Because Paranormal Activity 3 plays mainly on what we can’t see, your eyes are constantly darting around the camera frame, looking for something strange.
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2011
‘The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael’ collects some of the impassioned New Yorker critic’s best writing — essay-length diatribes on specific movies and trends.
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If you want a toe-tapping, boot-scooting Saturday night or Sunday afternoon fun–‘Footloose’ 2011 is your movie. Sorry, Kevin Bacon, but it’s the truth.
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Great care has been taken to not fill ‘The Thing’ remake/prequel thingie full of lame, jittery camera angles and a faster-than-necessary pace, which is nice. But is it too generic?
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In The Scene-Stealers Podcast #37, Trevan and Eric catch up after two weeks off by talking about “Moneyball,” “50/50,” “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” and “Real Steel.”
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If you need a solid political thriller, with acceptably mediocre direction and some great acting, then ‘The Ides of March’ should satisfy.
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George Hickman’s list of the 10 most badass movies that played at 2011’s Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX proves that some great movies can be found underground.
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Movie review of “50/50,” where Seth Rogen plays the best friend of Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
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You’ve seen this story before, but never quite like this: A group of college kids on a road trip run into a couple of unsavory types in the back woods and terror and mayhem ensues. So what makes Tucker & Dale vs. Evil so different? The script by Morgan Jurgenson and Eli Craig turns the overused premise sideways and provides one […]
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I have a simple rule of thumb when it comes to discussing and analyzing movies about cancer. Does the film work, is it compelling, if you replace cancer with something else? If the characters still hold your interest, and the situations they find themselves in move us more deeply into the story without the big […]
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While I certainly appreciate the first two “Paranormal Activity” films, I was worried that they’d be unable to sustain a third installment. Based on the cut of the film presented as a secret screening at Fantastic Fest, I was right to worry. The way I see it, these are the cardinal sins of found footage […]
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Last night at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, TX, Fantastic Fest Creative Director Tim League hosted the 2011 Fantastic Awards. From the FF2011 site: Every winner had to chug a Shiner out of their mug-shaped award or select a proxy-drinker. Beer was drunk, beer was spilled, beer was poured. Also: artistry in independent and genre […]
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Fantastic Fest 2011 is under way, and contributor George Hickman is filing his reports each day as the festival and its movie events continue. Here are a couple condensed-reviews of new films at Fantastic Fest this year. We Need to Talk About Kevin (solid rock fist up) “We Need to Talk About Kevin” is the […]
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Blu-ray/DVD Review: Bridesmaids and Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
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Eric Melin from KTKA and KSNT reviews Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill in “Moneyball”
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