Posts Tagged ‘James Franco’
Film Review – Kin
Not every Science Fiction movie has to be a monumentally Earth shaking affair with all of humanity on the line. And not every movie has to be a tent pole to a multipart franchise that sprouts 14 sequels, 2 spinoffs, 3 prequels, and a TV…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Disaster Artist
As we exited the screening of The Disaster Artist, my friend asked “Would that movie make sense to anyone who hasn’t seen The Room?” Neither of us are qualified to answer this, having seen the so-perplexingly-bad-it’s-good opus countless times before, but it did stick with…
READ MOREFilm Review – Goat
Andrew Neel’s latest feature Goat is an archetypically American film that explores the psychology of toxic masculinity. This dark indie debuted at Sundance, where it was met with some early buzz for its lead performances by the up and coming Ben Schnetzer (Warcraft, Punk’s Dead: SLC…
READ MORESXSW Interview – Robert Duvall & Luciana Duvall – Wild Horses
Spencer interviews director/writer/actor Robert Duvall and actress Luciana Duvall from the crime drama Wild Horses at SXSW 2015.
READ MOREFilm Review – A Fuller Life
Not everybody lives a life with so much activity that it could make an epic story. From crime-beat reporter to World War II soldier to novelist and filmmaker, the aptly titled A Fuller Life tells the epic story of Samuel Fuller, reporter, writer, producer and…
READ MOREFilm Review – Third Person
I think a lot about what makes a film successful. I’m not talking about money; I’m talking about what makes a film work. There are a lot of crappy-ass movies that I really like and think work pretty well even though they aren’t great pieces…
READ MORESXSW Film Review – Surviving Cliffside
According to IMDb.com, Jon Matthews, the director of Surviving Cliffside (2013), has a unique story of his own. Growing up in West Virginia, Matthews initially studied law, and was practicing for nearly seven years. At the age of 31, he decided to change careers, enrolling…
READ MOREFilm Review – Interior. Leather Bar.
James Franco starts off his trite “documentary,” Interior. Leather Bar. waxing philosophical about the implications of the impending legalization of gay marriage. Within the first few seconds he’s already humble-bragged about his studies at Yale (cough, cough) and said that one of his professors there,…
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