Somerville local Rebecca Richman Cohen returns to IFFBoston with her latest film, Code of the West. The documentary follows the legal and emotional drama surrounding the crackdown on medicinal marijuana providers in Montana, the first state to have its legislature vote to repeal its medicinal marijuana law. Over the past year, we’ve heard about crack …
Beauty is Embarrassing is a documentary about Wayne White, an artist, art director, illustrator, puppeteer. Known for his illustrations in the New York Times, and perhaps even more so for his designs in the iconic Pee Wee’s Playhouse, White has had an amazing career, that has continued today into paintings and other public works. Judging …
A unique story of friendship, race, and self-discovery, Welcome to Pine Hill was born out of a chance encounter between filmmaker Keith Miller, and star Shannon Harper, who found themselves arguing over a lost dog one night in Brooklyn. The film had its world premiere at Slamdance last January, and won the Grand Jury Prize, …
A DANGEROUS METHOD David Cronenberg is the best director working that has never been nominated for a Best Director Oscar. He has always made movies that totally fuck Hollywood in the ass. Videodrome, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Scanners, The Fly…on and on and on are all movies that are highly regarded, yet fly under the radar. It’s a shame. …
ABDUCTION Ooooohhhh scaaaarryy!! A PG13 Abduction movie starring the douche werewolf homo from Twlight!! Yayyyy!! What really shocks me about this one is the other talent involved. I expect more from you, Alfred Molina…maybe not MUCH more, but more. And I am totally ashamed of you Sigourney Weaver. Yeah, I know…you gotta eat, but you …
COLOMBIANA: This looks, from the brief previews I’ve seen, like Steven Soderbergh’s next movie Haywire. Maybe they’re different, but they seem to both be about a trained kick-ass girl out for revenge. This one looks a little more stylized and less thought driven as Soderbergh’s, but not having seen either, I can’t say for sure. The PG-13 always throws me …
So, of course, besides running Lonely Reviewer.com, I’m also a filmmaker in my own right. And I recently participated in an fake trailer contest here in Boston, at the Brattle Theatre. The subject was “Labor Day,” and I created this fake trailer with a vague story and a lot of visual effects. Our video won …
So, Disney is back at it, and they’ve gone back to traditional animation! Check it out:
Frank Miller, the well-known writer of such things as ‘300,’ and ‘Sin City,’ and the co-director of the latter has released 40 pictures from his latest project- the live adaptation of Will Eisner’s famous comic book hero, The Spirit. Obviously, there’s some work still to be done. Miller is shooting ‘The Spirit’ much like ‘Sin …
As a follow up to our previous article discussing the upcoming direct-to-DVD feature ‘Batman: Gotham Knight’, Warner Bros. Home Video has issued a press release with the details of the upcoming DVD, now officially slated for availability on July 8, 2008. The DVD will hit shelves about a week and a half before the theater …