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 ) 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 ) |
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 ) 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 ) 
Multiplex: Cadillac Records“Sex had a sound.” Yessiree, Trailer Voice Man, and her name was Beyoncé. Frankly, this Oscar-baiting biopic of Chess Records founder Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody) has too many big-name personalities (Jeffrey Wright, Mos Def, Cedric the Entertainer) playing too flippin’ many R&B legends (Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Big Willie Dixon) ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: FilmCatcher5 Comments (1 ) 
Arthouse: Nobel SonWhat the world needs right now isn’t a hero, but someone who can parse this loopy, vicious, anything-goes film, part head case, part Maximum Entertainment Vehicle. It’s as if some mad scientist fed genre films into a cinematic super-collider, spliced in some clichéd gags (aren’t poetry readings and academic soirees ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: FilmCatcher5 Comments (1 ) 
DVD: White DogWe’ll always love ’80s heartthrob Kristy McNichol, and not just because of her unwholesome turn as a summer-camp virgin who loses it to Matt Dillon in Little Darlings. Sure, her film work was mostly an embarrassment (seen The Pirate Movie lately?), and once Dynamite! magazine stopped calling, TV was probably ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: FilmCatcher5 Comments (1 ) 
Online: Junktopia
Chris Marker is best known, perhaps, for his landmark sci-fi short Le Jetée, the inspiration for Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys. This mini-doc, a wordless tour of a beach on the outskirts of San Francisco where anonymous artists have fashioned sculpture from tidally borne flotsam and jetsam, finds the French essay-film ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: FilmCatcher5 Comments (1 ) |
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Review of Lars and the Real Girl
A great movie about family, love, and mental illness - all of which we all have at one time or another (even if we care to ignore it) Gosling turns in another teriffic performance, as does Paul Schneider and Emily Mortimer. The battle of loneliness versus hospitality and love is ... read more Posted on 10/29/07 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) Just Nine?
Review of Nine Lives
Insightful and visual, this film is reality film at its best, with an all star cast, dealing with real life situations, chemistry, and consequences. Stellar performances all around, but the division of the nine stories made it seem a bit drawn out. Dakota Fanning, Jason Isaacs, Glenn Close, Robin Wright ... read more Posted on 10/29/07 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) Living With Choices...
Review of Friends With Money
First off, an all star cast drives this amazing Drama vehicle by detailing the lives of very different, but similar, friends. Those that have money, and those that are striving to make ends meet. Frances McDormand shines, as does Jason Isaacs, and Jennifer Aniston. The film's premise opens the dialogue ... read more Posted on 10/29/07 by: dougiejr3 Comments (1 ) Funny, but its no Office
Review of Dan in Real Life
So maybe my standards were set too high for Steve Carell. The trailer for Dan in Real Life is nothing but laughs but the movie itself is really quite a tear jerker. The movie names itself a comedy but I'd have to label it a 'dramedy' really. I was surprised ... read more Posted on 10/29/07 by: quelbellrw Comments (1 ) Demme's doc is an interesting look at the crossroads of ideology and punditry
Review of Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains
by Zachary Wigon Living under the administration that currently occupies the White House, it could be difficult to remember that some Presidents have had excellent grips on the minutiae of policy details. Bill Clinton did – it’s one of the reasons why he was so beloved – but oftentimes, it seems ... read more Posted on 10/28/07 by: FC Scribes Comments (0 ) Before There Was Star Wars, There Was...
Review of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Groundbreaking in so many ways, but did not expect anything less from Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey is an exceptionally thought provoking film about evolution, control, and the brevity of life. With only 37 minutes of dialogue, much is left to the visual, as well as the abstract. Also, ... read more Posted on 10/22/07 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) My Favorite Movie of All Time
Review of Pan's Labyrinth
Pan's Labyrinth, an independent film directed, written, and produced by the amazing mexican man with the name of Guillermo del Toro. This is his 6th movie and possibly his best. He premiered it at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and his film has won 3 Academy Awards including Best Cinematography, ... read more Posted on 10/22/07 by: lauren Comments (0 ) Feel-good biopic fails to reach beyond the level of facile sentimentality
Review of Music Within
There’s something to be said for formulas. When formulas work, they work. This goes without saying in the realm of science. In the realm of art, the success or failure of a formula is given a bit more variability. One wants to follow the formula closely enough that its past ... read more Posted on 10/16/07 by: ZacharyWigon Comments (0 ) Raul Ruiz's excessively expressionistic film just winds up a jumbled mess
Review of Klimt
It’s hardly original to point out that, in works of art, the division between form and content is a porous one. There are numerous films – many of them excellent – wherein the style and formal choices made exert a strong influence on how the narrative, characters and ideas in ... read more Posted on 10/16/07 by: ZacharyWigon Comments (0 ) Ben Affleck is better director than actor
Review of Gone Baby Gone
In Ben Affleck's directorial debut two young private investigators work the hard knock streets of Boston looking for a missing 4 year old girl. Casey Affleck plays the lead detective alongside his girlfriend and business partner. As the investigation continues it pulls at their relationship and challenges it beyond the ... read more Posted on 10/16/07 by: quelbellrw Comments (0 ) Pleasant Surprise
Review of King of California
Spectacularly acted by both Michael Douglas and Evan Rachel Wood, this film chronicles the father-daughter relationship in a more realistic way than most films. Douglas is a bipolar manic depressive that has just been released by a Mental Institution and readjusts to 'normal' life with his daughter of 16 (Wood). ... read more Posted on 10/16/07 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) Wes Anderson's best to date
Review of The Darjeeling Limited
In Wes Anderson's newest quirky comedy we meet three brothers played by Jason Schwartzman, Adrian Brody, and Owen Wilson. Having not spoken for a year following the death of their father and the abandonment of their mother, they have joined together on a spiritual journey to become the brothers they ... read more Posted on 10/15/07 by: quelbellrw Comments (0 ) Great thinking man's film*
Review of Michael Clayton
Over the weekend I had the chance to catch Michael Clayton starring George Clooney. This film surrounds the high powered world of chemical company and the firm that protects it's dirty little secrets. Michael Clayton (George Clooney) has a very important role with the Law firm that is getting in ... read more Posted on 10/15/07 by: quelbellrw Comments (0 ) What If?
