Gravity – LFF Review David Brake October 10, 2013 Reviews 2 Comments "I think a future flight should include a poet, a priest and a philosopher . . . we might get a much better idea of what we saw." - Michael Collins, the pilot of Apollo 11, describing his views from the...
Making It Big: Drunktown’s Finest David Brake October 9, 2013 Features, Independent, Making It Big 1 Comment In the next Making It Big, I’m going from a sleek vision of the future to a feature film about the tough lives of three young Navajo struggling to find their success in a reservation border-town defined by...
Making It Big: The Last Generation to Die David Brake October 2, 2013 Features, Independent, Making It Big In a new series of articles, I'm going to take a look at those independent film makers hoping to make it to the big time. So in the suitably titled, 'Making It Big', we'll be promoting these new exciting...
We’re the Millers – Review Stephen O'Nion September 25, 2013 Reviews 1 Comment Not all of We're the Millers' jokes are in the ubiquitous trailers. A lot of them are, but not all. Plus the trailers do have a lot of jokes. Wacky drug-smuggling action serves to unite this...
51 Pieces of Movie Trivia You May Not Know David Brake August 19, 2013 Features, Nostalgia, Ten Degrees of Trivia 5 Comments You've had 50 slices of movie trivia so let's go one better. Literally. ENJOY! 1. Die Hard originated from the failed script of Commando 2. 2. Samuel L. Jackson demanded that the studio keep Snakes on a...
50 Slices of Movie Trivia You May Not Know David Brake May 8, 2013 Features, Nostalgia, Ten Degrees of Trivia 23 Comments 1. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was the first film to ever show a toilet flush. 2. After Jaws, Spielberg tried to hang around the movie set for Alfred Hitchcock's 1976 film Family Plot in the hope of...
R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen David Brake May 7, 2013 Analysis, Features, One Off 1 Comment “They were considered B pictures because they were made on a tight budget. But we outlived many of the A pictures made at the same time” – Ray Harryhausen This morning, May 7, 2013, a film great left...