Floating on the Surface
Thomas Moore04.08.13
Thomas Moore heads to the PC Beach of the mind and revels in the shallows of Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers.
The Little We See In Moscow Case 1993
Christina Lee03.06.13
Michael Jackson: Moscow Case 1993: An overlooked documentary offers a brief but devastating glimpse at the King of Pop during his fall from grace, a time we would rather forget.
TV Party: Oscars 2013
Kevin Killian02.25.13
Ok, so you probably skipped the Oscars to watch The Walking Dead and Girls instead, and believe you me Spreadeagle author Kevin Killian gets that. Still it’s fun to see what stars show up looking high (Renee, the Kristens anyone?). Here’s the saucy highlight reel 2013 Academy Awards wrap-up to save you from your DVR.
The Revolution Will Not Be Filmed
Bradford Nordeen01.02.13
Bradford Nordeen strips down the appeal of Step Up: Revolution according to the evolution of modern cinema and lays bare the most basic bones of the attraction of spectacle.
Past Tense
Thomas Moore12.31.12
Thomas Moore shares his Best of 2012 list now that the world hasn’t ended and more things happened than Xiu Xiu’s Always.
Possession: Once Upon a Time in America
Mark Asch11.29.12
Thirty years on there’s yet another cut of Sergio Leone’s epic of assimilation in the early 20th century, Once Upon A Time In America where murder, rape, booze and opium make the palette of a focus of nature, red in tooth and claw. Mark Asch reviews on the occasion of a Film Forum screening.
Moving Picture Show
Bradford Nordeen10.15.12
Bradford Nordeen brings together high- and low-brow offerings for the Laterna Magica set: new work by avant garde filmmaker Michael Robinson & and 2012′s TV indulgence Revenge. Get stuck in.
Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher’s Off Label
Justin Stewart04.25.12
Medicine can be life saving, or poisonous. Can we come by the medicines we take without human guinea pigs? Where we once used prisoners, now there is a subculture of volunteers. Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, directors of the much lauded October Country are back with a haunting document of the “off label” world. Off Label premiered this weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival and is on to competition in Hotdocs in Toronto and then the San Francisco International Film Fest. Justin Stewart reviews.
It Was Acceptable in the 90s
Bradford Nordeen04.25.12
Some big historically notable ship sank (again, on film), someone stuck their dick in pie, and Buffy was the hottest vampire SLAYER going. It was the 90s and it’s happening again in a theater near you. Ship sinking (but in 3D), pie molestors getting together for a reunion and more Vamps than you can shake a cross at. Oh and Cabin in the Woods, which is timeless right? Bradford Nordeen takes us to the multiplex.
Jon Raymond’s Contradictory Territories: From Page to Screen
Donal Mosher04.19.12
Jon Raymond is the incredibly adroit screenwriter behind Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy, Old Joy, Meek’s Cutoff and the award winning tv miniseries Mildred Pierce. He’s also an author, and his latest novel Rain Dragon is reviewed here by filmmaker Donal Mosher (whose latest Off Label debuts at the Tribeca Film Festival tonight…review on that soon!). The two also sit down for a chat about the differences between script and prose writing and a heap of other tasty, sage stuff.
