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2014 Screen Actors Guild Award Winners
Tonight marked the 20th anniversary of the Screen Actors Guild Award show, an award ceremony that has become a great precursor to help predict how the acting categories could turn out for the Oscars. The biggest reason for this...
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Weekend Streaming Recommendations: The Square, Tall as the Baobab Tree, Blackfish
For this week’s batch of Weekend Streaming Recommendations, I’ve chosen to pick a quartet of excellent documentaries, but with an added bonus: To enhance your viewing pleasure, I’ve included interviews I conducted with the films’ directors and subjects! It’s...
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Different Drum
In Kevin Chenault’s Different Drum (named after the Stone Poneys song), we follow two young ex-lovers as they take a road trip from South Dakota to Indiana, exploring and sampling the local flavor of 9 Midwest cities, all while learning...
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Dawn (Sundance Review)
Rose McGowan’s debut short film, Dawn, is a surprisingly original and well-executed revision of a 1950’s teenage romance gone terribly awry. The film opens with our quiet protagonist Dawn sitting in the back seat of a car, getting hassled...
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Magnolia and Paramount Link Up to Distribute ‘Happy Christmas’
Today, Magnolia Pictures and Paramount Pictures announced that they will collaborate to bring Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas to theaters and home video worldwide. The film, which premieres at Sundance this Sunday, is written and directed by Swanberg and stars Anna...
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Kevin Chenault Talks ‘Different Drum’, Awkward Road Tripping
How’s this for an awkward situation: Tod, a penniless musician (the film opens with him stealing clothes from a thrift shop), is forced to drive with his pregnant ex-girlfriend Lydia from South Dakota to Indiana for a wedding. In...
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2014 Oscar Nominations
This morning the official announcement of nominations for the 2014 Oscars came in with Gravity and American Hustle on top with an impressive total of 10 nominations each. Not far behind was 12 Years A Slave which hauled in...
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Starz Digital Picks Up ‘Mistaken For Strangers’ and ‘Trust Me’
Starz Digital Media, the digital distribution subsidiary of Starz, has picked up the rights to two Tribeca standouts: Tom Berninger’s Mistaken For Strangers, a docu-comedy based on Americana rock group The National, and Trust Me, a comedy helmed by and starring...
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2014 Spirit Award Predictions
If my predictions of the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards hold true (nobody hold their breath), 12 Years A Slave would walk away the big winner with a projected total of 5 awards. I believe the rest of the...
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Trampoline
It is hard not to have absolute admiration for independent filmmakers for their courage, style, and ability to look beyond their production obstacles and see the bigger picture in their work. The fact that Tom Ryan’s Irish indie film...
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The Square
The Square captures the chaotic energy of the Egyptian mass protests of 2011 and 2013, a rush of sights and sounds shot at street level that blitzes the senses as it quickens the heart. It’s not as informative a documentary...
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Interior. Leather Bar.
James Franco has been on an experimental film kick as of late with his rendition of the classic 1930 Faulkner novel As I Lay Dying and his upcoming project Child of God (another novel adaptation), so it really comes...
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Sam Berns, Subject of ‘Life According to Sam’, Dies at 17
Life According to Sam subject Sam Berns, 17, died on Friday in Boston, Massachusetts, reports The New York Times. Sam’s death came as a result of complications of the rare disease progeria, which he had lived with his entire...
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Armond White Goes Too Far, Voted Out of NYFCC
After years of prodding, he’s finally woken the sleeping giant…and it’s pissed. Several witnesses have accused Armond White, contrarian film critic and now former member of the New York Film Critics Circle, of vicious heckling directed at 12 Years a...
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