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 ) |
Dude, didn't you make Dead Ringers?
Review of Eastern Promises
Dang, I haven't been watching much of anything lately. I blame "higher education." It's the worst. I recommend no one pursue advanced degrees. They are expensive and cost you any semblance of a life. ANYWAY, in my unending pursuit of watching films that everyone else watched months or years ago, ... read more Posted on 02/28/08 by: Aaron Comments (0 ) Juno
Review of Juno
It is probably jealousy, but I do not like when the best screenplay Academy Award gets treated like the door prize at a bachelor party. Plenty of people in the film industry were very angry about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck winning for Good Will Hunting, so why do I ... read more Posted on 02/26/08 by: A Nick Comments (1 ) Meh
Review of The Chocolate War
A freshman in a Catholic private school, Jerry Renault (Ilan Mitchell-Smith, but you know him as Wyatt from Weird Science) is subjected to the whims of a bullying secret society of classmates. They force him to resist taking part in the school's annual chocolate sales as part of a prank, ... read more Posted on 02/22/08 by: Aaron Comments (0 ) True film love
Review of Be Kind Rewind
Audiences have been anticipating Michel Gondry's latest feature with baited breath, and the wait has been worth it. Be Kind Rewind is a spirited and moving homage to the pleasures and pains of being a movie lover. Mos Def stars as Mike, a beleaguered long-time employee of the Be Kind ... read more Posted on 02/22/08 by: Aaron Comments (0 ) Balzac Adaptation Is An Exercise In Restraint
Review of The Duchess Of Langeais
At a ball, Armand de Montriveau (Guillame Depardieu) is relating a story to Antoinette de Langeais (Jeanne Balibar) and her friend. He was recently in London, and was shown the axe used to kill an infamous king. The only instructions he received from the executioner, he tells Antoinette, were: "Don't ... read more Posted on 02/20/08 by: FC Scribes Comments (0 ) A Real Nightmare
Review of Cassandra's Dream
I'll add this to the other BLAH movies that have come out in the indie houses - that now house Diary of the Dead, and Oscar revivals hoping to booster their attendance and cashflow. This year has been dreadful with hopefuls that shot high, but landed on a pile of ... read more Posted on 02/18/08 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) Jeez, how many great songs did this guy write?
Review of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
"Runnin' Down a Dream," Peter Bogdanovich's love letter to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, is a fine reminder of why classic rock is, well, classic. Petty and the band are inspiring: the fierce integrity, the superb musicianship, their hard-won serenity, and - of course - the staggeringly deep, consistently excellent ... read more Posted on 02/15/08 by: garagista1 Comments (0 ) A French movie about sex. . . SURPRISE!
Review of Vendredi soir
Vendredi Soir is one night in the life of a woman, Laure, before she moves in with her partner. A Friday night, to be exact. Laure has spent the day packing all of her possessions before she gets in her car to head to a friend's home for a dinner ... read more Posted on 02/15/08 by: Aaron Comments (0 ) "Death Game" - A Review
Review of Death Game
The DVD of this is a terrible, terrible DVD, but... You should endure that. A 40 year-old Seymour Cassel plays George, a happily married man with two children. The kids are visiting their grandparents out of town, when one of them gets sick and wants his mommy. So Mom goes, ... read more Posted on 02/13/08 by: Jeff. Comments (0 ) Documentary
Review of Taxi to the Dark Side
This is a documentary that requires a strong stomach and a sense of outrage and shame. Shame that the tortures in Bogram Air Force Base, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib are committed by our own soldiers and marines. The film does not spare the upper echelons of our government, right up ... read more Posted on 02/13/08 by: Texgotham Comments (0 ) The Witnesses
Review of The Witnesses
Caught this at the IFC last weekend and I really liked it. It was one of those movies that I could've sat in the theatre for another hour or two watching what happened to the characters. The script was engaging and the acting was genuine. I thought it was very ... read more Posted on 02/13/08 by: TwilightZone Comments (0 ) Thug-campers versus kill-puppies
Review of Wilderness
Michael J. Bassett's 2006 follow-up to Deathwatch realizes the potential that earlier film hinted at. Wilderness finds a group of kids from a juvenile detention centre placed on an isolated island for a supervised camping retreat. Unfortunately, the planned youth bonding exercise goes astray when campers start showing up dismembered. ... read more Posted on 02/12/08 by: Aaron Comments (0 ) Wake Up
Review of Waking Life
Waking Life, Richard Linklater's successor to his first movie, Slacker, is a series of vignettes that discuss subjects of physics, language, after-life, existentialism, and dreams. There is no plot per se other than the fact that your following Wiley Wiggens through a sort of dream like trance that takes him ... read more Posted on 02/12/08 by: matt2648 Comments (0 ) Low Ratings are a Killer
Review of Network
I just finished reading a book called The Nightly News by Jonathan Hickman which is a graphic novel about a cult of men and woman who in one way or another had their lives ruined by the news media so in retaliation they decide to cause havoc and mayhem by ... read more Posted on 02/12/08 by: matt2648 Comments (0 ) Deja Vu, Anyone?