Review of The Last Temptation of Christ
As a Christian, myself, I might be a little biased towards this movie, but really don't understand why it came under so much fire when it was released! Marty directed a masterful tale, from Kazantzakis, that details the life of Christ. From His upbringing, to His 3 year mission, and ... read more Posted on 10/10/07 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) Katie Holmes Shines
Review of Pieces of April
In only one of two movies that I've ever seen, that Katie Holmes does a terrific job, this film is definitely a keeper! Holmes drives this piece as a young girl, trying to find her place in the world - and in her family. Dealing with the emotional stress of ... read more Posted on 10/09/07 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) Will Melt Your Heart!
Review of In America
This film was absolutely an amazing gem to find at a local theatre! Not only did it make me cry, but also takes you on a heartwarming journey about being a part of a family - new beginnings, loving your family, and those that become a part of it. Djimon ... read more Posted on 10/09/07 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) Steady But True
Review of Michael Clayton
A wonderful ensemble cast, and a teriffic script drive this legal thriller starring George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack and Tom Wilkinson. All four deliver solid performances in this film about an Environmental Company, unorth, that has inadvertently done harm to thousands of people and caused deaths through their environment ... read more Posted on 10/09/07 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) HIlarious and heart warming!
Review of Lars and the Real Girl
Ryan Gosling plays Lars in this comedic and heartwarming film about a guy who is lonely and struggles to deal with it in his small Wisconsin town. In order to help him cope with his loneliness Lars orders a 'doll' , Bianca, and makes her his girlfriend. Even though initially ... read more Posted on 10/08/07 by: quelbellrw Comments (0 ) Warm and Inviting Love Story
Review of The Jane Austen Book Club
This film centers around the six novels that Jane Austen penned, and the uncanny relevance that these novels have in the lives of the six individuals that are a part of a book club. The book club meets once a month to discuss a novel - each member having read ... read more Posted on 10/07/07 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) De Palma aims high with this ambitious fake-doc, but fails to make the most of a novel concept
Review of Redacted
by Zachary Wigon “What we are watching as we sit paralyzed in our fold-down seats isn’t ‘like a film’; it is a film. With a script, a screenplay, that has to be followed unswervingly. The casting and the technical and financial resources have all been meticulously scheduled: these are professionals at ... read more Posted on 10/04/07 by: FC Scribes Comments (0 ) Movie Review: Lust, Caution (2007)
Review of Lust, Caution
Lust, Caution (2007) Starring: Tony Leung, Wei Tang, Joan Chen Directed by: Ang Lee Written by: Eileen Chang (story), James Schamus (screenplay) MPAA Rating: NC-17 for explicit sexuality In Japanese occupied China during the 1940’s, a resistance to the Chinese oppression is thriving. A group of school friends, upon hearing ... read more Posted on 10/04/07 by: beccajane67 Comments (0 ) Interesting but vague
Review of Lust, Caution
Ang Lee's new film 'Lust, Caution' was great, no really. The 157 minute run-time was a little long but we all know how Ang likes his movies. The one thing that this movie really didn't have that I was surprised was not there was the beautiful cinematography that Ang's other ... read more Posted on 10/04/07 by: quelbellrw Comments (0 ) My new fave movie ever!
Review of Across the Universe
When I saw that Oprah was featuring this movie on her show, it made me a little skeptical about how good it was. I saw Across the Universe at the Angelika last night and it is a must see for anyone who loves 3 things: 1. musicals 2. The Beatles ... read more Posted on 10/03/07 by: quelbellrw Comments (0 ) |
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