Coping with the loss of a loved one is a difficult undertaking. Some retreat into a shell of sorts. Some turn to drugs or alcohol to mask the pain. Michael King does none of these. Instead, he chooses to face off with what he believes is the cause of his wife’s death — charlatan soothsayers….
The Garrett Hedlund Dilemma: How To Avoid Outlaw Clichés and Maximize Potential. Does the above text currently exist? No, not yet it doesn’t — but the world of cinema may demand it by 2015. The opening scenes of Andrew Levitas’ feature debut, Lullaby, have Mr. Hedlund mirroring the roles of “On The Road” and “Inside…
Farts, dogfights, and miscarriages. In part, the perfect additions to a horror flick. Right? Well, not really. But the 26 directors (and 12 producers, and 14 writers) of The ABCs of Death certainly believed so. Otherwise they wouldn’t have added those and a host of other topics involving bodily functions and strange dreamed up shit…
Even though Your Sister’s Sister is set mostly in the open air of a secluded area of a Puget Sound island, it feels a bit claustrophobic because of the very small cast. There are only three characters who perform 99% of the film’s interactions and there are only so many combinations a screenplay can invent…
On account of its dense and lengthy disposition, adapting Patrick White’s acclaimed novel “The Eye of the Storm” for the screen was never going to be easy. In the hands of Melburnian filmmaker Fred Schepisi, though, the adaptation has given rise to an engrossing acting master-class of a drama. Set in Sydney sometime during the…
The second theatrical trailer for the supernatural induced Armageddon film 11-11-11 is now online. In it, an American widower begins to unveil clues to a coming invasion of demons to our Earthly realm. Finding himself alone and in a foreign land, he works feverishly to get believed and put together a plan to stop the…
I didn’t think it was possible, but apparently one can squeeze blood from a turnip. The vegetable in this case is the “Final Destination” series. The blood, well, that is Final Destination 5, the fifth movie in this one-note franchise sure to once again raise the heartbeat of moviegoers keen on watching the young and…
