Recent Movies Posts
Brain Dead
After a grueling work week, I've got nothing to say except that The Box is suprisingly loopy (in a good way), and both games featured in this week's Sandbox column… Read more »
Adventureland (2009): C+
Adventureland has a potent sense of time (1987), place (suburbia) and setting (a local amusement park, the summer after college graduation). What writer/director Greg Mottola’s semi-autobiographical follow-up to Superbad is… Read more »
Sheffield Doc/Fest: A Time Comes - The Story of the Kingsnorth Six
Screening today and Saturday at the festival with Shelter in Place is Nick Broomfield’s new film A Time Comes - The Story of the Kingsnorth Six In this nineteen minute… Read more »
Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: P-Star Rising
The Documentary Blog’s Sheffield Doc/Fest coverage comes to us thanks to our new UK correspondent Charlotte Cook. On paper P-Star Rising raises certain expectations. It is a story about a… Read more »
Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Presumed Guilty
The Documentary Blog’s Sheffield Doc/Fest coverage comes to us thanks to our new UK correspondent Charlotte Cook. Presumed Guilty is the new film from Geoffrey Smith who made last year’s… Read more »
By The People: The Election Of Barack Obama Airs Tonight on HBO
Just a quick reminder that the documentary By The People: The Election Of Barack Obama will premiere tonight on HBO at 9 pm EST. I’m not too sure what to… Read more »
AFM 09: The Hills Are Hysterical - And Soaked With Blood - In The TUCKER AND DALE VS EVIL Promo!
Ladies and gentlemen, I hereby take this opportunity to present my belief that Alan Tudyk is one of the most under-used actors of his generation. I'm not sure where I… Read more »
Fresh Images From Sylvain Chomet's THE ILLUSIONIST
In the world of international animation it is hard to think of anyone whose reputation has grown larger with a single project than Sylvain Chomet's. Chomet burst on to the… Read more »
Directors We Love: Alfred Hitchcock
This is a no-brainer, right? Everyone loves Hitchcock. But it was not always so. The great director, whose North by Northwest comes out on a new, 50th Anniversary DVD and… Read more »
