10 Films To See In March
Not sure what is coming out this month? I'll tell you what to check out in theaters, rent later and avoid altogether....
Festivals
Christopher Nolan’s Brother Rumored to Direct New Superman Film
It's as if kryptonite has spilled out of the superhero world and into our public water system - and we're all genetically connected to Clark Kent. Yes, the harsh thought of a first time director at the helm of the new Superman film might come to be an inevitable truth. But please, don't position a gun to your dome quite yet....
Film 2010: What Will The Next Decade Look Like?
ACTION
If the films of the 1990s gave us reasons for the end of the world, the films of the 2000s took those reasons to their logical conclusion. We were...
The Mars Volta’s Frontman To Debut ‘The Sentimental Engine Slayer’ In Rotterdam
According to The Playlist, Mars Volta guitarist and co-leader Omar Rodríguez-López has premiered his first feature length film, The Sentimental Engine Slaye...
[Interview] Writer/Director Hue Rhodes On ‘Saint John of Las Vegas’
Writer/Director Hue Rhodes (left of the photo) is a fascinating filmmaker to speak with. I had the pleasure of talking to him the other day on the phone about his debut feature film, Saint John of Las Vegas, which will open nationwide this Friday. [...]...
‘Red Riding’ Trailer and Poster
The Red Riding Trilogy is a series of modern noir films, each helmed by a different director and each taking place in a different year. They follow a "a ser...
[HIFF Review] Children of Invention
Syncopated Films | USA | 86 min.
It’s interesting when you’re a child how everything seems to be opposite of reality. Events that will pass by your life with...
[TIFF] Pre-Fest Schedule
The festival season is upon us. Dan Mecca and I will be headed to Canada this September to take on the 34th annual Toronto International Film Festival. I'll...
[Cannes Wrap Up] The End of L’avventura
The biggest film festival in the world has ended, and the winner of the Palme d'Or, Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, is a visually overwrought, underwhelm...
The Edge of Love on the Edge of Obscurity?
With an apparent (and certainly limited) U.S. release of this film finally coming on March 13th, here's a little diddy about The Edge of Love, directed by Joh...