Tag: Film
Lee Daniels’ The Butler is simultaneously sprawling in its scope, and in-your-face, small-details gritty. Starring Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, an African American butler in the White House from the Eisenhower to Reagan administration, it jumps through two presidents in a single montage while slowing up to indulge strange tangents that totally aren’t pertinent to the […]
Lovelace (2013) There is this ancient celluloid scroll DEEPTHROAT w/LINDA LOVELACE w/clitoris not where clitorisies go, feat. many fellatios & v popular some half-century ago, important #censorship etc. But Linda’s story is #SAD so ☆ ENTER HOLLYWOOD ☆ Amanda Seyfried as “girl next door” HAHA James Franco as Hugh Hefner BAHAHAHA… but story SAD, so a […]
Elysium (2013) Earth’s one FUCKED giant diseased crime ridden favela. Also, Matt Damon. Rich people R neverever sick cuz they have .:☆*. magic sarcophagiiiii oOooOoo. :☆*:. in a mega-condo in the sky. Things are SO FUCKED. Orphan-to-gangsta-gone-straight goes up there all like POW ZAP ZAP KRRR for personal reasons but now to save the world… because bildungsroman THANKS […]
Have you been waiting for the new Spike Jonze film Her too? Exciting news: The film will premiere at this year’s 51st New York Film Festival (Sep 27 – Oct 13) at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, at the closing night gala. In the not so distant future, Theodore (Phoenix), a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating […]
We haven’t gotten a chance to watch DEFCON: The Documentary, but given its circumstances and pedigree, it’s almost certainly worth a viewing. Directed by longtime technology historian and filmmaker Jason Scott, the film focuses on DEF CON, the enormous and enormously influential Las Vegas convention (the latest iteration of which went down last week). According to Scott, […]
The Canyons (2013) STFU I WAITED FOR OVER A YEAR FOR THIS *breathe breathe* So, Bret At Do Bring Coke Easton Ellis wrote this script @ y he hates LA, TWINSIES! Lindsay’s back <3 +Male porn star. #hype. Meta-actor-director-drama stuff. It’s good STFU but if you’ve never had awkward group sex or been stalked by a […]
“Back in the day there was all these people, there were hundreds of people here for music that was made by teenagers and children basically,” explains filmmaker Samuel Peralta, who’s making a documentary with Anthony Clemente about the hardcore scene of their home borough, from 1982 to 2000. Why 2000? To quote the dudes from their Staten Island Hardcore: […]
“Ima show you something, this Rembrandt right here… itsa FAKE.” Whoa, there. Here is Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale with ridiculous hair playing some likable criminal protagonists, accessorized with Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams, hello. David O. Russell directs: American Hustle. Here’s your Scorsesian trailer. Who knew that art fraud can be so sexy? The story of a con artist […]
Savn.tv, a media production company associated with the religious and conservative Salvation Army is asking for $100,000 to fund their new anti-porn and anti-prostitution documentary Hard Corps on Kickstarter. The documentary contains interviews with “current and former porn stars, directors, anti-porn specialists and addiction therapists,” as well as “undercover footage” taken in brothels. Aside from exhibiting all the aesthetics […]
Computer Chess (2013) Andrew Bujalski mumblecored again, into an ’80s tournament between the newest chess-playing computer terminals. Hotel o’ Geeks. ADVENTURES! “Have you ever taken LSD?” Smart, so smart. Surrealism. Or is it? If you like chess, programming or thinking, see this film. If you like film, see this film. If you film, see this […]
