Maine spends the first ten minutes immersing the viewers in its setting. There is no dialogue, just the picturesque Appalachian Trail, the sound of the wind, and a woman (Laia Costa, “Victoria”) going about her business, which involves peeing in the bushes and fiddling about with sanitary products. The immersion in nature and its elements…
As the ragged and haggard anti-hero in Jean-François Richet’s rollicking grind-house showcase Blood Father, lead character John Link is a lost wrecking ball in search of raging redemption despite whatever erratic and intrinsic demons that beleaguered his unstable psyche. Well, this description can also be applied to the relentlessly problematic performer playing this graying, leather-skinned…
“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined . . . to strengthen each other . . . to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories” — George Eliot Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival,…
In my high school days, I wrote a script about a hitman who does drugs with Jesus. I thought it was edgy. Fortunately, you’ll never see it to know otherwise. Occasionally though, juvenile ideas like that land on the desks of eager producers. In rarer cases, they’re blessed with a million dollars and a distribution…
The first trailer for Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters was entertaining enough. The red-band trailer released today for it is even more entertaining (unless, one doesn’t enjoy action with comical explosions, gore and corny one-liners). In this re-imagining, Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton portray the fairy tale duo 15 years after their famed encounter with…
The re-imaging of fairy tale characters is officially upon us. Taking cues from Snow White’s toughening up (“Snow White and the Huntsman“) comes Paramount Pictures’ Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. 15 years removed from the gingerbread house where they were both almost eaten by a witch, Hansel (Renner) and Gretel (Arterton) take up leather and…
I’m college-aged, enjoy bad movies, and have a foul-mouth, therefore, I am the perfect candidate for Nima Nourizadeh’s Project X. At the same time, I’m potty-trained, and that makes me too sophisticated for it. Loosely based on an Australian house party where a teenager posted his address on MySpace, attracting over 500 people and causing…
