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The 2008 Cannes Film Festival Awards Have Been Announced… Should You Care? The 2008 Cannes Film Festival is over and the awards have been announced. Cue the crickets. Sorry, that was wrong, cue le crickets. By Rob Hunter on May 28, 2008 | Be the First To Comment |
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Madonna and Child – Michael Moore to Highlight Her Film After seeing her film I Am Becasue We Are at the Cannes Film Festival, Moore announced that Madonna will appear at his Traverse City Film Festival on August 2 to showcase her work. By Kevin Carr on May 23, 2008 | Comments (1) |
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Ohio 24-Hour Science Fiction Marathon Wrap-Up This weekend, the mecca of geekdom was the Drexel Theater in Columbus, Ohio. More than 300 people gathered for 24 hours of science fiction movies. Several of the Rejects were in attendance to enjoy the good, the bad and the ugly that science fiction cinema had to offer. By Kevin Carr on April 21, 2008 | Comments (3) |
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SciFi Marathon Schedule Announced The complete schedule of the 25th Annual Ohio 24-Hour Science Fiction Marathon has finally been announced. Several of the rejects will be in attendance, enjoying the full grindhouse experience of an all-night movie marathon. By Kevin Carr on April 17, 2008 | Be the First To Comment |
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Tarantino to do What He Does Best at Cannes, Talk About Himself The man’s formative years were spent flinging his extensive film knowledge in the general direction of willing and unwilling ears and his movies are laced with comments on films, past and present. So who better to stand in front of a room full of attentive film lovers and natter to his heart’s content? By Bradley Kreft on April 11, 2008 | Be the First To Comment |
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25th Annual Ohio 24-Hour Science Fiction Marathon The Ohio 24-Hour Sci-Fi Marathon is more then just movies. Each year, you get to see hours of additional material like rare and vintage trailers, short subjects, classic cartoons and so much more. By Kevin Carr on April 7, 2008 | Be the First To Comment |
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Speed Racer to Close Tribeca Film Festival Today we got some cool news from the Tribeca Press office that the festival, which was founded in 2001 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, will close with The Wachowski’s tripped out, CGI-infused cartoon adaptation Speed Racer. By Neil Miller on April 2, 2008 | Be the First To Comment |
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Making Some Noise: A Q&A With Director Henry Bean Henry Bean’s latest film, Noise, about a man who tries to silence New York City by breaking into cars and disconnecting the alarms is based on a true story. It’s partly his own. I don’t just mean he wrote the script. I mean it’s based on his own life. By Danny Gallagher on March 31, 2008 | Be the First To Comment |
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Lost in the Copycat Clusterf&%k: Embedded in the AFI Dallas International Film Festival It’s an hour and a half from McKinney to Dallas. It consists of a half hour straight shot towards the heart of the Big D followed by an hour of twisting concrete that go back and forth, over and under, on top and underneath each other in order to squeeze every square inch of land into driving space for the daily commuters. By Danny Gallagher on March 31, 2008 | Be the First To Comment |
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Al Gore has global warming. Rev. Jim Phelps has homosexuality. Uwe Boll has film critics. Everyone needs something to fight whether it matters to the rest of the world or not and director Henry Bean takes noise pollution to task in his sarcastic, clever, witty David and Goliath comedy Noise. By Danny Gallagher on March 31, 2008 | Be the First To Comment |
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AFI Dallas 08: Tracing Cowboys Director/Screenwriter Jason Wulfsohn and screenwriter/actor Sacha Grunpeter experiment with a unique way of delivering their message in Tracing Cowboys, but its delivery makes to hard to want to discover it. By Danny Gallagher on March 30, 2008 | Be the First To Comment |
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AFI Dallas 08: Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson Every journalist who actually carries about journalism knows the legend of Hunter S. Thompson. They know about his love affair with guns, explosives and other things that go “Boom” and can wake up enter counties. By Danny Gallagher on March 30, 2008 | Comments (2) |
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Paranoid Park - New York Film Festival Early on in Paranoid Park we see its adolescent protagonist, Gabe Nevins, from the rear as he walks towards a bench in an overgrown field to sit down and write something—a memoir? a letter?—that he calls “Paranoid Park”. By H. Stewart on October 20, 2007 | Comments (1) |
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Screamfest LA 2007: Wrong Turn 2 What do you get when you combine Henry Rollins, inbred mutants, and a guy named Texas Battle? Wrong Turn 2, a film at this years Screamfest and recent DVD I also happened to get my mitts on, that’s what! This movie is available now on DVD and has been getting some pretty positive reviews in the genre community. Does it live up to the hype? Read on! By Robert Fure on October 20, 2007 | Comments (2) |
