The Bad and the Beautiful on Reel 13Review of The Bad and the Beautiful
Believe it or not, I had not seen this film before and therefore, it was probably my most anticipated Reel 13 film yet. After all, it's a film I supposed was right up my alley – behind the scenes of old Hollywood, it had some actors I was excited about ... read more Posted on 11/20/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Manito on Reel 13Review of Manito
MANITO, the newest Reel 13 Indie about Puerto Rican brothers trying to escape their families' dark past and make ends meet in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood in Washington Heights, was extremely frustrating to watch – it's very dark (Was it timed down? Did the compression in the transfer crush the ... read more Posted on 11/20/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Fetch on Reel 13Review of Fetch
I don’t have very much to say about FETCH, the first animated short to be aired by Reel 13 (all of this week’s contestants on reel13.org were animated, so it’s not as if the viewers made it so). It was fine. Cute, funny – the animation is very ... read more Posted on 11/20/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Rebel Without a Cause on Reel 13Review of Rebel Without a Cause
Every once and a while, a movie comes around that defines a generation. EASY RIDER, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN and THE BREAKFAST CLUB are all Examples. I would argue, however, that no film better defines the generation it came from than REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, which aired last night on ... read more Posted on 11/19/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Wilby Wonderful on Reel 13Review of Wilby Wonderful
Reel 13's latest Indie hails from north of the border and features a cavalcade of present day Canadian stars (if there is such a thing), boasting the likes of Sandra Oh, Paul Gross, Maury Chaykin and the current it-girl Ellen Page (before she became super-cute). The film is a wannabe ... read more Posted on 11/19/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) No Menus Please on Reel 13Review of No Menus Please
These shorts are starting to annoy me with their consistent lack of quality. And in this case, I actually watched all three competitors so I KNOW that there were better films to choose from. This was actually the worst of all three, but I had a feeling it would win. ... read more Posted on 11/19/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) The Magnificent Seven on Reel 13Review of The Magnificent Seven
I love the THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. It was one of the watershed films of my childhood – such a sense of heroism and decency propagated throughout the film. However, watching it again on Reel 13, I was reminded of something that I always sort of knew, but didn't want to ... read more Posted on 11/19/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) A Discouraging Word: Tropic Thunder on DVD
BY SIMON AUGUSTINE Posted on 11/17/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) Boycott Town
Oh Internet, you give voice to the craziest of us. We appreciate that people are upset about Proposition 8, the recently passed ban on gay marriage in California. We also appreciate that people are upset with Mormons for donating upwards of 19 million dollars to help support the divisive proposition. ... read more Posted on 11/17/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) They've Got Short Shorts
Review of bad head day
Our friends over at iThentic.com tipped us off to ShortsNonStop, a year-round short-film festival produced for online and mobile platforms. Presented by Telus, the festival is an extension of the Candian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival, which has been going strong now for 13 years. The most recent ... read more Posted on 11/15/08 by: DGSmith Comments (0 ) |
A Discouraging Word: Tropic Thunder on DVD
BY SIMON AUGUSTINE Posted on 11/17/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Boycott Town
Oh Internet, you give voice to the craziest of us. We appreciate that people are upset about Proposition 8, the recently passed ban on gay marriage in California. We also appreciate that people are upset with Mormons for donating upwards of 19 million dollars to help support the divisive proposition. ... read more Posted on 11/17/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) Manny Farber on Acting
It’s difficult, if not impossible, to pick a favorite moment in Negative Space, the collected writings on film by the late painter-critic Manny Farber (co-written from 1975 onward with his partner Patricia Patterson). Brash arguments, heavily allusive turns of phrase, and coruscating insights await a first-time (or repeat) reader almost ... read more Posted on 11/14/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Multiplex: BoltShamed by Pixar’s far superior CG animation and box-office hegemony, Walt Disney Studios gobbled up the pacesetting animavericks back in 2006. Now they’re rolling out an old grindhouse format for their latest lost-puppy odyssey: 3-D. Far out! Too bad the talking animals look like they’re grimacing from Bell’s palsy. (Did ... read more Posted on 11/12/08 by: FilmCatcher5 Comments (1 ) 
