Reel 13Review of Things To Do
What is it about Reel 13's obsession with Canada? I can't seem to figure it out. It's a New York-based TV show – there are lots of New York films and New York filmmakers. Why do they insist on continually going north of the border for independent films? No comprendo. ... read more Posted on 11/21/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) The Bad and the Beautiful on Reel 13Review of The Bad and the Beautiful
Believe it or not, I had not seen this film before and therefore, it was probably my most anticipated Reel 13 film yet. After all, it's a film I supposed was right up my alley – behind the scenes of old Hollywood, it had some actors I was excited about ... read more Posted on 11/20/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Manito on Reel 13Review of Manito
MANITO, the newest Reel 13 Indie about Puerto Rican brothers trying to escape their families' dark past and make ends meet in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood in Washington Heights, was extremely frustrating to watch – it's very dark (Was it timed down? Did the compression in the transfer crush the ... read more Posted on 11/20/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Fetch on Reel 13Review of Fetch
I don’t have very much to say about FETCH, the first animated short to be aired by Reel 13 (all of this week’s contestants on reel13.org were animated, so it’s not as if the viewers made it so). It was fine. Cute, funny – the animation is very ... read more Posted on 11/20/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Rebel Without a Cause on Reel 13Review of Rebel Without a Cause
Every once and a while, a movie comes around that defines a generation. EASY RIDER, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN and THE BREAKFAST CLUB are all Examples. I would argue, however, that no film better defines the generation it came from than REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, which aired last night on ... read more Posted on 11/19/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Wilby Wonderful on Reel 13Review of Wilby Wonderful
Reel 13's latest Indie hails from north of the border and features a cavalcade of present day Canadian stars (if there is such a thing), boasting the likes of Sandra Oh, Paul Gross, Maury Chaykin and the current it-girl Ellen Page (before she became super-cute). The film is a wannabe ... read more Posted on 11/19/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) |
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