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Mark Burton and Richard Starzak — Puns, Cryptomnesia, and Dreams with SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE

August 6, 2015 By 1 Comment

Mark Burton and Richard Starzak — Puns, Cryptomnesia, and Dreams with SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE

Aardman Animation.  For hordes of animation fans, you don’t need to say anything else about a film in order to get them to pack a theater. I, however, will add that the latest from that storied studio, the SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE, is everything that not just a great Aardman film should be, but also… Read More »

Tagged With: A Close Shave, Aardman Animation, animation, animators, cinema, Cryptomnesia, film, Mark Burton, movie, Nick Park, Peter Lord, plasticine, puns, puppet runner, Richard Starzak, Shaun the Sheep, sheep, silent film, stop-frame animation, stop-motion, Tom and Jerry cartoons, Vladimir Putin, Wallace and Gromit

DOPE is Genius

July 3, 2015 By 2 Comments

DOPE is Genius

DOPE is a provocative blend of gritty realism, gentle compassion, and piercing social satire that is so unlike anything that has come before that its maker, Rick Famuyima, may have just invented a new cinematic sub-genre in the spirit, and brilliance, of the Coen Brothers’ FARGO.  Boldly venturing into issues of identity, class, gender, sexuality,… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema, class issues, DOPE, film, geek culture, gender issue, hip-hop, movie, narrative, race relations, Rick Famuyima, social satire, The Bottoms

Maya Forbes’ Pet INFINITELY POLAR BEAR

June 19, 2015 By 1 Comment

Maya Forbes’ Pet INFINITELY POLAR BEAR

Click here to listen to the interview. Maya Forbes has been a screenwriter for years, with co-credits for MONSTERS AND ALIENS and DIARY OF A WIMPY KID to her credit. She was also a writer and story editor on HBO’s groundbreaking THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW. For her directorial debut, though, she chose a script she… Read More »

Tagged With: autobiography, based on a true story, bi-racia;, Bipolar Disorder, cinema, father-daughter, hypomania, Imogene Wolodarsky, Mark Ruffalo, Maya Forbes, mental illness, movie, narrative, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST, race, Zoe Saldana

Wade Gasque and Mark Strano are TIGER ORANGE

June 2, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Wade Gasque and Mark Strano are TIGER ORANGE

Wade Gasque and Mark Strano are partners in the film business and in life. When I spoke to them by phone on June 2, 2015, the first question I had was about the sort of trust they have in each other when working on a film that is so personal to Strano. We went on… Read More »

Tagged With: Best Actor, father-son relationship, Frankie Valenti, fraternal relationship, Johnny Hazzard, LGBT, Mark Strano, movie, narrative, Outfest Grand Jury Award, single father, small town, TIGER ORANGE, Wade Gasque

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

May 13, 2015 By Leave a Comment

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

George Miller first sent Mad Max blazing across the sere post-apocalyptic landscape in 1979 and thence onto cinematic legend. Sequels followed. Mel Gibson in the eponymous role rose to international fame and, eventually, Miller moved on to different sorts of classics with BABE and HAPPY FEET. Now, thirty years and more later, he is revisiting… Read More »

Tagged With: Charlize Theron, cinema, dystopian future, George Miller, Hugh Keays-Byrne, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, movie, narrative, Nicholas Hoult, patriarchy, post-apocalyptic, reboot, Sci-fi, Toecutter, Tom Hardy

A Cold Reception for HOT PURSUIT

May 7, 2015 By Leave a Comment

A Cold Reception for HOT PURSUIT

If anyone could have saved HOT PURSUIT, it would have been Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara. Aside from having scads of talent and audience appeal, they both have a keen understanding of their strengths as performers, yet they never quite cross the line into becoming caricatures of themselves.  Here, the co-stars and co-producers have found… Read More »

Tagged With: comedy, HOT PURSUIT, movie, Razzie contender, Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara

Nick Broomfield Tells TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER

April 27, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Nick Broomfield Tells TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER

Nick Broomfield makes documentaries that seek the truth and report it without fear or favor to anyone. There is no better example of what he does, and why it makes for such compelling cinema, than TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER, which takes on the reasons why a 25-year killing spree by the eponymous serial killer… Read More »

Tagged With: Anitra Washington, backgammon, Barney Broomfield, Christine Pelisek, Christopher Franklin, corruption, DNA testing, documentary, Grim Sleeper murders, incarceration rates, LA Weekly, LAPD, Lonnie Franklin, movie, NHI, Nick Broomfield, No Human Involved, orange pinto, Pam Brooks, peckerwood, racism, serial killer, South Central Los Angeles, TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER, Tiffany Haddish, true crime

IT FOLLOWS and It’s Relentless

March 27, 2015 By Leave a Comment

IT FOLLOWS and It’s Relentless

IT FOLLOWS slyly juxtaposes the familiar with the alien as it tells its exceptionally effective tale of terror. The clichéd tropes of low-budget horror — the remote lake house, the eager and nubile kids having sex in the back seat of a car, a terrified girl in high heels and lingerie running in terror down… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema, curse, film, haunting, horror, movie, narrative, sexually transmitted curse

HOME is Where the Heart is

March 27, 2015 By Leave a Comment

HOME is Where the Heart is

Based on the novel “The True Meaning of Smekday” by Adam Rex, HOME is a sweet animated film that is equal parts cheery and poignant.  Aimed more at kids than at adults, it takes the time-honored themes of friendship, family, and keeping promises and wraps them in an imaginative new package as shiny and inviting… Read More »

Tagged With: "The True Meaning of Smekday", Adam Rex, alien invasion, animation, Dreamworks, Jennifer Lopez, Jim Parsons, kids, movie, Rihanna, Steve Martin, young adult

DANNY COLLINS Overcomes

March 25, 2015 By Leave a Comment

DANNY COLLINS Overcomes

Narratively, DANNY COLLINS commits more than a few faux pas, but there is such warmth to the melancholy of a life discovered to have been wasted, that the winces they produce are worth enduring. Writer/director Dan Fogelman (CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE) may be too quick the play the melodrama card, but I prefer to focus on… Read More »

Tagged With: Al Pacino, Annette Benning, Bobby Cannavale, comedy-drama, Dan Fogelman, DANNY COLLINS, father-son relationship, film, Jennifer Garner, John Lennon, mid-life crisis, movie, rock star, singer

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