Stephen Sihla and Eric Slade’s Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton is a close exploration of a man who embodied the tenants of free expression. Living under the mantra of ‘Follow Your Weird,’ Broughton was both a poet and a filmmaker, an avante garde champion of artist expression who refused to play by...
I wanted to like it. I wanted to love it. But I didn't love it and I only kind of liked it. It didn't boldly go anywhere, it just...went. On…
It’s been nearly ten years seen the last iteration of the Riddick character has “graced” the silver screen but it appears that Vin Diesel will fill the shoes of the anti-hero once again with the simply named Riddick. I don’t think many people imagined that a third entry into the canon would arrive so far...
Last year’s V/H/S was a delightfully spooky affair. Working within the same found footage compilation framework, V/H/S 2 offers up seven different visions from emerging filmmakers Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Edúardo Sanchez, Gregg Hale, Timo Tjahjanto, Gareth Huw Evans and Jason Eisener. I’ll be seeing the premiere next week so I’m gonna pass on the...
James Franco is something of an enigma. On one side of the coin, he’s definitely an intelligent. He’s taught courses at NYU, USC and UCLA where he is also an adjunct professor of English and is pursuing a PhD at Yale. He is a prominent actor and a celebrated multimedia artist. He was nominated for...
“Frances Ha” Directed by Noah Baumbach Starring Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen and Patrick Heusinger Comedy 86 Mins R Noah Baumbach is at his least caustic with Frances Ha, an idiosyncratic and delightful black-and-white mumblecore film about a New York City girl coming to terms with herself in the haze of her...
In theaters this week, I caught The Great Gatsby as well as a number of films over at the Seattle International Film Festival. While I already wrote up reviews for What Maisie Knew, which is arguably the best movie of the year so far, and Mistaken for Strangers, the quasi-documentary on The National, I also...
As if the stream of posters wasn’t enough, we can finally watch the Bluths back in action as the first trailer for the ten-years-in-the-making fourth season of Arrested Development has hit the web. Featuring Michael, George Michael, Maebe, Lindsay, Tobias, George Sr, Gob, Buster and Lucille as well as a slew of supporting bit characters,...
While it doesn't quite possess the unmitigated originality of Pixar's golden age, it does carry a similar heart-on-its-sleeve air to it that is immensely breathable. Rather than capriciously turning on…