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Screamfest LA 2007: Planet Terror Extended and Unrated The good people at Screamfest LA this year saw fit to have us in for a screening of Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror which came out on DVD this week. Lucky for us my quick hands and the strong arm of a Screamfest presenter lead to me catching a copy of this half of Grindhouse. By Robert Fure on October 19, 2007 | Comments (2) |
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Screamfest LA 2007: 30 Days of Night The cornerstone of this year’s Screamfest film festival in lovely Los Angeles was the much anticipated 30 Days of Night from ever present comic scribe Steve Niles and brought to the screen by David Slade, who is riding his last film Hard Candy straight to the top. By Robert Fure on October 19, 2007 | Be the First To Comment |
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The 22nd Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival About 90 miles northwest of Los Angeles is the city of Santa Barbara, California, which claims to be the American Riviera. By El Bicho on March 20, 2007 | Be the First To Comment |
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The 47th Thessaloniki Film Festival November 17th - 26th |
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Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (Screamfest ‘06) Release Date: TBD |
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So did the movie pleasantly surprise me? No, afraid not. The story follows David, a youth troubled by the suicide of his “rock-star” older brother who is sent off to Driftwood, a youth rehabilitation facility. Or as most people call it, a prison. There he’s haunted by images of a dead boy who turns out to have died mysteriously (duh) and just happened to be the nephew of DDP’s character, the delightfully nasty Captain Doug Kennedy. Weird stuff happens, secrets are revealed, justice is done. By Robert Fure on December 1, 2006 | Be the First To Comment |
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Release Date: TBA (tentative March 2007) |
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Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (Screamfest ‘06) Release Date: October 28, 2006 (television) |
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Hey all. Long time no talk. I’m going to hip you up to Screamfest just in time for Halloween. Wait what? Just in time for Thanksgiving? Oh no, really? Just in time for the start of December? Well ok. My bad. I’ve been a little overwhelmed lately and haven’t […] By Robert Fure on November 29, 2006 | Comments (1) |
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Film Festival: Screamfest LA 2006 In the words of Screamfest themselves, here’s what they say: |
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Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (Austin Film Festival ‘06) The reviews on this will probably be a mix of A’s and F’s. It’s either love or hate for the D, and movie-goers won’t be able to know which side they’re on until they pay their ten bucks for a seat. By Cole Abaius on November 21, 2006 | Comments (5) |
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AFF Diary - Day 7: So close, yet so far out I was excited for the end of the festival to come because I was anxious to get home, and also because the last two days’ movies were going to be a great experience. Word came today that the last TBA film for the closing night would be Nightmare Detective, a movie I figured I’d have […] By Cole Abaius on November 15, 2006 | Comments (1) |
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Military Intelligence and You! (Austin Film Festival ‘06) Making movies just isn’t good enough anymore. We’re thrusting headlong into an exciting new world where movies aren’t just biographical, but fictionally biographical; not just documentaries, but mockumentaries; not just fictional, but reality-based fiction. With meta-humor becoming as commonplace in comedies as explosions in action flicks, it’s getting tougher to create the next big twist on classic stories. By Cole Abaius on November 15, 2006 | Comments (1) |
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Run, Robot, Run! (Austin Film Festival ‘06) There are more than two parts to making every movie, but if it had to be done, the process could be split into concept and execution. Every critic knows this since many of them rely solely on the arsenal of insults involving the execution of a film, praising its concept as genius while distressing over how it could have been made better. I’m not one to follow trends, but after watching this movie, I’m forced to say that I loved Run, Robot, Run!’s ideas and yawned at the way they were presented. By Cole Abaius on November 15, 2006 | Comments (2) |
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AFF Diary - Day 6: Downhill from here The festival is almost over by this point - most of the L.A. types (excluding myself) have all flown back to their respective homes where they are, as all know, waited on by man-servants and washed by professional bathers. Yes, rich and poor alike all take in the luxury that is Los Angeles. |
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The Room (Austin Film Festival ‘06) Coming straight from Belgium, the horror capital of the universe comes the striking tale of a morally repugnant family that finds a door in their house where one wasn’t there before. It sounds intriguing, but although the idea is interesting, the execution is terrible. By Cole Abaius on November 12, 2006 | Comments (1) |