Katie Holmes in ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark’ As it has with most popular trends these days, “vintage” filmmaking has found its way into mainstream cinema in recent years. While many genres are finding ways to incorporate a vintage feel with subtle nods to their inspirations, no other genre (continued…)
These days a film is never just a film. The marriage of movies and music is nothing new, yet music, coupled with a motion picture, has the power to make or break it. While some fall short, others have carried their films to success. Here is a list of a (continued…)
So, in case you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m a big fan of genre films. Particularly horror/sci-fi/cult/exploitation films. Thus I was pretty damn excited to hear about the latest project by DrafthouseFilms, The ABC’s of Death. The project is essentially an amped-up, genre-fied take on the whole ‘collaborative (continued…)
Animation is a hell of a lot of work. My good friend is an animator and I’ve watched him work on a simple 15-second scene in 3D that took him three weeks to accomplish. Sure, Disney and Pixar can churn out a few animated films a year, but they also (continued…)
In The Whistleblower, Rachel Weisz plays an American police woman who takes a contract job with the U.N. in Bosnia as an International Police Force monitor, and later uncovers a shocking scandal of human sex trafficking linked to the U.N. The film is a riveting and stylish political thriller that (continued…)
Featured · Film & Animation · Film Obsessions
Typically, with this Film Obsessions column, I like to showcase new and original short films by up and coming, independent filmmakers. It’s important to share and help spread the work that people put countless hours and hard-earned money into out of sheer passion for their art. That’s the aim of (continued…)
Whether it be about social issues, global issues, environmental issues, politics, music, fashion, art or fascinating people, documentaries have an unprecedented power to move and inspire. Perhaps what makes documentaries more inspiring than narrative films, is the fact that it is indeed real life and that inspirational power is meant (continued…)
In a way, making a short film can be much harder than a feature length. That’s not to deny the difficulty, endless hours and labor that go into the production of a feature length film, but rather to highlight the other types of challenges that are often overlooked in the (continued…)
When I pick films for a Film Obsessions column, I usually try to tie them together with a common theme. Whether it be documentaries, award-winning shorts, animated, etc., I try to string it altogether so that a certain theme is prevalent in each edition of this column. Today, I got (continued…)
Making a successful documentary is no easy feat. Sure, as the saying goes “everyone has a story to tell”, but what most people don’t realize is that not everyone knows how to tell it. That is why a well-crafted documentary film can hold such absorbing power and raw emotion- because (continued…)
Every weekend, thousands of people flock to theatres to catch the latest blockbusters. What with the millions of dollars studios pump into these movies that are used to destroy cities, convert everything into 3D, and dress up Tyler Perry like an angry, overweight, elderly woman, who can blame them? It’s (continued…)
Film & Animation · Film Obsessions
What if you could access 100% of your brain’s ability instead of the 10% we all use now? How differently would you live your life? What job would you have, who would you date or marry? Bradley Cooper’s character Eddie Morra has the opportunity to test a new experimental drug (continued…)
Film & Animation · Film Obsessions
I am slowly becoming convinced that some of the best films are those found on the internet. Prior to the internet, having your movie seen by millions usually meant you had a distribution deal. Today, there are millions of movies available to us online, many by talented filmmakers that never (continued…)
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