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 ) |
Frida
Review of Frida
Astounding visuals, good performances...a life almost as exciting as Gabriel Garcia Marquez fiction...made me want to travel to Mexico and see new colors and new angles. Both Hayek and Molina excellent, Posted on 03/27/08 by: lonelypond Comments (0 ) Kissing Jessica Stein
Review of Kissing Jessica Stein
Performances spot on; story perfect -- it might not work out like you want it to, but everything works for the characters so this goes right up there on my extremely well written list. Great for any kind of movie or date night -- everyone should see it. Posted on 03/27/08 by: lonelypond Comments (0 ) Morris' Abu Ghraib Doc Goes Heavy On Style, Light On Content
Review of Standard Operating Procedure
The first note I wrote down during the course of watching Errol Morris' latest doc, Standard Operating Procedure, was: "SO Errol Morris!" And how. If Morris has achieved anything as a filmmaker, it has been the proving of the fact that documentaries allow for just as much stylistic flourish as ... read more Posted on 03/25/08 by: FC Scribes Comments (0 ) Favela Rising
Review of City of Men
Capitalizing on the international popularity of his Brazilian TV series City of Men, which aired on BBC4 in Britain and on the Sundance Channel here in the States, Fernando Mereilles (The Constant Gardener) last year produced a feature-film version of the show, directed by Paulo Morelli and starring Darlan Cunha ... read more Posted on 03/24/08 by: DGSmith Comments (0 ) Kids-Film Hustle
Review of CJ7
I love Stephen Chow. That's part of the reason for the three stars above. CJ7 is not a good film. Not by any stretch. It is however a very very weird one, and that counts for something. CJ7 tells the story of an impoverished father and young son at odds ... read more Posted on 03/15/08 by: Jeff. Comments (1 ) Fine Young CannibalsReview of Doomsday
You know how sometimes movies are released with titles that aren't really their titles overseas on the bootleg VCD market? A film involving a shark will be called DEEP BLUE SEA 2, or random Eugene Levy sex comedy (let's just pretend there are a lot of them, okay?) will be ... read more Posted on 03/15/08 by: Jeff. Comments (0 ) Two Days in Paris
Review of Two Days in Paris
You should really watch this movie. I had seen Adam Goldberg discussing this film on TV, and had made a mental note to check it out, as it seemed that it would be something I would enjoy. A few weeks ago I saw it on DVD and also realized I ... read more Posted on 03/12/08 by: finkies818 Comments (0 ) Review of "The Band's Visit"
Review of The Band's Visit
This is an enjoyable movie, and the highlight is that it's not like every other movie out there. It's all about the journey getting there; the arrival is somewhat anti-climactic. It's in Hebrew and English, with subtitles throughout (even during the English parts), which means you don't miss any dialogue ... read more Posted on 03/11/08 by: Jenny Comments (0 ) Darabont hasn't the foggiest...Review of The Mist
Massive trees are blown through windows, onto cars, and boathouses when a huge storm hits one night. The next day people are a little on edge, and stocking up on supplies at the local supermarket just in case there's a hurricaine on the horizon. A man runs in screaming with ... read more Posted on 03/10/08 by: Jeff. Comments (0 ) Southland Snails
Review of Southland Tales
Richard Kelly's follow-up to Donnie Darko came and went from theatres with little to no fanfare in the US, and didn't even get a theatrical release in Canada. With a wildly bizarre cast that includes the likes of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sean William Scott, Justin Timberlake, ... read more Posted on 03/09/08 by: Jeff. Comments (0 ) Strictly Ballroom
Review of Strictly Ballroom
Funny, so very funny...simplest of stories but perfectly tuned for humor and difficult humor at that. Excellent performances, tremendous dancing and great great fun. Both the musical and comic timing are perfect and this is one of the few movies I recommend to everyone. If only I could figure out ... read more Posted on 03/06/08 by: lonelypond Comments (0 ) The Passion of Joan of Arc
Review of The Passion of Joan of Arc
Caught this early one morning and couldn't turn it off. Very unusual camera angles, very intense... Posted on 03/06/08 by: lonelypond Comments (0 ) Throne of Blood
Review of Throne of Blood
Amazing - great Macbeth adaptation. Very interesting how the Shakespearean story translated into the samurai world. Watched this and the Orson Welles version at the same time and thought Wells cracked the witches, but Kurosawa cracked everything else. Loved the ending -- so appropriate to the place and story. Watch ... read more Posted on 03/06/08 by: lonelypond Comments (0 ) Chasing Amy
Review of Chasing Amy
My favorite of the Kevin Smith movies, although Clerks is the funniest, but the Amy characters are less caricatures. Good performances by all with interesting takes on relationships and their tensions. Plus, a nice inside look at the world of comic books and their creators. Posted on 03/06/08 by: lonelypond Comments (0 ) Topsy-Turvy
Review of Topsy-Turvy
Saw it at the Senator Theatre in Baltimore -- amazing. A film so big it actually filled the huge theatre with its songs and performances. Transforming. Great insight into the creative process and its perils. Deserved every nomination -- should have won more. Amazing. Posted on 03/06/08 by: lonelypond Comments (0 ) Award winner for "Most Unlikely Career Turnaround"
Review of Gone Baby Gone
It turns out Ben Affleck is a far better director than he has ever been as an actor, which is awesome because he is a fucking horrible actor. His directing debut is based on a novel by Dennis LeHane, the same writer behind Mystic River, and follows Boston private investigator ... read more Posted on 03/05/08 by: Aaron Comments (0 ) Sub-sub-Rushmore
Review of Charlie Bartlett
Charlie Bartlett is the story of a precocious and exceedingly wealthy teenage boy who heads to public school after being kicked out of yet another private school for an ingenious scheme. Oh, what hijinks ensue! This one is filled to the brim with one dimensional characters, including the title character. ... read more Posted on 03/02/08 by: Aaron Comments (0 ) |
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