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The Pretty One
The quirky indie comedy, what was once a unique and unfiltered genre, has started to grasp onto the same devices, making for predictable whimsy. The Pretty One, the first full length feature from AFI grad Jenée LeMarque from her...
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Favorite Philip Seymour Hoffman Moments
The film industry suffered a tragic loss Sunday morning when Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his Manhattan apartment. At the young age of 46, Hoffman certainly had more incredible performances in him to contribute to the 63...
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Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Original Screenplay
The screenplay category is notorious for giving smaller indie films a chance for recognition that they may not receive anywhere else on Oscar night. That is not exactly the case this year as all but one (Blue Jasmine) of...
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Jeune & Jolie
Following the well-received In The House, François Ozon returns with yet another voyeuristic character study with Jeune & Jolie (French translation: Young and Beautiful). Over the course of four weather seasons, the film follows a sexually driven adolescent striving...
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Weekend Streaming Recommendations: “Alone Yet Not Alone” Edition
There was a funny bit of news floating around this week regarding an obscure (comically so) film having its Best Original Song Oscar nomination revoked by the Academy. “Alone Yet Not Alone”, the song in question from a movie...
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Giveaway: Blue is the Warmest Color Free Streaming Code
One of the most controversial films of 2013 was the French film Blue is the Warmest Color, which received top honors winning the Palme d’Or at this year at the Cannes Film Festival. The film also scored high on...
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Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Supporting Actor
Well we can thank the Best Supporting Actress category for giving us some sense of competition. Best Supporting Actor is one of the few categories in this race that’s set in stone. Jared Leto, who plays an AIDS-infected transgender...
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SXSW 2014 Lineup Revealed
The dust is now settling in Park City after Sundance finished up a week or two ago, meanwhile the people in Austin are getting prepared for the onslaught of crowds for the SXSW festival of films, music, and technology....
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Oscar Analysis 2014: Nominated Shorts
We’re still in the thick of awards season, and with all the big dogs fighting over the coveted Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director and so forth, it’s easy to overlook three of the most interesting categories...
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Jason Cohen and Tom Christopher Talk Facing the Fear of Forgiveness
Facing Fear, a short film by Bay Area resident Jason Cohen, just got nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary Short. It explores the nature of forgiveness through the story of two men, Matthew Boger and Tim Zaal. One...
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10 Most Anticipated Films of 2014
It’s a new year, and that means new films, right? 2013 gave us some truly wonderful films, but amongst catching up on those that we missed and all the Oscar buzz, we’re also thinking about what’s on offer this...
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Best ‘Her’ Trailer Parodies: Philip Seymour Hoffman and SNL
Spike Jonzes’s film Her is without a doubt incredibly endearing, thought-provoking, and technologically probable as a socially awkward man (Joaquin Phoenix) in the not so distant future falls in love with his advanced Operating System (voiced by Scarlett Johannson)....
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Cold Comes the Night
Cold Comes the Night is the sophomore effort from indie director Tze Chun, who teams up with Nick Simon and Osgood Perkins on a screenplay about a single mother who is forced into criminal activities for the well being...
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Exclusive Clip: Sick Birds Die Easy
What happens you send a filmmaker, an Oxycotton loving conspiracy theorist, an alcoholic musician and his girlfriend, and a shit ton of acid into the jungles of Africa? You get Sick Birds Die Easy, an experimental documentary that blurs...
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