Category Archives: Film

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Film ‘Don’t Think’ Just Let it Flow

by Alexander Rose
February 3, 2012 - 10:00 am

In a post-Daft Punk world, where many live stage productions seem to pale in comparison to the iconic Pyramid that was retired in 2007, some seek refuge in deadmau5, others, The Chemical Brothers. In the early days of performing as The Chemical Brothers, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons have always incorporated a visual element to their live music. From the earliest days of slide and video projectors, the ‘live’ element of The Chemical Brothers has now evolved into a conglomerate of hundreds of lights, LED panels, digital imaging, and a whole touring staff working behind the scenes to make sure each show runs without interruption. Their latest multi-sensory effort, “Don’t Think,” is a movie based around their performance at last years Fuji Rocks Festival in Japan.

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Film “Immortals” Not So Legendary

by Dynast Amir
November 29, 2011 - 10:22 am

Allow me to first address the creative team at Legendary Films, who will probably never read this review, You are futile in your attempts at reproducing 300. Where I come from, to try is to fail and Legendary has been failing across the board when it comes to remaking the biased Spartan interpretation of the Battle of Thermopylae.

Lets go back in film history and take a look at a couple of Legendary’s features. 300 no review needed here. And if you saw the film and were not impressed by the spectacle of violence on film, to me your opinion doesn’t count anyway. There was enough testosterone pumping bloodshed in 300 to fuel a Mark McGuire and Barry Bonds home run derby. Then came Clash of the Titans, which was a remake of one of my favorite childhood films also titled Clash of the Titans. It had some of the most corny but entertaining cgi ever in a movie. There could be no possible way that the makers of 300 could ruin this movie but guess what, against all odd, they did #epicfail.

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Film The Glow Vs. Fist Of Fury – Bruce Leroy And Bruce Lee Battle For Hollywood Shaolin Supremacy

by Dynast Amir
November 7, 2011 - 2:56 pm

In the 80’s And 90’s Tinseltown was overly saturated with a bunch of corny ass karate movies. Chinese martial arts was being exploited like a F list actress on a Hollywood “casting couch.” You had “American Ninja,” “Three Little Ninjas” and “Gymkata” just to name a few. OK, I have to admit that I own two copies of “Gymkata” On DVD, don’t ask me how the plots were all the same. Spoiled suburban white kid from Mulberry somehow gets enrolled in the three day accelerated Shaolin Master Kung Fu Program, they champion The Snake, The Dragon, The Crane, The Panther, and The Tiger which is administered by the old Asian sensei who is for some reason on his death bed and can only garner enough strength to teach the young disciple these moves that took the master years to master. These newly initiated Kung Fu Masters now travel to uncharted and hazardous lands that even the most proficient shaolin monk of old couldn’t navigate. They annihilate all obstacles in their path and in the grand finale they crush the head nemesis that is a fingernail away from destroying the planet and for some odd reason the ancient monks couldn’t accomplish this feat so they had to enlist the one who knows the “ancient way of the tiger” from Mulberry because the prophecy said so.

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Film Fall of Night: Film Short Review

by Barbie Brady
November 7, 2011 - 2:41 pm

Fall of Night is a story of four roommates who have lived together for fifteen years, and one of those roommates is M. Night Shyamalan.

This charming short is either a letter of scorn for the critically slain M. Night Shyamalan, or an open plea for him to get back to the essentials that made him. Writers, Steven Haas and Ross Raventos have captured the essence of what it might be like to be regular people sharing a home with an eccentric like M. Night.

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Film What is Kamerapferd?

by Nicole Pajer
November 2, 2011 - 10:59 am

Earlier this month, the Methodist Church of Echo Park hosted a series of film screenings. Among the films that caught our eye was a series of 15 small clips, which visualize the world with the camera in pixilation “and a whole lot of fun.” The dynamic duo behind this project is Stephan Müller and Erik Schmitt. The pair of directors calls their project Kamerapferd, or “Camera Horse” to the US crowd. According to Schmitt, “Camera Horse is just a translation for you guys so you don’t think we’re complete freaks.”

