Frameline Reviews: In the Name of & GBFBy Bernard Boo In the Name of Polish star Andrzej Chyra plays priest Adam, unusually hip and good-looking for a man of god, in Malgorzata Szumowska’s pensive character study, In the Name...
Watch: August: Osage County trailerBy Amy Priest Containing an all-star cast including, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor and Juliette Lewis, comes a dramatic comedy based on the play by Tracy Letts. The film will be...
Watch: Drinking Buddies trailerBy Dustin Jansick The majority of Joe Swanberg’s directorial career has been making micro-budget indie films such as Kissing on the Mouth, LOL, and Hannah Takes the Stairs, which many consider to...
LA Film Fest Reviews: Only God Forgives, Lesson of Evil, The ConjuringBy Jacob Tishler Only God Forgives Only God Forgives is director Nicholas Winding Refn’s most bizarre film yet, even more so than the inter-dimensional Viking picture Valhalla Rising. The marketing for his...
Frameline37 Reviews: Bwakaw, The Campaign, Big WordsBy Bernard Boo Bwakaw Veteran Filipino actor Eddie Garcia puts on a staggeringly heartfelt performance as Rene, an unimaginably (and hilarious) grumpy old man with a dream-crushing mean streak. Bwakaw is set...
Frameline37 Reviews: C.O.G. & Breaking the GirlsBy Bernard Boo C.O.G. At long last, David Sedaris has allowed one of his essays to be adapted to film. With director Kyle Patrick Alvarez (Easier With Practice) at the helm, C.O.G....
LA Film Fest Reviews: Winter in the Blood & You’re NextBy Jacob Tishler Winter in the Blood Directors Alex and Andrew Smith attempt the monumental task of adapting James Welch’s first novel, Winter in the Blood, the result a wildly uneven, but...
Frameline37 Opening Night and Concussion ReviewBy Bernard Boo I returned to the Castro Theater last night for the fourth time in a week (last weekend was The Hitchcock 9), though theater fatigue wasn’t an issue. The Castro...
LA Film Fest Reviews: Crystal Fairy and Monsters UniversityBy Jacob Tishler Crystal Fairy Sebastián Silva just directed two Michael Cera features and at least one, Crystal Fairy, is bizarre and excellent. The story is rather simple, an American dick studies...
Frameline37 Festival Coverage IntroductionBy Bernard Boo LGBTQ cinema will get the bright spotlight it very much deserves at Frameline37, the oldest, most respected queer cinema showcase in the world. The festival runs from June 20-30...
LA Film Fest Reviews: Short Term 12, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, In a WorldBy Jacob Tishler Short Term 12 SXSW film-goers pegged this picture pretty well when they gave it the audience award a few months ago. Destin Cretin’s second feature in as many years...
Trance on Blu-ray & DVD July 23rdBy Dustin Jansick Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 127 Hours) has always had a knack to bring interesting stories to life in his films and his latest film Trance is no exception. It follows...
The Hitchcock 9 CoverageBy Bernard Boo This past weekend’s “The Hitchcock 9”—a program of 9 of Hitchcock’s silent films, beautifully restored by BFI and presented with live musical accompaniment—was an absolute joy for those who...
Giveaway: Win Stoker on Blu-rayBy Dustin Jansick Way Too Indie has teamed up with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment to give one reader a chance to win a Blu-ray copy of Stoker, the latest film from...
