Let’s get down to business: This film is fucking bananas. Not your average store-bought bananas, not even your farm-to-table free range bananas, this is 160 metric tonnes of high-explosive, slow-motion, dual pistol, Hong Kong bullet spraying bananas; shipped directly...
Set in late 1970s in South Africa, Free State is writer-director Salmon de Jager’s attempt to inject some Romeo and Juliet flair with outlawed racial love and cultural family tension. Set in late 1970s in South Africa, Free State is writer-director Salmon de Jager’s attempt to inject some Romeo and Juliet flair with outlawed racial love and...
If by any chance you yearn for somebody who could wax poetic for a few hours about the new Super V Batman movie, Kevin Smith is pro If by any chance you yearn for somebody who could wax poetic for a few hours about the new Super V Batman movie, Kevin Smith is probably your man. Bringing his one-man talking extravaganza to our fair city of...
Certainly better late than never. Certainly better late than never. Chinese filmmaker Edward Yang’s often-cited A Brighter Summer Day is to many the holy grail of Eastern films that tragically haven’t seen the light of day in America outside of film festivals or piracy. Leaving a large footprint as part of the New Taiwan Cinema movement during...
The opening query of provocateur Nagasa Oshima’s political Death by Hanging is the question of “…have you actually seen an execution or an execution chamber”? The opening query of provocateur Nagasa Oshima’s political Death by Hanging is the question of “…have you actually seen an execution or an execution chamber”? Beginning like a documentary...
Different shades of tragedy always seem to expound from filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen. Different shades of tragedy always seem to expound from filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen. For 30 years they’ve been enticing us with their strange but strikingly great movies that seem to run the gamut of eccentrics being surrounded by oddballs, creeps, and...
1949’s Bitter Rice is a provocative pulp disguised as a crime drama through an Italian neorealism lens. 1949’s Bitter Rice is a provocative pulp disguised as a crime drama through an Italian neorealism lens. Infused specifically American pulp and light noir, it still feels dangerous, lurid, gritty, and socially aware within all its sexy,...
Jellyfish Eyes is a new live-action psychedelic children’s adventure that tells the story of a young boy who relocates with his recently widowed mother. Jellyfish Eyes is a new live-action psychedelic children’s adventure that tells the story of a young boy who relocates with his recently widowed mother. He is haunted in a dream after losing his...
The beginning two minutes of D.A. Pennebaker’s legendary 16mm documentary Dont Look Back is about as iconic and memorable as they come. The beginning two minutes of D.A. Pennebaker’s legendary 16mm documentary Dont Look Back is about as iconic and memorable as they come. When you imagine the genesis of music videos (called “promotion films” way...
Fresh out of studying for his Masters at the National Film and Television School, Irish writer/director Phil Sheerin always had a passion for film as he has q Fresh out of studying for his Masters at the National Film and Television School, Irish writer/director Phil Sheerin always had a passion for film as he has quickly amassed a few short...
