I just survived the Fantastic Fest 2013 closing night party. I’ll get around to movie reviews later. For now, I have a deep need for you to see what I saw last night. I have a new truism for life: stuntmen know how to party.
Yesterday was crazy at Fantastic Fest. I wound up partnered with Cole Bradley and the guys who made a short film named “The Last Video Store” for Geeks Who Drink trivia, and we wound up winning the whole shebang. (Free beers! Yay!) The final event of the day was Karaoke …
The film festival is starting to get surreal. For example, yesterday I had a conversation with Harry Knowles about what it would take to shove mud up our respective asses (though, in our defense, this conversation was completely relevant to the subject of film). But the movies keep on falling …
I don’t actually know what day of the week it is anymore. All I know is that I watched a lot of movies (21 as of this writing) and I have a lot more ahead of me. When I drove Jerry Belich to the airport this morning and turned on …
The Fantastic Fatigue is now setting in. I even skipped the earliest movie slot in the day. (In my defense, I used that time to have an amazing brunch with my friends Cargill and Jessica.) However, I am soldiering on, and being rewarded with great movies. Also, I met Thomas …
Out of my five picks from yesterday, all five were gems. Behold… JOURNEY TO THE WEST: CONQUERING THE DEMONS Dir. Stephen Chow Stephen Chow’s first film in seven years is a hoot and a half, and it is certainly up to the caliber of previous Chow favorites like Kung Fu …
I’ll be keeping these short, because I’m writing on my iPhone. Hooray for having a broken laptop! EEGA Dirs. S.S. Rajamouli, J.V.V. Sathyanarayana I’m a sucker for crazy-ass Bollywood movies, and Eega is definitely a crazy-ass Bollywood movie. It’s the tale if a murdered man who returns to life as …
It’s that time of year again, where I head to Austin, TX and spend a week pouring movies into my eyes. Fantastic Fest is a tremendously fun and insane film festival. It focuses on genre film from around the world, often getting fun crime, horror, and sci-fi films that never …
This weekend, I’ll be heading to my dad’s lake cabin for the weekend. I spent many weekends of my childhood in this little cabin, which also hosted grandparents, uncles, aunts, and a gaggle of young cousins. One fine summer weekend, I was reading on a couch, facing a bank of …
Today’s social media networks are bubbling with the news that Worldcon has scheduled a screening of Song of the South, as part of a program of anime and animation not easily found via DVD or Netflix. Many people are debating whether this is a good idea or not. The reason …