Review of In Bruges
This film was mildly entertaining, and particularly strong in identifying with the audience and playing on our emotions. But, it did feel like the second coming of Cassandra's Dream - here's Collin Farrell, and he's just killed someone, he feels really guilty, wants to turn himself in, or do himself ... read more Posted on 02/11/08 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) Should've Scared Me Away...
Review of Teeth
This film was particularly awful because of the serious content, the digusting special effects and the black comedy that it painted itself to be. Not for a moment did I identify with any of the characters. I felt disconnected the entire time and I wish that I hadn't used my ... read more Posted on 02/11/08 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) Assassination
Review of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Bloated, epic, boring, and beautiful. All of those words can easily describe The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Andrew Dominik’s second feature is ambitious and successful in some part but flawed nonetheless. Similar to Dominik’s first feature Chopper, which focused on a charismatic criminal, “Assassination” shows ... read more Posted on 02/10/08 by: matt2648 Comments (0 ) The Lookout
Review of The Lookout
A good heist thriller usually needs to have three elements to make it good: 1) involving main character, 2) interesting heist, 3) and charismatic supporting characters. When you could figure out those three things then everything else will fall into place. Scott Frank's directorial debut takes those three aspects and ... read more Posted on 02/10/08 by: matt2648 Comments (0 ) Misty, water coloured memories
Review of My Winnipeg
Guy Maddin's latest film is definitely a break from his long followed approach, but not too sharp of one. Those familiar with his earlier films like Saddest Music in the World and Careful will know of Maddin's penchant for cribbing heavily from the aesthetic and traditions of the silent film ... read more Posted on 02/08/08 by: Aaron Comments (0 ) HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY IRAN
Review of Persepolis
With all of the noise coming from our elected officials regarding the Iranian "threat" it is valuable to hear and see about contemporary Iran from the viewpoint of an Iranian family. Although it is filmed in a cartoon style this is no cartoon, but an excellent view through the eyes ... read more Posted on 02/06/08 by: EDDIEE Comments (0 ) Art collectors are chumps
Review of My Kid Could Paint That
Marla Olmstead was only four years old when she became the subject of countless articles and news stories around the world. Her abstract art canvases were selling for thousands of dollars and hails of 'genius' and 'prodigy' readily flowed from the mouths of collectors and dealers. Her parents were quite ... read more Posted on 02/04/08 by: Aaron Comments (0 ) Rebuilding on all that is lost
Review of Incendiary
Osama Bin Laden has had a huge impact on many people world wide, but how many of them have written him to tell him how he has changed their lives? In Incendiary, one victim does just that. A young woman’s life unravels when a suicide terrorist attack at a soccer ... read more Posted on 02/02/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) An unusual approach
Review of Be Like Others
Director Tanaz Eshaghian has tackled a very unusual and surprising subject in her documentary from Iran, Be Like Others. In this documentary, Eshaghian explores the conflicts faced by Iran’s homosexual population, who according to Islamic law could face the death penalty if caught in a homosexual relationship. However, as one ... read more Posted on 02/02/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) A story lost in transition
Review of Ballast
The wonderful thing about the independent film genre is that it allows for new talent and ideas to be explored honestly without all of the usual commercial trappings. Lance Hamme’s Ballast, in that regard, does not disappoint the viewer. The story focuses on a young boy, James, trying to come ... read more Posted on 02/02/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) A new twist on the battle of the sexes
Review of Absurdistan
Absurdistan is a hilarious movie that takes place in a fictitious village. The story centers on what happens when the very source of life, water, dries up. Two young lovers, Aya and Temelko, who were born the same day, same time, same room were ‘engaged’ at four and ‘married’ at ... read more Posted on 02/02/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) Story and performance make Kenny Leon’s A Raisin in the Sun Shine
Review of A Raisin in the Sun
Combine Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald, and Sean Combs, and you can expect magic. Kenny Leon’s adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning play A Raisin in the Sun doesn’t disappoint. Leon’s vision of the story—which encapsulates 1950s America, the difficult dance of love and family dynamics and financial struggles, and true grit ... read more Posted on 02/01/08 by: hollystarley Comments (0 ) |
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