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Mill Valley Film Festival: Days 4 & 5
On day 4 of the Mill Valley Film Festival, Sean Penn made a rare appearance to support The Human Experiment, a new documentary by co-directors Don Hardy Jr. and Dana Nachman that Penn narrates and executive produced. The beautifully shot...
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Mill Valley Film Festival: Finding Hillywood & 4 Short Films
The New Environmentalists This documentary takes you across the world from Iraq to Columbia to Indonesia and others to share six different stories from environmental activists who seek to improve the quality of life for all. Narrated by Robert...
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Mill Valley Film Festival: Day 3 Recap
On day 3 of the festival, rising teen idols and a CSI star flashed their pearly whites (for good causes), young songstresses made the crowd swoon at a legendary nightclub, and the classiest “madman” actor of all received a...
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Mill Valley Film Festival: Day 2 Recap
After a jam-packed opening night full of excitement and energy, day two of the Mill Valley Film Festival was a day of more narrowed focus. At the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center (long name, but a simple, pristine...
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Watch: We Are What We Are Featurette
Jim Mickle’s We Are What We Are (a remake of the 2010 Mexican horror film of the same name) received a lot of buzz from its Sundance premiere earlier in the year though we first saw the film a...
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Our Thoughts & Favorite Films From South Dakota Film Festival
A few weeks ago I had started some serious contemplation on the South Dakota Film Festival. I’ve really only been to one film festival in my lifetime, but it was a big one, the Toronto International Film Festival. For...
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Mill Valley Film Festival: Day 1 Recap
Nestled in the green, redwood-populated hills of Mill Valley, the 36th Mill Valley Film Festival kicked off with a duo of gorgeous dramas: Alexander Payne’s Nebraska and Brian Percival’s The Book Thief. The arrival of several special guests from the films...
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Trailer: Escape From Tomorrow
The initial responses from Escape From Tomorrow’s Sundance premiere were a bit contradicting. Most critics teased us by saying it is a must see film, but one that we probably won’t be able to see because the film was...
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Mill Valley Film Festival Coverage Introduction
Starting tonight, October 3rd and going through October 13th, the 36th Mill Valley Film Festival will be rolling out the red carpet for local Bay Area filmmakers, movie stars, and acclaimed directors from around the world in the gorgeous...
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South Dakota Film Festival: Ride with Larry and 6 short films
Sweet Crude Man Camp By far the most visual striking film of the festival was the short documentary Sweet Crude Man Camp. The film is about the effects of the oil boom in the small town of Williston, North...
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South Dakota Film Festival: Dust of War and 7 short films
Looking Past You An elderly woman, whose husband has just passed, is getting sick and tired of people ignoring her and her feelings. I kept thinking about that scene at the end of Network where the main character spouts,...
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South Dakota Film Festival: Noah and 7 other short films
Noah Not only did Noah easily stand out as the most unique film that I saw at the festival, but it is one of the better short films that I have seen in a long time. Filmed entirely from...
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TIFF 2013: Top 20 Films of the Festival
Over the last 2 weeks my opinions have changed towards some of the films I’ve seen. Watching up to 4 films in one day can be exhausting, and sometimes through reflection films can seem better or worse in retrospect....
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TIFF 2013: Stranger By The Lake & Moebius
Having missed Blue is the Warmest Colour at TIFF this year, I went for another gay-themed film from Cannes: Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger By The Lake. Blue might have won the Palme D’Or, but Stranger actually took home the Queer...
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