In "Alistair 1918," which screened at this year's San Diego Comic-Con Independent Film Festival, a film crew encounters a homeless man claiming to have been transported to present-day Los Angeles from a WW I battlefield.
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Seattle International Film Festival Movie Review: ‘Ants on a Shrimp’
Have you traveled to award winning restaurant NOMA in Japan to have their roast duck or ants on a shrimp?
Read More »Anthem Film Festival: Laughing Though the Pain
Between films focusing on dysfunctional futures, police excesses, brain damage, political oppression, climate fraud, cancer, and unjust imprisonment, Anthem Film Festival director Jo Ann Skousen worked in a few films that inspired giggles and guffaws. Thank you, Jo Ann.
Read More »Anthem Film Festival: Lenny Bruce, Gilbert Gottfried, and Penn Jillette vs. the Outrage Mob in ‘Can We Take a Joke’
We are reaching peak crazy. There are two possible outcomes. We get trampled or the rest of us wake up and start fighting the people who are trying to stifle free speech.
Read More »Made in Hong Kong Film Festival: A Salute to Kara Wai
Day 2 of the Festival featured a special screening of the brilliant kung fu classic 'My Young Auntie.'
Read More »Sundance Film Festival Review: ‘Hooligan Sparrow,’ A Filmmaker Goes Undercover
Would you be incarcerated to fight injustice?
Read More »Blu-ray Review: The Coen Brothers’ Loopy ‘Hail, Caesar!’ Gives Old Hollywood the Old What For
Another winning addition to the rapidly growing arsenal of why the Coen brothers continue to be two of the most rightfully lauded filmmakers today.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘The Family Fang’ – Nicole Kidman, Jason Bateman & Christopher Walken
"The Family Fang is the best kind of art film - it has no pretensions to anything beyond telling its story and does so in the simplest and most straightforward manner it can.
Read More »Interview: Robert Mrazek on ‘The Congressman’ Starring Treat Williams (Part II)
The things I had the most fun with were writing the film and casting the film.
Read More »Interview: Writer Robert Mrazek on His Inspiring ‘The Congressman’ Starring Treat Williams, (Part I)
As a first time director I wasn’t frightened, but I was concerned about being able to work with my co-director and harness the set and create a good atmosphere on the set.
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