Arthouse: The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)While many DPs labor in obscurity, cinematographer extraordinaire Ellen Kuras, whose credits include Summer of Sam, Neil Young: Heart of Gold, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is a bona fide star lenser, having worked with a who’s who of top indie-film talent. Anyone who needs convincing of her ... read more Posted on 11/12/08 by: FilmCatcher5 Comments (0 ) 
DVD: The Complete Monty Pythons Flying CircusThe circus is in town! Witty, irreverent, bawdy, and side-splittingly funny, the Pythons (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin) were an anarchic bunch of nutters who, beginning with a 1969 sketch-comedy TV program, married droll, sacred-cow-spearing humor to an absurdist, stream-of-consciousness presentational style, often courtesy of ... read more Posted on 11/12/08 by: FilmCatcher5 Comments (0 ) 
Online: After LifeIn the perfect afterlife, we’d all be making movies. That’s the idea behind Hirokazu Kore-eda’s gentle, melancholic drama, about a purgatorial facility where the newly deceased are asked to select one memory from their life—a moment they wouldn’t mind reliving forever—and then recreate it on a soundstage for the cameras. ... read more Posted on 11/12/08 by: FilmCatcher5 Comments (0 ) 
TV: End of the CenturyThe Story of the Ramones: 4:15pm, Wednesday, November 19, TMCe: Thank God we didn’t have to wait until the end of the next century for this story-of doc on the Queens-bred Blitzkrieg Boppers. Loud, leather-jacketed teens who played lightning-speed three-chord rock and helped put CBGB’s, New York’s punk-rock equivalent of ... read more Posted on 11/12/08 by: FilmCatcher5 Comments (0 ) Five Upcoming Remakes We Really Don’t Want to See
These days, the mania for (mostly foreign, mostly Asian) remakes in Hollywood is a zero-sum game that’s reaching a point of neuron-obliterating absurdity. While some director/film pairings make an addled kind of sense (Herzog goosing Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant), others are downright puzzling or just demoralizing to contemplate. Posted on 11/12/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
NEWS: The Age of "Innocence"
The Sundance Institute today announced the finalists for its 2009 Sundance Institute/NHK International Filmmakers Award, which is given to four emerging indie-film talents who board members feel “will make a significant contribution to world cinema.” Heady stuff, so I was thrilled to see that one of the European nominees ... read more Posted on 11/07/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) |
Godard at Film Forum
Review of Godard's 60s
The recent Godard retrospective at Film Forum arrives at a time when a sweep of sentiments and feelings for that period known as the Sixties has sparked on the radar of New York’s cinema culture. “Godard’s 60s,” as this series of nineteen feature films and three shorts by the French ... read more Posted on 05/20/08 by: Ricky D'Ambrose Comments (0 ) Teeth
Review of Teeth
This film was not what I expected. While I do enjoy the occasional bloody, gory film, this one went a little far with the gore. The general storyline is interesting and the acting was okay but it wasn't necessary to keep showing the bloody...well, I won't ruin it for those ... read more Posted on 05/19/08 by: Carolinea0 Comments (0 ) Chinatown
Review of Chinatown
What makes films so great are their ability to be appreciated on so many levels. For your average moviegoer, Chinatown is a great suspense flick. Also, any close observer will notice the immense detail that Roman Polanski payed attention to while directing the film: Jack Nicholson is, as always, perfect ... read more Posted on 05/17/08 by: AlgaeFungi Comments (0 ) Review: RecountReview of Recount
Last night, I had the pleasure of attending an advanced screening of HBO's new film, Recount. It retells the true, and mind-boggling, story of the 2000 Presidential Election confusion at Florida. This material, as one would presume, is tough for all of its audience to appreciate. The director, Jay Roach, ... read more Posted on 05/15/08 by: AlgaeFungi Comments (0 ) Married With A Psycho
Review of Married Life
Was really looking forward to this film, as I have been disappointed in the Independent Fare for the last few months, and was neither impressed nor disappointed. The film was finely acted, and well directed, yet the story was just a really depressing lifeless mess. Without a doubt, the main ... read more Posted on 05/02/08 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) |
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