Usually when falling in love, the inexperienced (and sometimes the experienced) are the most vulnerable with having clear communication and appropriate boundaries with each other. The mess of our lives affects one another. And if not dealt with, burdens the ones we love. The Spectacular Now is no exception to … [Read More]
If Woody Allen’s beloved Midnight in Paris was an escapist Euro literary golden age fantasy, his Blue Jasmine is the stark nightmare of America’s “new normal” economic condition…all expressed through his trademark blind narcissism and dark comedy. Contrasting the two is interesting, if not fair because both are recent … [Read More]
Our very own Kenny Miles was able to get in a few questions with the director of cult classic “The Room” director Tommy Wiseau. Given the opportuniy our very own Kenny Miles reached out and asked the esteemed director a few questions about his groundbreaking film. [springboard type=”video” id=”771079″ … [Read More]
With the press attention a documentary like Dirty Wars has received, one would’ve assumed it featured some shocking revelations. It does…and the art house audiences missed out judging from its $300,000 gross when it was released earlier this summer. People wanted to escape and didn’t want to hear any sort … [Read More]
[springboard type=”video” id=”761037″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] Written and Directed by Ryan Googler Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer, Melonie Diaz, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray Progressive Christian social justice activist/pastor Jim Wallis has referred to racism as America’s original sin. The bondage of a past has been explored … [Read More]
Music documentaries have a tendency to be bland and are rarely engaging subject matter. Sure there can be interesting, quirky, and funny stories, but nothing that grabs an audience and makes them feel for musician exposing their vulnerabilities. We see many drive Behind the Music style of documentaries that … [Read More]
The new family comedy-drama Girl Most Likely tells the story of Imogen (Kristen Wiig) being fired from her writing gig. She hits rock bottom when she sets up a fake suicide (or maybe it is not fake which is one of the faults of this feature’s tone) and ends … [Read More]
THE WAY, WAY BACK is the funny and poignant coming of age story of 14-year-old Duncan’s (Liam James) summer vacation with his mother, Pam (Toni Collette), her overbearing boyfriend, Trent (Steve Carell), and his daughter, Steph (Zoe Levin). Having a rough time fitting in, the introverted Duncan finds … [Read More]
With wrapping up a better than expected box office ($140 million and counting as of late June), a lukewarm to negative critical consensus (some reviewers were nasty) and mixed word of mouth from audiences, award contender enthusiasts could wonder what kind of Oscar contention The Great Gatsby will achieve. It … [Read More]
American Airlines and Disney are collaborating to promote the latest children’s movie Planes. Below is a press release: AMERICAN AIRLINES AND DISNEY LAUNCH HIGH-FLYING COLLABORATION WITH “DISNEY’S PLANES” LOS ANGELES – Today American Airlines and the Walt Disney Studios announced a strategic collaboration on the upcoming “Disney’s Planes” movie, … [Read More]
An estimated 48,000 attended this year’s Denver ComicCon almost double the attendees from last year. This could be a result in a bigger lineup including Star Trek actors William Shatner and George Takei in attendance. More awareness also helped as well. I found out about Denver ComicCon last year as … [Read More]
Many summer indie movies try to wow audiences by offering exceptional, heavy handed Oscar (light) bait. Nothing seems to want to be in the business to provide characteristics of an entertaining thriller for this time of year. Art house has to mostly be serious. Sure we see whimsical comedies … [Read More]