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 ) |
Adam's Rib
Review of Adam's Rib
Not the best Tracy-Hepburn -- my favorite is Desk Set-- but here they retain all the trademark spark. Some very very funny bits, excellent support cast in David Wayne and Judy Holliday, but too contrived. Pat and Mike better for the battle of the sexes. Posted on 08/28/08 by: lonelypond Comments (0 ) Just One Hit and You Will Be High Enough to See:
Review of Pineapple Express
JeanLuc Smokehard here, with his first review: Where should I start, where should I start…. Hold on (spark, pull, bubble, inhale, exhale) OK, I’m ready. Packing into a 7 o clock showing on opening weekend of Pineapple Express, one might be overwhelmed by the second hand stoned-ness. Beavis and Butt-Head-esque ... read more Posted on 08/19/08 by: JLSmokehard Comments (2 ) The Auteur
Review of The Auteur
This mocumentary is one of the cleverest and funniest I've seen. It manages to send up both the porn industry, and the fawning "artist retrospective" industry as well. A few friends of mine saw it, and despite our varying tastes we agreed that it was our "Best Movie you will ... read more Posted on 08/11/08 by: thatneuro Comments (1 ) Equilibri-dumbReview of Equilibrium
You would have to try really hard to come up with a more predictable plot. About five minutes into the movie, the untrained viewer can sketch out each plot twist all the way to the end. The fight scenes? Superior. On par with the Matrix. If you must watch this ... read more Posted on 08/10/08 by: eveross Comments (1 ) Don't let the title scare you offReview of Son of Rambow
What to do on a dreary, rainy day? Well, go to the movies of course, but did I really want to drive down to Salt Lake to see one? No, not really, but am I glad I did! My oldest daughter and I had an incredible bonding experience watching a ... read more Posted on 08/01/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) Batman has grown up!Review of The Dark Knight
While very dark, The Dark Knight is also enlightening. If you were to research the questions of whether good and evil are part of every human’s basic make-up, and what does it take to turn a good person into an evil one, you might head for some heavy-duty texts written ... read more Posted on 08/01/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) |
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