Oldboy (2013) – Review Christopher Preston December 10, 2013 Reviews Chan-wook Park's Oldboy squints into a broken mirror. It sees not a reflection but a remake; Spike Lee's version of events gurns back - the very definition of a pointless movie. Stripped of the original's...
Making It Big: Wisdomkeepers, Paqo Andino David Brake December 6, 2013 Features, Independent, Making It Big So far in our quest to show you the great and glorious of the Kickstarter world, we've touched projects from all different backgrounds & genres - documentaries, animations and sci-fi shorts to name but a...
Top 10 Movie Flops of 2013 David Brake November 28, 2013 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Thanks to the wonderful people at Forbes (via BoxOfficeMojo), the biggest flops - financially speaking - have been revealed for 2013. Even with very little movie knowledge, the candidates are pretty obvious to...
Saving Mr. Banks – Review Christopher Preston November 18, 2013 Reviews 1 Comment Disney doing Disney, featuring Walt Disney. There was always going to be more than a spoonful of sugar to help this medicine go down, but the helping is so large in Saving Mr. Banks, it threatens to send you...
Making It Big: Three’s A Crowd David Brake November 18, 2013 Features, Independent, Making It Big In this installment of Making It Big, we're focusing on the little guy. About 4 inches tall to be precise. We're giving a boost to a new stop-motion film based in the U.K. from award winning animator, Trevor...
Short Term 12 – Review Christopher Preston November 13, 2013 Reviews 2 Comments An independent movie focusing on the consequences of child abuse does not sound like the year’s most uplifting film but, somehow, Short Term 12 has managed to be just that. Set almost entirely within a...
Blue is the Warmest Color – LFF Review Christopher Preston November 5, 2013 Reviews Blue is the Warmest Color’s reputation precedes it, for its graphic depiction of lesbian sex if not its Palme d’Or win earlier this year. But step over the controversy, and what you’ll find is a very...
Making It Big: Still David Brake November 1, 2013 Features, Independent, Making It Big In this next installment of Making It Big, we enter the horrors of the mind & witness our lead Alice Weldon survive her increasingly disturbing dreams following her recent hospitalization as well as...
12 Years a Slave – LFF review Christopher Preston October 31, 2013 Reviews 3 Comments No longer must Chiwetel Ejiofor suffer the slight of being labelled an "up-and-coming" actor. His performance in 12 Years a Slave ensures that he can trade in that tired soundbite and replace with another:...
Enough Said – Review David Brake October 26, 2013 Reviews 1 Comment James Gandolfini’s final bow is an impeccably performed, hugely likeable, entirely naturalistic romantic comedy for grown-ups. Avoiding the usual pitfalls and pratfalls of the genre, Holofcener’s...
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...