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Watch: The Do-Deca Pentathlon trailer
Before Jay and Mark Duplass directed Cyrus or Jeff, Who Lives At Home the brothers shot The Do-Deca Pentathlon. Perhaps being put on the radar as of late with larger budget hits was what the indie duo needed in...
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Rapt
Rapt is, if anything, a timely film. It’s been over three years since it was released in France (it came out in theatres stateside last year) but it feels more relevant today. With the demonization of corporations and CEOs...
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Urbanized
Urbanized is the third and final documentary installment of the design trilogy by Gary Hustwit. First, Hustwit focused on how one typeface that is everywhere is often overlooked in Helvetica before moving on to showing how industrial design affects...
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Hick
Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011 was Hick, a film directed by Derick Martini about a teenager who aimlessly drifts away from her Nebraska home. Aimlessly drifts are a common theme here because the entire film...
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Sleepless Night
When I was 11 or 12 the local YMCA started hosting these overnight “lock-ins” where kids could go and do all kinds of things like swimming, and watching cartoons on a giant screen set up in one of the...
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Watch: Goodbye First Love trailer
Straight out of France is the new romantic drama Goodbye First Love, which looks to have lots of potential. The film stars Lola Creton as a young woman who is having a hard time saying goodbye to her first...
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Haywire
Haywire is the new icy cold globe-trotting film from veteran director Steven Soderbergh. It’s a lean and mean thriller that starts in Upstate New York and works its way all over the world. From Barcelona to Dublin to the...
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The Big Year
While watching The Big Year I was both disappointed and pleasantly surprised. The disappointment was, with comedy superstars such as Steve Martin, Jack Black, and Owen Wilson, that it wasn’t as funny as I had anticipated it would be....
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Movie News Roundup: Top 10 Edition
A couple different Top 10 lists appear in this edition of Movie News Roundup. One is the Top 10 most anticipated indie films this summer and the other is Roger Ebert naming his Top 10 Movies of All Time....
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The Double Hour
Some call The Double Hour a foreign art house thriller while I would lean slightly more toward film nior, maybe it’s all of the above. I saw glimpses of Tell No One in this heart pounding Italian thriller from...
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Watch: “Beasts of the Southern Wild” trailer
One word came to mind after watching the trailer for Beasts of the Southern Wild, ambitious. Alright I lied, there were two words, ambitious and wow. The film made a splash at Sundace this year when it won the...
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The Innkeepers
Ti West’s The Innkeepers is one hell of a slow burner. The film moves at a snail’s pace but is none-the-less fascinating at how it achieves a grand atmosphere. All the credit goes to West, a young director who...
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Watch: “Your Sister’s Sister” trailer
My ears perk up every time I hear the name Mark Duplass. It seems like he has really exploded as of late, whether it be directing or acting he is everywhere and I am not complaining. The last...
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Marianne
It’s hard to criticize a movie like Marianne considering its ambitions. Aside from a few surprises over the years the horror genre has mostly been dead in the water, and Marianne has the balls to try and put more...
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