In celebration of the show’s 40th anniversary, the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival will premiere Live From New York!, a documentary about Saturday Night Live, on its opening night.
Director Bao Nguyen explores the cultural icon that is SNL, as well as its history,
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Before watching Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clemont’s latest, What We Do in the Shadows, I thought that the concept of the mockumentary was dead. Too often are we seeing this storytelling device being used in horror films, comedies, and even action flicks. Shadows breathes from much needed undead life back into the style however, with a clever and uproariously funny film about vampire flat mates.
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I’ll likely piss off some readers, especially horror fans, when I say the slasher genre has pretty much been dead for the last two decades. It has been one of the weakest and most under-utilized subgenres of horror film lore, and looking back, it’s been nothing more than remakes, sequels to remakes and cookie-cutter, cliché-riddled schlock.
Dark Sky Films has released a new trailer for the upcoming horror movie We Are Still Here, which is set to have its world premiere at this year’s SXSW in Austin next month. The film is written and directed by Ted Geoghegan, and
One of the crazier looking films to screen during the midnighters programming at this year’s SXSW is Jason Lei Howden‘s Deathgasm, which looks to contain just the right amount of comedy and over the top gore. The film revolves around two friends who
One of my favorite programs of SXSW has always been the midnighters lineup, and this year’s batch of genre flicks looks great as always, with highlights including Rodney Ascher‘s (Room 237) latest, The Nightmare, as well as Turbo Kid from the RKSS Collective.
A new trailer has been released for Hal Hartley‘s upcoming Ned Rifle, the final entry in his Henry Fool trilogy. The film stars Aubrey Plaza, Parker Posey, Liam Aiken, James Urbaniak, Martin Donovan, and Thomas Jay Ryan, and revolves around Aiken’s character of
Crystal Moselle‘s film The Wolfpack just won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and the subjects of the film, The Angulo Brothers, prepared a thank you for the festival by recreating past winners in their own unique
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Patrick Ryan’s feature debut, Darkness on the Edge of Town, is a gritty Irish tale of revenge, wrought with chaos and violence. The dreary fog-soaked hills of Ireland become the perfect backdrop for this story, which revolves around two best friends avenging the murder of an estranged sister. Though it feels as if no one in this film has a soul, Ryan makes up for it by employing some great visuals and lighting, which, along with and interesting narrative structure, make this film worth a look.
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One of the most impressive things about Britni West’s Tired Moonlight is that this is a debut film that she wrote, directed, produced and edited – no small feat for a first timer, especially when the end product looks this good.
This portrait of a small town in Montana plays out much like similar slice-of-life docu-dramas, such as Gummo and George Washington, but its realism makes it feel much more like actual documentaries, such as Tchoupitoulas or Bombay Beach. Finding similarities between these films doesn’t mean that there isn’t a hefty amount of originality in Tired Moonlight, however, as West asserts her role as a creative force, melding a complex group of characters with a middle-America backdrop that could easily be any rural town in this country.
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Across the Sea follows Damla (Damla Sönmez) and her American husband, Kevin (Jacob Fishel), as they visit Damla’s family home in Turkey, a beautiful seaside paradise where everyone seems to know everyone else, where small fishing boats bob in the shallow waters and children squeal with joy along the water line, and where there is a dark secret yet to be revealed to its inhabitants.
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Although it was the second country to ever claim independence, Haiti has had a troubled past, with ruthless dictators coming into power, militaristic coups and near-constant political strife. In 2010, a massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake, the largest to ever occur in the country, hit Port-Au-Prince, leaving an estimated 220,000 people dead, 300,000 injured, and 2.3 million without homes. In the aftermath, the country was left devastated and demanded new leadership in its upcoming presidential election.
The 2015 Sundance Film Festival is coming to a close and with that comes the announcement of this year’s award winners. The U.S. Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Feature and the Audience Award for U.S. Dramatic Feature went to Alfonso Gomez-Rejon‘s Me & Earl & the
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Strange things have been happening in and around the two Helen’s hometown in Attieh and Garcia's H.; everything is leaking, gravity is acting without any rhyme or reason and there may even be a black stallion roaming around the streets of Troy. The scope of these peculiar instances vary, ranging from fleeting moments of slight strangeness to the more panic-inducing occurrences of missing people and wall staring.
The Orchard announced today that they have picked up the North American rights to Joe Swanberg‘s latest, Digging for Fire, which just had its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film features a fantastic cast comprised of Jake Johnson (who
The Audience, Jury, and Sponsored award winners of this year’s Slamdance Film Festival have been announced, with Nisan Dağ & Esra Saydam’s Across the Sea winning the Audience Award for Narrative Feature and a Jury Honorable Mention for Narrative Feature. Sweet Micky For President was