Anyway, the film clips are really fun but not as fun as Camera Horse themselves. As Schmitt and Müller currently reside in Germany and couldn’t be with us at the festival, they took it upon themselves to dress in matching clothing, whirl around in office chairs, and tell us about their project through a snazzy video that they put together in response to our interview questions. Experience “Camera Horse” below.

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Film Something Big is Going Down… “Margin Call” (Film Review)

by Ariel Maccarone
October 25, 2011 - 8:26 am

The rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement has forced popular confrontation of the meaning of phrases like “these are hard times.” Unless you’ve spent time with a talkative grandparent who was alive during the Depression, not many of us understand what it means to wait in a soup line or to know a man who has killed himself after losing his life savings overnight. Recently released film “Margin Call” starring Kevin Spacey and Demi Moore effectively rams home these concepts for audiences in a way recent generations have yet to fully internalize.

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Film Violent Women in Film: Part Du

by Ariel Maccarone
October 24, 2011 - 11:27 am

Sex and violence sell. They are brands of identity just like the 1984 Ray Bans you sport alongside your trending saddle shoes and skinny jeans. It is the world we live in, and none of us will be able to drastically change it anytime soon. We can, however, begin to understand the culture that influences how we see one another and ourselves.

Today’s lesson: the relationship between violence and women as illustrated by upcoming horror film, “Julia X.” We touched upon “Julia X” in our recent article “Ladies Fight Back (and Win)” but the film is so dynamic that it warrants its own story. To refresh your memory, “Julia X” tells the story of a man and a woman who meet on an online dating site, which leads to an in-person encounter filled with an unexpected slew of macabre acts. In order to get the bottom of this film’s importance, we kidnapped its lead actor, Valerie Azlynn, and took our minds for a drive (no rope or duck tape required).

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Film Ladies Fight Back (and Win)

by Ariel Maccarone
October 18, 2011 - 11:50 am

Let us paint you a picture: end of the world; fires; floods; violence; no wifi. What do you do? You find a partner with whom to navigate the madness. Now imagine your options are say… Barak Obama, Bruce Willis and Angelina Jolie. Obviously you choose Bruce Willis. If you’ve been raised in the West (and we don’t mean Santa Monica) you do. Consider that the guy did a series of “Die Hard” films and maintains a composure surpassing that of Sylvester Stallone and any of these “Twilight” vampire kids. Bruce Willis is a “man’s man.” A “man’s man” is a survivor because he dominates his environment. So, what’s a woman’s woman then?

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Film “MONEYBALL” vs. “HE GOT GAME” and “THE DAMNED UNITED”

by Ariel Maccarone
September 30, 2011 - 5:50 pm

 

We are a nation of voyeurs. Ingrained in us is a deep-seeded obsession with celebrity, the hero and the underdog. We love to watch individuals rise. We love to taste their fall even more. And so is born the genre of sport-dramas.

“Moneyball” starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman opened last weekend. We’ve given it a week in theaters. And? What have the People to say?

As a filmmaker, if you’ve got a subject that’s been done a hundred times over (as with most sport-dramas), you’ve got a challenge on your hands. If you take that on, you better deliver. There are some films, however, that have hit it spot on. In order to illustrate, we offer a comparison of three films: “He Got Game,” “Moneyball,” and “The Damned United.”

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Film Is “Drive” Epic? (Film Review)

by admin
September 21, 2011 - 9:51 am

If you’ve given up on film being an art—which I know you have, even with the release of films like “Blue Valentine” (starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams) and “Hannah” (starring Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett)—you must see “Drive” starring Ryan Gosling again, Carey Mulligan and Albert Brooks. We’re not kidding. If you don’t see this, your friends will negate your whole view on film, and we all know how important peer approval is, right?

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