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 Before Sunset
This beautiful, quiet film is a delight for the senses. You owe it to yourself to see it. Posted on 09/25/07 by: austinstorm Comments (1 ) This title is actually a clever pun about weddings, I guess
Review of Margot at the Wedding
Another damned “I love it, wouldn’t change a thing review.” I’m sorry, but it’s Noah Baumbach’s fault. Baumbach’s film are a big part of my personal canon. I can watch his work many times and feel something different with each viewing as time passes and my life changes. I remember ... read more Posted on 09/18/07 by: Aaron Comments (1 ) Review: Deficit
Review of Déficit
With Deficit, actor Gael Garcia Bernal (Babel, Y tu mama tambien) makes his directorial debut. Having collaborated with the likes Alfonso Cuaron and Michel Gondry on past films, one could have high expectations for the actor’s own filmmaking. The story itself is simple enough: while their parents are away on ... read more Posted on 09/17/07 by: calmac Comments (1 ) Average Cable Music Television Journey
Review of Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who
When you see "produced by VH1" in the opening credits, you have a pretty good idea of what's coming. It's a competent documentary featuring a lot of great music and live footage, but a fairly pedestrian one. Most of the story is told through loads of recent first hand interviews ... read more Posted on 09/16/07 by: Aaron Comments (0 ) I'm Not There at TIFF
Review of I'm Not There
There have been a couple of documentaries about Bob Dylan that have become the gold standard for not only telling his story, but for music documentaries in general. Don’t Look Back and No Direction Home are both pretty well unassailable, so how do you make a narrative film that can ... read more Posted on 09/16/07 by: Aaron Comments (0 ) Review: King of California
Review of King of California
At this point in time, Michael Douglas’s celebrity is so buried under his marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones that his even his random appearances in the You, Me, and Duprees of the world barely register. So it’s good to see him get out there and act once in a while, something ... read more Posted on 09/13/07 by: calmac Comments (0 ) Review: Cassandra's Dream
Review of Cassandra's Dream
Cassandra’s Dream follows the trend of latter-day Woody Allen films started with Match Point: tight, crime-based drama, with only sparse traces of the comedies he used to make. In this mode of filmmaking, Allen’s films show more directly the influence of Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini that he’s often cited. ... read more Posted on 09/13/07 by: calmac Comments (7 ) Review: Paranoid Park
Review of Paranoid Park
The last few films by director Gus Van Sant were part of what he called his “Death Trilogy”. But there the death was centered on a protagonist and, unbeknownst to them, just around the corner: Elephant follows a handful of high school students in the hours before their school is ... read more Posted on 09/13/07 by: calmac Comments (0 ) Review: Sleuth
Review of Sleuth
Having started life as a play in 1970 and been made into a movie shortly thereafter starring Michael Caine, Sleuth has now been remade, by way of a rewrite by playwright Harold Pinter. The story itself revolves around two men involved with the same woman: an older man that she ... read more Posted on 09/13/07 by: calmac Comments (0 ) Review: Across The Universe
Review of Across the Universe
The idea of a musical featuring the songs of the Beatles might give you pause, if either because of the atrocious 1970’s attempt at just that (Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Harts Club Band starring the Bee Gees) or because it sounds like a timely cash-in. Thankfully, director Julie Taymor approaches the ... read more Posted on 09/13/07 by: calmac Comments (0 ) Not So Scandalous
Review of Notes on a Scandal
I tried to watch this film the other evening and actually ended up shutting it off. I don't know when I have ever seen Judy Dench give such a poor performance. The movie starts out trying to be a combination of a class drama and a morality tale. Dench portrays ... read more Posted on 09/13/07 by: evonness Comments (0 ) Michael Moore and Captain Mike Across America
Review of Captain Mike Across America
When Michael Moore’s last film, Sicko, was released in the summer of 2007, the consensus seemed to be that it was the pop-documentarian’s most accomplished work to date. Critics pointed to Moore’s relative absence from the film—he first appears on camera 45 minutes into running time—and this withdraw from the ... read more Posted on 09/09/07 by: calmac Comments (0 ) Very funny, quirky movie
Review of Live Free or Die
This is a fantastic little independent film, produced by Think Film. It's a very dark comedy about a young man in a small town who features himself the most dangerous criminal of all times, but actually, he's just a bumbling coward. Aaron Stanford does an amazing job in the lead ... read more Posted on 09/06/07 by: evonness Comments (0 ) Great movie
Review of Almost Famous
Good soundtrack, nice storyline, overall a great movie. Posted on 09/04/07 by: moviefankf Comments (4 ) excellent
Review of Shortbus
Shortbus is a movie not to be missed. Posted on 09/04/07 by: moviefankf Comments (0 ) GOOD
Review of Little Miss Sunshine
THIS IS A GOOD FLIX Posted on 09/04/07 by: review man 2 Comments (0 ) |
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