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 ) |
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Review of Meeting the Enemy (2007)
Meeting the Enemy is based on a novel by Leopold Lahola, which is basically a long long long long essay on the search for the principle of humanism. It's about a day in the life of a German soldier who is tasked to shoot his prisoner, only to get into ... read more Posted on 09/22/08 by: dansiella Comments (1 ) I wanna be James Spader's Secretary
Review of Secretary (2002)
Having recently just seen this film I can now say that 'Secretary' has made its way to being one of my favorite romantic comedies - even if I don't like romantic comedies. Secretary stars Maggie Gyllenhaal as former mental patient turned secretary Lee Holloway and James Spader as her demanding ... read more Posted on 09/22/08 by: dansiella Comments (1 ) I dream of the Dreamers
Review of The Dreamers (2003)
Bertolucci's The Dreamers comes off as the ultimate artsy/love/sex/revolution type of movie but truth be told it's so much more than that. Bursting with symbolism and draped with layers and layers of meaning, The Dreamers is about a young American student studying in Paris in the 60's as he strikes ... read more Posted on 09/22/08 by: dansiella Comments (1 ) Cheers to the head!
Review of Brothers of the Head (2006)
Brothers of the Head is the story of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe - a freak show turned proto-punk sensation in the 1970's. Brothers of the Head is directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe. "It's extremely Gothic," goes one of the first lines of this mockumentary. Plucked from ... read more Posted on 09/22/08 by: dansiella Comments (1 ) The Brothers Bloom at TIFF
Review of The Brothers Bloom
This is my biggest disappointment of the film festival thus far. Not the worst I've seen, though not far off. Dammit, The Brothers Bloom should have been great. I am a big fan of all the leads (Adrian Brody, Rachel Weisz, and the underused Mark Ruffalo) and this was Rian ... read more Posted on 09/19/08 by: Aaron Comments (0 ) Wendy and Lucy at TIFF 2008
Review of Wendy and Lucy
This is a contemporary American take on the British Kitchen Sink movies of the late fifties and early sixties. And it is terrific. Michelle Williams is Wendy, a young woman traveling to Alaska for work with her dog, Lucy. Wendy and Lucy catches up with the pair during a stop-over ... read more Posted on 09/19/08 by: Aaron Comments (0 ) The Paper Chase on Reel 13Review of The Paper Chase
The programmers at Channel 13 made an interesting choice to kick off their new (and kind of exciting) Reel 13 project in selecting James Bridges’ 1973 paean to law school THE PAPER CHASE. I realize that 2008 marks the 35th anniversary of the film, but if it’s anniversaries they’re interested ... read more Posted on 09/17/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Towelhead (F.K.A. Nothing Is Private)
Review of Towelhead (F.K.A. Nothing Is Private)
It's amazing how hilarious this movie is without stealing from the drama of a young girl who gets molested. The comedic elements are what set this film apart from others stories about a teen coping with identity and abuse. I didn't realize when I saw it that this is from ... read more Posted on 09/12/08 by: Momoji Comments (0 ) A Simple Curve on Reel 13Review of A Simple Curve
As much as I complain about the vast majority of Reel 13 Indies, what I love about it is that once and a while, a film comes along that takes me by surprise and captures my heart and mind, like CRY FUNNY HAPPY or THE RAGE IN PLACID LAKE. A ... read more Posted on 09/11/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) ElegyReview of Elegy
A dark drama based on Philip Roth's novel 'The Dying Animal', Elegy follows the life of David Kepesh, an ageing literary professor played by Ben Kingsley. Having abandoned his wife and son twenty years ago, Kepesh lives alone, in a no-strings-attached, sexual relationship with a middle-aged businesswoman, played by Patricia ... read more Posted on 09/10/08 by: Carolann Comments (0 ) Elegy
Review of Elegy
A dark drama based on Philip Roth's novel 'The Dying Animal', Elegy follows the life of David Kepesh, an ageing literary professor played by Ben Kingsley. Having abandoned his wife and son twenty years ago, Kepesh lives alone, in a no-strings-attached, sexual relationship with a middle-aged businesswoman, played by Patricia ... read more Posted on 09/10/08 by: dottcom15 Comments (0 ) Traitor? Who Cares?
Review of Traitor
Once again, let down by such promise. This film looked like another version of "The Bourne Identity", but oh, does it fall with a thud! First we are introduced to Don Cheadle's charachter - who is born and growing up in the Sudan - then - bam! We fast forward ... read more Posted on 09/04/08 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) Wasted time...
Review of Shampoo
This film - written and directed and filmed by some of the greatest in Hollywood - flops. That's really all there is to say about it - it just lays there on the carpet, breathing until its last gasp, and flops. The best part of the film was Goldie Hawn ... read more Posted on 09/04/08 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) Check the Clock.
Review of A Clockwork Orange
A very stylized film - but not expecting much else from Stanley Kubrick. Not much except violence and sex...to the tune of "Singin' in the Rain"? Yes, that sums up the experience of "A Clockwork Orange" chronicling the life of a young hoodlum named Alex through the period of violence ... read more Posted on 09/04/08 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) Don't go hitchhiking...
Review of The Dead Girl
This film was fantastic! Apart from the stellar cast (Marcia Gay Harden, Kerry Washington, Rose Byrne, Brittany Murphy, Josh Brolin, Mary Beth Hurt, Mary Steenburgen, Toni Collette, Giovanni Ribisi, etc.), the story was a tremendous roller coaster ride! I am still thinking about it a few days later and it ... read more Posted on 09/04/08 by: dougiejr3 Comments (0 ) |
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