Cutie and the Boxer – Movie Review – World Premiere @ 2013 Sundance Film Festival
Written by Andrew Tedeschi FULL DISCLOSURE: There are two reasons I am glad CUTIE AND THE BOXER is such a great film: 1) I wanted to spend my time at Sundance watching good movies, and 2) it could have led to awkward dinner conversation, as I was…
Charlotte Rampling Nominated for SAG Award for Restless
It was announced today that Charlotte Rampling has been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in Sundance Channel’s critically-acclaimed original miniseries, “Restless.” The nomination sits in the category of Outstanding…
Why You Should Be Excited About Pacific Rim
Written by Sarah Sommer. On July 12, 2013, Pacific Rim hits theaters and it will be a film you won’t want to miss. This upcoming science fiction film is directed by (cinematic genius) Guillermo del Toro with a screenplay written by Travis Beacham.…
Machinima & iam8bit Present The First Ever Machinima Interactive Film Festival
Written by Sarah Sommer The number one global video entertainment network, Machinima, has announced the first ever Machinima Interactive Film Festival, a nine day online and offline exhibit, which shines a light on the hard working filmmakers and…
Indie Film Group Grabs Attention of More Texans After Earning a Grant From Neighborhood Centers in Houston
It was announced yesterday that the independent film festival “Senorita Cinema” has been selected to receive a grant for $1,000 as a part of a new initiative called “Seeds for Change” from Neighborhood Centers Inc. The initiative…
DVD Want List: MOONRISE KINGDOM
Not sure what to get the lover of quirky films in your life? Try Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom. You may know the name from works like The Royal Tenenbaums or The Fantastic Mr. Fox as a director you either love or loathe. Moonrise…
Sundance Channel Unveils the Exciting Trailer of Their Latest Offering of Original Programming, “RESTLESS”
The Sundance Channel will soon premiere its newest original miniseries, “Restless” on December 7th. The new drama will be produced by Emmy Award winner Hilary Bevan Jones (State of Play, The Girl in the Café) under her shingle Endor…
Hara-kiri: the Death of a Samurai – Miike’s Masterpiece of Restraint
Hara-kiri: the Death of a Samurai (subtitled in English) played as a special presentation of the New Orleans Film Festival, so I got to see it on a big screen, but it is also available to rent on demand from Amazon. For those of you who may not know…
Notes from New Orleans Film Festival: Asura
Asura is an anime unlike any I have seen. I am not a huge watcher of anime, so this might simply be my own ignorance of the genre as a whole. But generally the anime I have seen has been fairly genre oriented, either fantasy or science fiction or…
Notes from New Orleans Film Festival: Dead Man’s Burden
Dead Man’s Burden (written and directed by Jared Moshe) was one of my favorite films from this year’s New Orleans Film Festival. It’s an excellent Western—beautifully filmed, tightly constructed, simple and big at the same time thematically, and…