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Jul 07 2008
Many people have been waiting in bated anticipation for the release of the 90’s throwback film “The Wackness”. We talked about it here on this blog not too long ago, and it has created quite a hype prior to its release. This schedule, which I found over at Firstshowing.net, shows a fairly substantial release. So [...]
Jul 03 2008
The idea of a movie based on a “Magic The Gathering” like card game which deals with alien shaped creatures in a post apocalyptic world, may not sound like your cup of tea. But surely the up-coming indie sci-fi “The Mutant Chronicles” is worth a look, and here is why.
First of all, this pic stars [...]
Jul 01 2008
I just can’t get enough of free film lately, i.e. Internet musicals and ESPN sports documentaries. It used to be that small art house films premiered at indie festivals and then played their limited engagement out in New York or LA, never to be heard from again. Well it doesn’t get any smaller that Slamdance, [...]
Jun 27 2008
There are two reasons I am excited about the internet-mini-series-musical “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog”. One, there is nothing more independent film than a free internet musical, second, I thought I would never again get the chance to see Neil Patrick Harris, Mr. Doogie Howser, in a MD role. I give you Dr. Horrible:
During the WGA [...]
Jun 23 2008
I recently watched and episode of “My Name is Earl” where Earl joins forces with a guest starring John Heder to win a grocery bagging championship. The competition was intense and ended with a slow motion alley oop move where apples were expertly placed inside a paper bag just before time ran out. It [...]
Jun 18 2008
News has broken that a follow up is in the works to the 2004 French action movie “District B13″ or “Banlieue 13″. The origianl film was a vehicle to bring the French born technique of movement called Parkour to the big screen. Parkour is a recent sport that concentrates on maneuvering through environments in [...]
Jun 12 2008
I had mentioned before how ESPN is going full force into the feature film game, one of the only markets they have yet to conquer. This has included both an upcomming Spike Lee doc on Kobe Bryant and involvement in the Tribeca Film Festival. The trend continues this weekend when you can see the national [...]
Jun 06 2008
In case you haven’t realized, movie marketing, and generally marketing of all products has entered a new phase. Yes the conventional trailer before a feature film is still the norm, but viral marketing campaigns including, but not limited to, websites, public displays, graffiti, live human performances, tattoos on boxers, mini internet shows, and word of [...]
Jun 03 2008
There are many genres in film today, including road movies, romantic comedies, tragedies, noirs, and a most recent edition, movies about Hunter S. Thompson. There are just so many.
There are fictional accounts of Thompson’s life such as Bill Murray in 1980’s “Where the Buffalo Roam” or Johnny Depp in the film adaptation of “Fear [...]
May 30 2008
If you don’t have anything better to do at midnight west coast time tonight ( such as sleeping or loitering outside of a Quick Stop ) then take a look at the long awaited trailer for Kevin Smith’s “Zack and Miri Make a Porno”. The trailer can be seen here at the designated time.
Those [...]
I have always thought of the Olympic opening ceremonies as a little overdramatic and dare I say cheesy. Well thanks to a 300 million dollar budget and the artistic vision of renowned Chinese film director Zhang Yimou, 2008’s Bejing ceremonies were legendary - despite the frequent flood warnings and technical difficulties interrupting the broadcast thanks [...]
Bret Easton Ellis strikes again; Wayfarers, New Order, drugs, sex, and rich LA brats. Welcome to the first look at “The Informers”, the film adaptation of Ellis’s 1994 novel of the same name in which he also wrote the screenplay.
“The drama is set over the course of a week in 1983, in the chillingly [...]
In the 1950’s Hollywood was producing around forty westerns per year, that number fell to twenty during the 60’s, around ten per year in the 1970’s through 90’s, and in the new millennium, we are lucky to get five westerns each year. But when those westerns are of the caliber of 2007’s “3:10 [...]