Skip to main content

Posts

Blood Empires

2014 Directed By: Peter Rajesh Joachim Written By: Stevie Jay and Peter Rajesh Joachim Staring: Kassandra Santos, Stevie Jay, Amanda Barker | Blood Empires is an independently produced crime drama focused on street level gangsters, cops and the middle class families that are affected by having loved ones on both sides of the law. At its heart the film is about individuals grasping to hang on to there humanity while their professions strip it away. The film seems to ask if people who are involved in such brutal lives can find and maintain love.  Less can be more. If there is one thing I can say about the visual style of the film.... its in no way restrained. The film opens with a 3 or 4 minute slow motion sequence that leads to an execution in front of a church. The droning organ music and slow motion let us know where the scene is heading as soon as it starts but it takes a while to get there. We the audience are one step ahead of the film and when the inevitabl

Stanley Kubrick movie timeline

Stanley Kubrick is unquestionably one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. While other directors have larger filmography's few if any have a more influential or diverse catalog.  

Ghostbusters reunion for Entertainment Weekly

As a part of EW's upcoming reunion issue the cast of  Ghostbusters got back together for the photo above you can see the full EW article Here I don't know about you but this picture makes me even more apprehensive about the planned reboot sequel thing they have in the works. You cannot replace the chemistry of that original cast. 

Lemonade War

How does government regulate the economy? In an idyllic suburban neighborhood, Jerry has cornered the market with his lemonade business—until ten-year-old upstart Addie opens her own stand across the street. Competition equals war, and both side...

Furious 7 trailer

  Are these movies any good? I haven't seen any of them since the first one and when I saw it it didn't seem like the kind of film that would spawn 6 sequels. 

Supercut of cats in horror films

We've all seen it and more than likely at some point it made you jump... in honor of the feline misdirect in cinema here is a supercut of jump scares featuring cats

Wer

2013 Directed By William Brent Bell Starring AJ Cook, Sebastian RochΓ©, and Vik Sahay | How do you breath life into a character that has been on screen over 100 times? Considering that werewolf films date back to 1935 and we've had roughly 119 different werewolf films in that 79 year period it would seem nearly impossible to have a new take on the material. Well, Bell has done that with his film Wer . He has taken incredibly worn over source material and flipped it on its fuzzy head. So, how did he do this? He made it a procedural. The film follows a young defense attorney (Cook) who is defending a man (Roche) accused of a double murder. At first it appears the family may have been killed by a large unknown animal but as the case continues it becomes clear that there is far more to this case. This being a werewolf film we all have an idea of where this might be heading but the approach to the material is so fresh that you are hesitant to think of it in conventional terms