This week’s Kickstart Sunday pick is the upcoming horror film Ayla from director Elias. The film is about a man whose obsession with the death of his sister causes her to haunt him and manifest into a physical being.
Continuing our mid-year top 10 lists, below you’ll find my own picks for my favorite films released this year. If you listen to last week’s podcast, you can hear me talk about this list in slightly more detail and also
It’s mid-year list time, and I have decided to take a slightly different approach to my list of top films, breaking them out into genre, rather than in a traditional ranking.
For those who are still looking for a great
With our mid-year top 10s rolling on, below you’ll find Ernie Trinidad‘s picks for the best of the year so far. Unsurprisingly, Mad Max: Fury Road takes the No. 1 spot, a film that I imagine will be landing on the top
We’re just about halfway through 2015, so it’s time again to check in with the Film Pulse team and see what everyone’s favorite films of this year are so far. We kick things off with Blake Crane‘s picks below, check
This week on the show, Adam and Kevin review David Gordon Green's latest, Manglehorn, starring Al Pacino, and count down their top 10 films of 2015 so far. Other films discussed include 7 Chinese Brothers, Jurassic World, Over the Top, Welcome to Leith, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Burying the Ex, City Lights, Dope, Meet Him and Die, and Inside Out.
This week’s Kickstart Sunday pick comes to us from directors Sachi Cunningham and Chandler Evans and their upcoming documentary Crutch, taking a look at the life of Bill Shannon, a disabled skate punk and break dancer who uses his crutches as
This week’s Kickstart Sunday pick comes to us from Adam Nimoy and his documentary For the Love of Spock, a look at the iconic Star Trek character originally played by his father, Leonard Nimoy.
This Kickstarter project currently has
This week’s Kickstart Sunday pick comes to us from directors Justin Schein and David Mehlman and their upcoming documentary Left on Purpose: The Disruptive Life of Mayer Vishner. The film profiles anti-war activist Mayer Vishner, his work with Abbie Hoffman, and his last political act –
Way back in December of 2013 we highlighted a short film titled Kung Fury as part of our Kickstart Sunday feature, and today the film has officially been released on YouTube for free as promised. This 30-minute short, a glorious
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Thanatos, Drunk is a fairly straightforward narrative, a slice of life excursion through the nightclubs and narrow back-alleys of Taiwan. Underneath the fairly mundane day-to-day activities that comprise the surface level plotline lays an elaborate tapestry of emotional entanglements as guilt, pain, love and indifference wrestle within everyone day and night. All matter of existential struggles present themselves throughout the languid days, every new development or occurrence is yet another thread added to the complexities of the interconnected web being woven until everything, inevitably, comes to a head, unraveling all around those involved.
This week’s Kickstart Sunday pick comes to us from director Christina Choe and her feature-length film Nancy. The film is about a woman named Nancy who lives her life as an imposter looking for love by lying to everyone around
This week’s Kickstart Sunday pick is not one, but two new short films from Calvin Lee Reeder, a writer-director who we’ve always been a huge fan of on the site, and the twisted mind behind films like The Oregonian and The Rambler.
This week’s Kickstart Sunday pick is the feature-length fantasy film The Dwarves of Demrel from writer-director Chris Raney. The film revolves around three dwarves and a human who are trapped in a mine after a collapse and must work together to get out
This week’s Kickstart Sunday pick comes to us from director Joe Talbot with his feature-length comedy The Last Black Man in San Francisco. The film is inspired by the life of Jimmie Falls, who plays the main character, a man
This week’s Kickstart Sunday is the documentary The Godfathers of Hardcore from director Ian McFarland. This feature not only outlines the history of the famed hardcore punk rock group Agnostic Front, but focuses on the lives of its two forming members Roger
