Blogcritics

DVD Review: Dance Party, USA

Bryan McKay — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:55:43 EDT

In this film, the awkward house party is pretty much a way of life.
Dance Party, USA is not the rollicking good time that the title might suggest. Now I understand that this might lead you to believe that I did not enjoy the film. That perhaps feeling duped by the film's seriously misleading title, I tossed the disc into the garbage, fuming over the film's preposterous lack of dance party fun. Okay, so...

Movie Review: The Wizard of Gore Screens at the Boston Underground Film Festival

Lisa McKay — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:07:20 EDT

�Did you feel something? � Anything?�
On March 20, the Boston Underground Film Festival kicked off its tenth annual proceedings with a screening of The Wizard of Gore from filmmaker Jeremy Kasten, a re-imagining of the 1970 film of the same name directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, the godfather of splatter films. An hallucinatory tale of murder and magic, the film contains enough gore...

Indie Film Lovers! Enter to Win the BC Magazine/Film Movement DVD Giveaway

Lisa McKay — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:04:50 EST

Film Movement would love to give five lucky winners a wonderful prize package of the best in independent film.
Lovers of independent film know that finding the best is often challenging. True independents and foreign films are often only accessible in big city markets and in many places are squeezed out of exhibition altogether in favor of the Hollywood blockbuster and the more commercially viable offerings. Together, rising marketing costs and a lack of...

Short Film Festival Tropfest@Tribeca to Screen on September 23 in New York

Lisa McKay — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:04:07 EDT

Sixteen short films from emerging filmmakers will make their debut under starry skies.
If you live in the New York City area, love film, and are looking for something worthwhile to do this weekend, you might want to check out Tropfest@Tribeca, an outdoor festival of short films that will be screening Sunday evening, September 23 at the World Financial Center Plaza. The festivities begin at 5:00 PM with live music, red carpet arrivals...

Movie Review: Things To Do

Lisa McKay — Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:20:11 EDT

A sweet film characterized by a solid and funny script and some good performances.
It's often said that young adults today experience a protracted adolescence, putting off major life events like marriage and family until well into their 30s and often returning to the family home while navigating the rocky shoals of real life. After all, home is, as Robert Frost wrote, "the place where, when you have to go there, they...