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2013 SFIFF: Twenty Feet From Stardom & The King of Summer
Twenty Feet From Stardom If you’re a music fan, names like Tata Vega, Merry Clayton, and Darlene Love should be familiar to you, but chances are they aren’t. That’s because these ladies—powerhouse singers and masters of their craft—have spent...
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2013 SFIFF: Much Ado About Nothing
On Saturday night, SFIFF was all about the screening of Joss Whedon’s much buzzed-about Shakespeare adaptation, Much Ado About Nothing, and the excitement emanating from the gorgeous Sundance Kabuki Cinema was infectious. There was a line stretching down the...
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2013 Sundance London: Emanuel and the Truth about Fishes, A.C.O.D, Mud
Emanuel and the Truth about Fishes Sitting in the 9am screening of Francesca Gregorini’s Emanuel and the Truth about Fishes, I was surrounded by sleepy film fans and people uncertain of what to expect from what they were about...
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2013 SFIFF: What Maisie Knew
The San Francisco International Film Festival is the biggest festival of the year in the Bay Area, and my SFIFF experience got off to a great start. My festival activities began at the gorgeous Fairmont hotel where I conducted...
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2013 Hot Docs Coverage Introduction
While Cannes, TIFF, Sundance and other major film festivals put their focus on a wide range of films, the Hot Docs festival puts the spotlight entirely on documentaries. Now celebrating their 20th year, Hot Docs is screening over 200...
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2013 Sundance London: Running From Crazy Review & Metro Manila
Running From Crazy The Hemingway family have always been “Running From Crazy” – their dark roots connected to Ernest’s suicide and their long history of mental illnesses caused depressive tendencies within every member of the family, even today. This...
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2013 Sundance London Coverage Introduction
Being from the UK with only a select few film festivals to attend each year, Sundance London offers British film-fans the chance to access the UK premiere of the fantastic films that were premiered in Utah earlier this year....
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2013 SFIFF Coverage Introduction
In a few days, San Francisco will be flooded with film geeks, critics, filmmakers, hobos (they’re always there), and film lovers of all kinds for the 56th annual San Francisco International Film Festival. San Francisco hosts a huge number...
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List of 2013 Cannes Film Festival trailers
So far only a handful of films that will be playing at this year’s Cannes Film Festival actually have trailers available. But as we begin to get closer to the start of the festival, more and more trailers being...
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Cannes 2013 Lineup Announced
The wait is now over as the lineup for the 2013 Cannes Film Festival has been announced this morning. While a few film festivals such as Sundance and Berlin have already given us a small taste of what is...
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Watch: Black Rock trailer
I was initially intrigued by Black Rock when I heard it was written by Mark Duplass and directed by his wife Katie Aselton, who also stars in the film. A trailer for Black Rock has landed and it looks...
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Roger Ebert Passes Away At Age 70
It deeply saddens me to report that legendary movie critic Roger Ebert passed away today at age 70. With his incredibly successful and equally influential television program “Siskel and Ebert and The Movies”, he not only provided entertainment around...
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CAAMFest 2013 Wrap-Up and Top 5 Films
My first experience at CAAMFest was a blast. It was exciting to see Asian-American cinema come into its own right before my eyes. Being that there aren’t many true representations of Asian America in cinema today (that’s an understatement),...
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2013 CAAMFest: Seeking Asian Female, Old Romances, Mekong Hotel and more
Seeking Asian Female Director Debbie Lum set out to make a documentary about “yellow fever”—the infatuation some older white men have with younger Asian women that can border on fetishism. What she got instead was something extraordinary, something she...
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