When actors and a director collaborate their fresh energy to construct their first movie, creativity can spark magic. This is the case with the gritty and poetic Southern drama “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” Winning the Grand Jury Prize at ...
Kenny Sayz: “Pink Ribbon, Inc” Discusses Corporate Sponsorship of Cancer and Deserves Your Attention
Many people have been affected by ‘the Big C’ (i.e. cancer). My father was diagnosed with Stage One mouth cancer last year and I had to face the possibility, though rather low, that he would not live much longer. In ...
The days of a faith based boycott of Disney are so prevalent, divisive, and (for this Christian) completely unwarranted and are clearly in the past. This week Disney announced a partnership with the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions ...
This weekend, ‘original films’ (i.e. non-sequels, not based on an adaptation, etc.) made a lot of money at the box office. Two familiar brands brought audiences to the multiplex, which Hollywood hasn’t even begun to capitalize yet: Seth MacFarlene and ...
Seattle based director Lynn Shelton has a distinct yet traditional indie-style as a filmmaker. The award-winning director of 2009’s “Humpday” embraced the popular and emerging ‘mumblecore’ brand of younger, hip actors displaying gritty realism with sporadic improv. I spoke with ...
It’s painful when a highly anticipated movie fails to pull off a delicate tonal balance such as what happened with “Seeking a Friend at the End of the World.” I attended my advanced screening wanting to review it, only to ...
Some of my favorite movie critics and Oscar pundits Sasha Stone, Guy Lodge, Kris Tapley, and Tom O’Neill among others recently ranked possible Oscar contenders for the 2012 movie year on a list. These assumptions are mostly based on ...
“God Bless America,” the new scathing anti-American pop culture satire might have a bizarre ‘love your freedom, hate thy citizens’ mentality. Reminiscent of the imbalanced, yet somewhat witty American satires of years past such as Mike Judge’s “Idiocracy” and ...
Despite the French language-film “The Intouchables” grossing around $348 million internationally, it has had a lackluster showing in the United States. According to the site Box Office Mojo, ‘Intouchables’ has a very limited release playing in 77 locations and ...
Synopsis: “Rock of Ages” tells the story of Tulsa, Oklahoma girl Sherrie, (Julianne Hough), and city boy Drew, (Diego Boneta), who meet on the Sunset Strip while pursuing their Hollywood dreams. They encounter numerous characters including owner Dennis ...
Synopsis: During the past several years, filmmakers have made introspective movies about the modern day military and the challenging environment the war on terror has provoked. These have arranged from various topics including the Best Picture winning take on ...
Set in the fictitious New Penzance, an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, “Moonrise Kingdom” focuses on Sam (Jared Gilman) and Suzy (Kara Hayward), two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, secretly rendezvous, and ...
