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Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie

Written & Directed by Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim
Produced by Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, Chris Henchy, Ben Cosgrove, Todd Wagner, Dave Kneebone, Jon Mugar, Heidecker & Wareheim
Released by Magnet Releasing
USA. 94 min. Rated R

If you’ve seen Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! on Adult Swim already, then I don’t have to tell you […]

By |March 1st, 2012|Comedy, TV series|1 Comment

Return

Written & Directed by Liza Johnson
Produced by Noah Harlan, Ben Howe & Johnson
Teleased by DADA Films.
USA. 97 min. Not rated
With Linda Cardellini, Michael Shannon, John Slattery, Talia Balsam, Bonnie Swencionis, Emma Rayne Lyle & Paul Sparks
This may be the year of the relapse movie. In the case of Return, the drug is the armed forces. […]

By |February 10th, 2012|Indie, War|0 Comments

Sundance Film Festival 2012

After a foot of snow on opening weekend, it was been nothing but blue skies in Park City last week. But enough about the weather, here’s the word on the shuttle buses.

Worth the hype: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin’s follow-up to his Sundance short Glory at Sea, was a favorite for the Grand […]

By |February 2nd, 2012|Festivals|0 Comments

Pariah

Written & Directed by Dee Rees
Produced by Nekisa Cooper
Released by Focus Features
USA. 86 min. Rated R
With Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis, Charles Parnell, Sahra Mellesse, Kim Wayans & Shamika Cotton
Every year another indie could be the last one ever shot on film. But 35mm keeps hanging on, and beautifully so in Dee Rees’s Sundance […]

By |January 18th, 2012|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, GLBT, Indie, Top Picks|0 Comments

Another Happy Day

Written & Directed by Sam Levinson
Produced by Ellen Barkin, Pamela Fielder, Johnny Lin, Michael Nardelli, Salli Newman, Celine Rattray & Todd Traina
Released by Phase 4 Films
USA. 115 min. Rated R
With Ellen Barkin, Ezra Miller, Kate Bosworth, Demi Moore, Thomas Haden Church, George Kennedy, Ellen Burstyn, Siobhan Fallon & Michael Nardelli

…And the award for the most emotional […]

By |December 1st, 2011|Comedy, Drama, Indie, Sundance Film Festival|0 Comments

House of Pleasures

Written & Directed by Bertrand Bonello
Produced by Bonello & Kristina Larsen
Released by Sundance Selects
French with English subtitles
France. 125 min. Not rated
With Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette, Jasmine Trinca, Adèle Haenel, Noémie Lvovsky, Alice Barnole & Iliana Zabeth

Set in a brothel at the turn of the 20th century Paris, this methodical if overly heady period drama  may […]

By |November 23rd, 2011|Costume Drama, Drama, French|0 Comments

The Descendants

Directed by Alexander Payne
Produced by Jim Burke & Payne
Written by Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings;; Released by Fox Searchlight.
USA. 115 min. Rated R
With George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Robert Forster, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, Nick Krause, Amara Miller, Mary Birdsong, & Rob Huebel

George Clooney invokes […]

By |November 18th, 2011|American, Comedy, Drama|1 Comment

Melancholia

Written & Directed by Lars von Trier
Produced by Meta Louise Foldager & Louise Vesth
Released by Magnolia Pictures
Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany. 135 min. Not rated
With Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgard, Brady Corbet, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgard, Udo Kier & Kiefer Sutherland

Sometimes you can’t quite tell if what you’re feeling is agony or relief—in movies and in […]

By |November 11th, 2011|Foreign, Psychological thriller, Recommended, Sci-fi|0 Comments

The Other F Word

Written & Directed by Andrea Blaugrund NevinsProduced by Cristan ReillyReleased by Oscilloscope LaboratoriesUSA. 99 min. Not ratedWith Jim Lindberg, Flea, Tony Adolescent, Fat Mike, Tony Hawk, Mark Mothersbaugh, Ron Reyes, Tim Mcllrath, Joe Escalante, Mark Hoppus & Lars Fredericksen

Fat Mike of the band NOFX sprays fake butter on his daughter’s toast, Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 […]

By |November 1st, 2011|Documentary, Music, Recommended, Top Picks|0 Comments