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Frameline37 Opening Night and Concussion Review
I returned to the Castro Theater last night for the fourth time in a week (last weekend was The Hitchcock 9), though theater fatigue wasn’t an issue. The Castro Theatre was absolutely bananas for the opening night of the...
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Behind the Candelabra
As a child, when staying at a motel or sleepovers with friends with premium cable, watching HBO always felt sneaky. You never knew what un-edited adult gem you’d come across. Watching Behind the Candelabra I was suddenly transported back...
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LA Film Fest Reviews: Crystal Fairy and Monsters University
Crystal Fairy Sebastián Silva just directed two Michael Cera features and at least one, Crystal Fairy, is bizarre and excellent. The story is rather simple, an American dick studies abroad in Chile in order to party and try the...
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Frameline37 Festival Coverage Introduction
LGBTQ cinema will get the bright spotlight it very much deserves at Frameline37, the oldest, most respected queer cinema showcase in the world. The festival runs from June 20-30 in San Francisco at the Castro Theatre, Roxie Theater, and...
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LA Film Fest Reviews: Short Term 12, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, In a World
Short Term 12 SXSW film-goers pegged this picture pretty well when they gave it the audience award a few months ago. Destin Cretin’s second feature in as many years is an honest crowd pleaser that leaves you feeling all...
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Interview: PJ Raval and Dennis Creamer of Before You Know It
Director PJ Raval’s Before You Know It is a beautiful, grounded documentary highlighting a very specific group of Americans—elderly gay men. Seniors are desexualized and largely neglected by society already—when I see seniors in public, the people around them...
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Trance on Blu-ray & DVD July 23rd
Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 127 Hours) has always had a knack to bring interesting stories to life in his films and his latest film Trance is no exception. It follows an art auctioneer who teams up with a gang of...
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V/H/S/2
It comes as no surprise that a sequel has already come out less than a year later after the success of V/H/S. The quick turnaround is also not a surprise considering the low budget and format of the anthology...
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The Hitchcock 9 Coverage
This past weekend’s “The Hitchcock 9”—a program of 9 of Hitchcock’s silent films, beautifully restored by BFI and presented with live musical accompaniment—was an absolute joy for those who were fortunate enough to attend. It was presented by the...
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Giveaway: Win Stoker on Blu-ray
Way Too Indie has teamed up with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment to give one reader a chance to win a Blu-ray copy of Stoker, the latest film from the critically acclaimed filmmaker Chan-wook Park (Oldboy, Thirst). Stoker is...
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Black Rock
The production of Black Rock is a husband and wife collaboration between Mark Duplass handling the screenwriting duties and Katie Aselton coming up with the story and working as the director for the second time in her career. Making...
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Watch: LUNAR teaser trailer
LUNAR is bound to be the best indie sci-fi trailer you see today. Tyson Wade Johnston’s short film is set in the year 2057 in Los Angeles, where all convicts are removed from Earth and sentenced to the LUNAR...
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Hitchcock’s 9 Best “Silent” Scenes
If you’re in the Bay Area this weekend, I highly recommend you check out the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, which will host the “Hitchcock 9”, a series of films from Hitchcock’s early days as a director in the...
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Stoker
Since Chan-wook Park emerged into the cinema scene with his critically acclaimed Vengeance Trilogy, he has been a director to pay close attention to. When it was announced that Stoker would be his first English-language film, naturally everyone’s ears...
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