I want to rub this trailer all over me – A Single Shot
Director David M. Rosenthal’s past films (with all of which I am unfamiliar) seems to be a collection of unpredictable, and I’m guessing campy, comedies. One did indeed feature Snoop Dogg and Rachel Leigh Cook, so you decide. Nonetheless, the trailer for A Single Shot is electrifying. I want to see it so hard. Read More
Iron Man 3 is Coming
The San Francisco International Film Festival begins next week and I’m excited to be covering the festival for the third year in a row. It’s exciting taking a peek at some of the films that will slowly be trickling into theaters throughout the rest of the year. With a host of great movies due for release, it is interesting to consider how many will be sequels, sequels that... Read More
Why I want to rub movie posters all over me
It’s no secret that I want to rub a number of movie posters all over me. The film industry staked its claim on a large part of the popular culture of the last century. This is why the posters associated with many of these films became nothing short of iconic. A film poster has every right to be as treasured as an album cover, and the best ones seem to encapsulate exactly what... Read More
I want to rub this trailer all over me – Only God Forgives
I am not ashamed to admit I saw Drive in the theatre three times. You could say I’m pretty excited about Only God Forgives. Read More
Robot & Frank
Is it impossible not to be charmed by a film about a retired cat burglar who becomes friends with his robot care taker, who then become burgling together? Almost. Especially in the capable hands of a man as talented as Frank Langella. It is he who plays the titular Frank. Robot is voiced by a HAL9000-sounding Peter Sarsgaard. Frank’s children are played by Liv Tyler and... Read More
Compliance
As infuriating as Craig Zobel’s Compliance is, any righteous indignation will likely be potentiated when considering the fact this story is true, based on true events. What’s worse, and perhaps the most intriguing, is there may be something inside you that says you may just have acted the same way if you were in the same circumstances that Zobel’s characters found... Read More
Lawless
by Adam Young Sitting down in the theatre to watch lawless with my wife and friends, I had mixed emotions and no serious expectations outside of the fact that I knew there would be violence and some very slick hair cuts. What I left the theatre with was much, much more than I expected. Lawless follows the bootlegging careers of the three Bondurant brothers Jack (Shia LaBeouf),... Read More
I want to rub this trailer all over me – Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas is a 2004 novel by British author David Mitchell. It won much acclaim upon its release, it was even shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It consists of six stories that take place in different time periods, from the South Pacific in the 19th century, to the distance, post-apocalyptic future. Like Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, all these seemingly... Read More
Cosmopolis
There were those that worried David Cronenberg’s last film, A Dangerous Method, was if anything, not dangerous at all. The director, with his infamous reputation as the king of horror and the macabre, came out a four-year hiatus not with a bang, but more with a whimper. This move was particularly disappointing considering his strong displays the few previous years which included... Read More
