Hollywood's Classic Sci-Fi Fixation
BY DAMON SMITH Posted on 12/04/08 by: FCFeatures 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 ) 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 ) |
Hollywood's Classic Sci-Fi Fixation
BY DAMON SMITH Posted on 12/04/08 by: FCFeatures 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 ) |
Lucian Pintilie's "Sunday at Six"Review of "Sunday at Six"
One distinctive feature of Lucian Pintilie’s Duminica la ora/Sunday at Six (1965) is its use of interruptions. In the film, an oncoming train quickly silences an exchange between protagonists Radu (Dan Nutu) and Anca (Irina Petrescu), both young, militant communists engaged in a love affair threatened by Party administrators. The ... read more Posted on 04/30/08 by: Ricky D'Ambrose Comments (0 ) The Event That Never Was: Corneliu Porumboiu's "12:08 East of Bucharest"
Review of 12:08 East of Bucharest
The Romanian title of Porumboiu’s 2006 film is A fost sau n-a fost, or Was There or Wasn’t There? “There” refers to Romania’s December 1989 revolution – or “revolution,” depending on who’s being asked – a topic discussed in the space of a local television broadcast featuring two pitiable middle-aged ... read more Posted on 04/30/08 by: Ricky D'Ambrose Comments (0 ) Tell No One Transcends Its Genre Narrative
Review of Tell No One
Tell No One Transcends Its Genre Narrative Tell No One, Guillame Canet's adaptation of American novelist Harlan Coben's drug-store paperback, is a telling example of what Jean-Luc Godard once said in regard to his film Contempt: "The best novels to adapt are not the classics, but the paperbacks to ... read more Posted on 04/27/08 by: ZacharyWigon Comments (0 ) My Hot Docs adventure continues.
Review of Dreams with Sharp Teeth
This is only one movie I bothered leaving my house for today. Going anywhere other than my kitchen seemed like a daunting experience, so I put off several films until I felt guilty at the prospect at ditching a friend I agreed to meet at this Harlan Ellison doc. Leaving ... read more Posted on 04/26/08 by: Aaron Comments (0 ) 2001: A Space Odyssey
Review of 2001: A Space Odyssey
If I were watching this at this hour on TV right now, I'd be drifting in and out, much like the storyline always seems to between the obelisks. I'll grant that there are some stunning visuals and as a person who writes film scripts mostly lacking in dialogue, it seems ... read more Posted on 04/22/08 by: lonelypond Comments (0 ) A Question of Right or Wrong
Review of The Counterfeiters
The Counterfeiters, 2008’s Oscar winner for best foreign film, is not your typical WWII movie. This is not a movie that demonstrates the vast scale of the war, or a movie that splatters the horror of the war across the screen in vivid Technicolor. No, if you want the traditional ... read more Posted on 04/19/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) My Blueberry Nights
Review of My Blueberry Nights
Going in to see this film, I had high hopes. This film looked to be quite good, with such a stellar cast and all. As it started however, I felt less than satisfied after the first ten minutes through. First of all, the camera quality was poor when Elizabeth and ... read more Posted on 04/19/08 by: MySharona10 Comments (0 ) Out of the black of silence comes...
Review of Blast of Silence
Born out of pain and instilled with hate and anger, Baby Face Frankie Bono is a hit man who knows all that matters is to get the job done. This is the premise of Allen Baron’s overlooked Noir masterpiece from the early 60’s. One of the last of its kind, ... read more Posted on 04/17/08 by: matt2648 Comments (0 ) Smart idea, smart actors, but...
Review of Smart People
Loved the cast and the idea for the movie, but ended up being rather underwhelmed. Dennis Quaid's character was so depressed, bitter, and mean that he was hard to root for, and his romance with Sarah Jessica Parker's character seemed less than believable. Quaid's acting was really good, though (I ... read more Posted on 04/15/08 by: stick Comments (0 ) Bullets Over Broadway
Review of Bullets Over Broadway
I'm not the biggest Woody Allen fan but the war between Jennifer Tilly and Chaz Palmintieri that only he knows is occurring is great. Very funny, especially Dianne Wiest but Palmintieri's character made the movie for me...well written (of course) and great backstage scenes and insight into the creative and ... read more Posted on 04/11/08 by: lonelypond Comments (0 ) Night on Earth
Review of Night on Earth
Really enjoyed this film...Benigni's segment was so funny that it became a joke we returned to for months...all very nice performances; don't really remember much about the various characters but remember it as an interesting detour into other people's nights. Posted on 04/11/08 by: lonelypond Comments (0 ) "America," Not America
Review of My Blueberry Nights
No one is disputing the fact that Wong Kar-wai is a very serious, seriously gifted filmmaker. Not one of the critics that have given the film across-the-board pans. Wong has come to be known as a formal master of the highest degree, but in My Blueberry Nights, he pushes his ... read more Posted on 04/08/08 by: FC Scribes Comments (0 ) Hsiao-Hsien's Latest Substitutes Underhanded Realism For Wide-Eyed Idealism
Review of Flight Of the Red Balloon
Growing up is hard to do. Albert Lamorisse's seminal 1956 film, The Red Balloon, was about the pains and complications of coming of age, shown in marked contrast with the easygoing lifestyle of being a child. But Lamorisse's film itself has come of age - it turns 52 this year ... read more Posted on 04/04/08 by: FC Scribes Comments (0 ) All That Heaven Allows
Review of All That Heaven Allows
Probably Douglas Sirk's finest film. The colors are phenomenal and it's really great to see Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in these performances. Sirk was a master artist and this film's impact was of course huge, influencing filmmakers decades later and across the globe which can be seen in Fassbiner's ... read more Posted on 04/04/08 by: JupinFilm007 Comments (0 ) 2001: A Space Odyssey
Review of 2001: A Space Odyssey
I think this is a beautiful film. I think this is a fascinating and smart film. Getting past your first visit is the biggest leap of faith and after that, you are taken to another level all together. As a giant Kubrick fan, I think this is his master achievement. ... read more Posted on 04/04/08 by: JupinFilm007 Comments (0 ) Zoo
Review of Zoo
This is one of the worst films I've ever seen. Honestly, I use the word 'film' as loosely as I possibly can. Their re-enactments are laughable as is their attempt to get the audience to sympathize with people who actually think it's okay to have sex with animals. Give me ... read more Posted on 04/04/08 by: JupinFilm007 Comments (1 ) |
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