In December, Iranian filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof were sentenced to six years in prison, and Panahi was banned from making movies in and leaving Iran for 20 years. via Protest of Jafar Panahi’s imprisonment at Facets – Time Out Chicago. My first article for Time Out Chic[...]
Posts Tagged ‘film’
January 14th, 2011 - 2:35 pm § in Freelance Work
Protest of Jafar Panahi’s imprisonment at Facets – Time Out Chicago
December 29th, 2010 - 4:59 pm § in Freelance Work
Arts in Review: The Year in Good-Bad Movies – Arts Desk – Washington City Paper
It’s been a stellar year for bad movies. As in so-bad-they’re-good bad movies. The phenomenon of crap cinema, or rather the appreciation of crap cinema, has existed for decades, but 2010 saw a newfound interest in good-bad film. via Arts in Review: The Year in Good-Bad Movies – Art[...]
October 9th, 2010 - 12:44 pm § in Freelance Work
CIFF 2010: ‘The Robber’ (Benjamin Heisenberg, 2010) < PopMatters
The 46th Chicago International Film Festival is packed to the gills with films, fans and critics. For two weeks, many folks will be lining up to see some of the most anticipated cinematic releases of the year: there’s Black Swan, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, 127 Hours, Certified Co[...]
July 8th, 2010 - 12:08 pm § in Blog
B-Movie Interview with Cinefile
Cinefile‘s Nelson Carvajal read my Newcity piece on bad movies and thought I’d be a good interviewee for a video on cult cinema. Here’s the video: B-Movies & Cult Cinema from Cinefile.com on Vimeo.[...]
June 18th, 2010 - 2:01 am § in True/Slant
Bad movies that are hard to resist
This week, Newcity published an article I wrote on Chicago’s bad movie scene. “So-bad-it’s-good” movies have been getting a lot of press lately. There’s “Birdemic: Shock and Terror,” “The Room” and “Troll 2,” which is finding even mor[...]
November 5th, 2009 - 12:41 am § in True/Slant
Too coincidental to 'Say Anything'?
The Daily Swarm tossed a quick story about a “Mobler,” aka a Lloyd Dobler-themed flash mob that went down in NYC on Tuesday. Apparently Twentieth Century Fox put together a little gimmick to point people in the direction of the 20th Anniversary re-release of Cameron Crowe’s 80s tee[...]
October 19th, 2009 - 11:45 am § in True/Slant
Kanye West & Spike Jonze – We Were Once A Fairytale
Kanye West is back, back to being an artiste of merit, back from the depths of hell he was cast in after a disastrous VMAs appearance, back from South Park cracks and autotune-haters’ smacks. Or something like that. MTV reported that the short-film collaboration between Where The Wild Things A[...]
September 15th, 2009 - 2:14 am § in Perfect Lines
Body
Caught a preview screening of Jennifer’s Body. It wasn’t as awful as I’d read, but I can say that there’s going to be a cadre of folks who are interested in seeing the thing just for Megan Fox’s body. And they’ll be disappointed, because though some of the billboa[...]
March 26th, 2009 - 6:50 pm § in Perfect Lines
"Emo" Jacket
I stumbled upon this article on DVICE, thinking it would be some tepid piece on some bland fashion statement associated with emo. But I hardly expected this: “First there was smell-o-vision. Now we have the Emo Jacket with feel-o-vision. The folks at Philips Electronics are bringing out a jac[...]