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Trance
Famed director Danny Boyle reverts back to more edgy form with Trance after recently holding the title artistic director of the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics. Boyle reunites with co-writer John Hodge for the first time since The...
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No
Right around the time the world began to awe over household microwaves (something touched on in this film), the country of Chile was in the middle of a huge political reform with a public election that could free their...
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Interview: Anita Monga, Artistic Director of the SF Silent Film Festival
Some of the greatest directors of all time—F.W. Murnau, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, and Carl Dreyer, to name a few—thrived in the silent era, and the best directors of today constantly refer to their work for inspiration and guidance....
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This Is the End
Why on earth would this post-modern feminist put a crass, self-referential, bro-mantic apocalypse film in her top 5 of the year (thus far)? Because Seth Rogen and super side-kick Evan Goldberg (Superbad, Pineapple Express), hit it on the head...
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Watch: 12 Years A Slave trailer
Steven McQueen’s highly anticipated 12 Years A Slave is a follow up to his mesmerizing sex addiction film Shame, which also features Michael Fassbender, and the first trailer for the film has just been released. The most notable part...
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Interview: Michael Cera and Sebastian Silva of Crystal Fairy
While stoned at a party in Chile, Jamie (Michael Cera), a boorish American asshole, invites a cosmo-tripping hippy named Crystal Fairy (Gaby Hoffman) on a quest with his friends to obtain San Pedro—a “magical” cactus—and imbibe the mescaline-rich plant....
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The Act of Killing
You know the subject matter for your documentary is exceptional when you have both Werner Herzog and Error Morris listed as executive producers. This is the case with Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing—a powerful documentary about Indonesia’s violent...
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Interview: Mark Lobatto of Silent Treatment
Sat in Granary Square in central London (just a few minutes away from Kings Cross/St Pancras Station) I meet with Director Mark Lobatto to discuss his recent short film Silent Treatment. Silent Treatment is a “boy meets girl story...
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Crystal Fairy
According to a recent New York Times article, Michael Cera’s latest film, Crystal Fairy, began to shoot when financing for a different film with Chilean director Sebastián Silva fell through. The result, based on an outline by Silva about...
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Watch: Oldboy trailer
The highly anticipated American remake of Park Chan-wook’s Korean cult classic, Oldboy, finally has a trailer for your viewing pleasure. While many diehard fans of the original are clamoring that a remake is completely unnecessary, others are glad that...
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The East
I’ll admit that the main reason I was interested in The East was due to it starring Ellen Page, though the story did also appeal to me. I had not seen Zal Batmanglij’s previous thriller, Sound of My Voice,...
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Fruitvale Station
On New Year’s Day 2009, Oscar Grant, a black 22-year-old Bay Area resident was pulled off a BART train and taken into custody by a police officer. Unarmed and defenseless, he was shot in the back and killed on...
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Giveaway: Win Trance on Blu-ray
In order to celebrate the Blu-ray/DVD release of Danny Boyle’s Trance on July 23rd, we are giving away a copy of Trance on Blu-ray to one of our readers. Trance follows a fine-art auctioneer named Simon (James McAvoy), who...
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Vincent Cassel’s Most Seductive Roles
Some parts originality from 20th Century Fox We have created a list of Vincent Cassel’s Most Seductive Roles to go along with the release of his latest role in Danny Boyle’s Trance, which arrives on Blu-ray and DVD on...
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