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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 ) 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 ) |
Why So Serious?: A “Dark Knight” PolemicDuality, duality ... all is Duality. Darkness and light. Justice and revenge. Order and chaos—they’re two sides of the same coin! Wow, who knew? Apologies to any Batfreaks out there, but if I read one more review trying to sell me on the merits of this film’s brilliant, complex themes, ... read more Posted on 07/27/08 by: HeraX Comments (0 ) 
Baghead
Baghead: An interview with directors Mark and Jay Duplass: Mark and Jay spent almost 2 years on the festival circuit promoting The Puffy Chair. During this time, they were confronted over and over again with one consistent element… desperate actors. Those poor, slightly pathetic characters always waiting outside in ... read more Posted on 07/26/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Frozen River: An interview with director Courtney Hunt
Frozen River: An interview with director Courtney Hunt FROZEN RIVER is the story of Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo), an upstate New York trailer mom who is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling when she meets a Mohawk girl who lives on a reservation that straddles the ...
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Ball and Trains: "The Order of Myths" Unmasks America's Oldest Mardi Gras
Ball and Trains: "The Order of Myths" Unmasks America's Oldest Mardi Gras By Damon Smith Alabama native Margaret Brown made a strong impression four years ago with “Be Here to Love Me,” her tender docu-portrait of late Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt, the renowned songwriter (and drinker) who died ... read more Posted on 07/23/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Ball and Trains: "The Order of Myths" Unmasks America's Oldest Mardi GrasBy Damon Smith Alabama native Margaret Brown made a strong impression four years ago with “Be Here to Love Me,” her tender docu-portrait of late Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt, the renowned songwriter (and drinker) who died in 1997 of a heart embolism. For her second feature, Brown travels to ... read more Posted on 07/23/08 by: DGSmith Comments (4 ) 
Mumblecore's First Horror Flick: And No, That's Not the Unknown Comic A Review of "Baghead"Mumblecore's First Horror Flick: And No, That's Not the Unknown Comic A Review of "Baghead" By Damon Smith Depending on whether your taste runs to (or far away from) talky, low-budget twentysomething relationship comedies by the likes of Andrew Bujalski and Joe Swanberg, you either loved or hated Mark ... read more Posted on 07/23/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Herzog and the Apocalypse: A Meditation Inspired by "Encounters at the End of the World"
Herzog and the Apocalypse: A Meditation Inspired by "Encounters at the End of the World" By Damon Smith Movies have been dreaming about the end of the world at least since the 1950s, when nuclear-age anxieties about world destruction combusted on-screen, mostly in genre pictures featuring mad scientists, ... read more Posted on 07/18/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
About a "Boy"
About a "Boy": A Review of John Crowley's Post-Prison Coming-of-Age Tale, Boy A By Damon Smith “The past is not the future,” opines Peter Mullan’s Terry in the buzzed-about British film “Boy A.” But the past is exactly what’s got hold of Jack Burridge (Andrew Garfield), the sensitive young ... read more Posted on 07/18/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Herzog and the ApocalypseA Meditation Inspired by "Encounters at the End of the World" By Damon Smith Movies have been dreaming about the end of the world at least since the 1950s, when nuclear-age anxieties about world destruction combusted on-screen, mostly in genre pictures featuring mad scientists, doomsday scenarios, and irradiated monsters. The ... read more Posted on 07/18/08 by: DGSmith Comments (0 ) 
American Teen
American Teen: An interview with director Nanette Burstein: AMERICAN TEEN intimately follows the lives of four teenagers in one small town in Indiana through their senior year of high school. Using cinema vérité footage, interviews, and animation, it presents a candid portrait of being 17 and all that goes ... read more Posted on 07/18/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
The Order of Myths
The Order of Myths: An interview with director Margaret Brown: Mobile, Alabama is home to America’s oldest Mardi Gras celebration. But the elaborate parades and vibrant pageantry have always been segregated along racial lines. With THE ORDER OF MYTHS, Mobile native Margaret Brown escorts us through the distinctions and ... read more Posted on 07/18/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Stop-Loss
Stop-Loss: An interview with director Kimberly Peirce: STOP-LOSS director Kimberly Peirce’s first film since the Academy Award-winning Boys Don’t Cry, is a topical and emotionally penetrating drama examining a government policy that has affected the lives of more than 80,000 of America’s brave men and women in uniform. The ... read more Posted on 07/18/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
The Little Engine That Could...Murder You.
The Little Engine That Could...Murder You By Kirk Faulkner Trains have always been a good place to kill someone. Not so much if you are the murderer (or murderee, for that matter) but if you are making a film about a murder, put the whole thing on a train and ... read more Posted on 07/18/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) About a "Boy"A Review of John Crowley's Post-Prison Coming-of-Age Tale, "Boy A" By Damon Smith “The past is not the future,” opines Peter Mullan’s Terry in the buzzed-about British film “Boy A.” But the past is exactly what’s got hold of Jack Burridge (Andrew Garfield), the sensitive young man that Terry, a ... read more Posted on 07/18/08 by: DGSmith Comments (0 ) Mumblecore's First Horror Flick: And No, That's Not the Unknown ComicA Review of "Baghead" By Damon Smith Depending on whether your taste runs to (or far away from) talky, low-budget twentysomething relationship comedies by the likes of Andrew Bujalski and Joe Swanberg, you either loved or hated Mark and Jay Duplass’s 2006 debut, “The Puffy Chair,” a keystone of the ... read more Posted on 07/18/08 by: DGSmith Comments (0 ) 
Transsiberian
Transsiberian: An interview with director Brad Anderson: In TRANSSIBERIAN, an American couple, Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer), decide to take the long way home from their recent sojourn in Asia on the legendary Trans-siberian Express train from Beijing to Moscow. On their way, they meet another couple ... read more Posted on 07/11/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
When Did You Last See Your Father?
When Did You Last See Your Father?: An interview with actor Colin Firth: WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER? is an unflinching exploration of a father/son relationship, as Blake Morrison deals with his father Arthur’s terminal illness and imminent death. Blake’s memories of everything funny, embarrassing and upsetting ... read more Posted on 07/07/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Full Battle Rattle
Full Battle Rattle: An interview with directors Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss: In California's Mojave Desert, the US Army has built a "virtual Iraq" - a billion dollar urban warfare simulation - and populated it with hundreds of Iraqi role-players. FULL BATTLE RATTLE follows an Army Battalion through the ... read more Posted on 07/06/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Hard to Focus on the Dopeness When There is So Much WACKNESS
Hard to Focus on the Dopeness When There is So Much WACKNESS It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip hop and wafting with the sweet aroma of marijuana. The newly-inaugurated mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, is only beginning to implement his anti-fun initiatives ... read more Posted on 07/03/08 by: FCFeatures 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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