By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) From Michael Moore, the controversial award-winning documentary filmmaker behind Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, comes this powerful, ambitious, but overstuffed documentary which takes on modern America and President Donald Trump. Though the film does pack some heavy emotional punches, Moore tries to accomplish too much… Continue reading Review: FAHRENHEIT 11/9
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Review: LIFE ITSELF
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) After watching this film, it is so obvious that writer/director Dan Fogelman (This Is Us) absolutely adores the movie Pulp Fiction. The filmmaker structures his film quite similarly to the way that Quentin Tarantino sets up his movie, with three main intertwined stories with characters connected… Continue reading Review: LIFE ITSELF
Fantastic Fest 2018 News: “Luz” Acquired by Screen Media Ahead of US Premiere in Austin
By Liz Lopez “Luz” made its North American bow at Fantasia Film Festival, and will have its US premiere at Fantastic Fest this week. The film also played at Berlin International Film Festival earlier in the year and will screen as a part of the Sitges Film Festival next month. Screen Media announced via a… Continue reading Fantastic Fest 2018 News: “Luz” Acquired by Screen Media Ahead of US Premiere in Austin
Austin Film Festival 2018: 2nd Film Wave Announcement
AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL CONFIRMS JASON REITMAN’S THE FRONT RUNNER AS CLOSING NIGHT FILM, ANNOUNCES SECOND WAVE OF FILMS FOR 25TH ANNIVERSARY LINE-UP AFF ALSO HIGHLIGHTS EMERGING FEMALE VOICES COMING THROUGH ITS SHORT FILM COMPETITION Source: AFF Austin Film Festival (AFF), the premier film festival recognizing writers’ and filmmakers’ contributions to film, television, and new media, announced today… Continue reading Austin Film Festival 2018: 2nd Film Wave Announcement
Review/Interview: THE PREDATOR
By Liz Lopez Rating: B Some people that enter the movie theater to see the “new” feature film, “The Predator,” were likely not born before the original “Predator” 1987 film hit theaters. It starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and his mission takes place in Central America. When filmmaker Shane Black was an actor in the mid -1980s,… Continue reading Review/Interview: THE PREDATOR
Review: A SIMPLE FAVOR
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Director Paul Feig, the comedic mind behind TV’s Freaks and Geeks and films Bridesmaids and Spy, makes his first entry in the mystery thriller genre and the results are fantastic. With A Simple Favor, Feig brings his comic talents to a story that even Hitchcock would… Continue reading Review: A SIMPLE FAVOR
Review: WHITE BOY RICK
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) During the 1980s Detroit teen Richard Wershe, Jr. not only became a street hustler and drug dealer, he became the youngest FBI informant, all before the age of 16. A new crime drama by director Yann Demange recreates these amazing events of Wershe’s life. Though the… Continue reading Review: WHITE BOY RICK
Fantastic Fest 2018 News: Final Wave of Programming Announcement
FANTASTIC FEST’S FINAL WAVE OF PROGRAMMING INCLUDES BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE AS CLOSING NIGHT FILM, THE US PREMIERES OF MID90S AND UNDER THE SILVER LAKE, AND A HALLOWEEN-THEMED OPENING NIGHT PARTY Plus Walking Dead star Steven Yeun in attendance for BURNING, the World Premiere of the new Nicolas Cage & Franka Potente movie BETWEEN WORLDS, Karyn Kusama’s DESTROYER, Terry Gilliam’s THE… Continue reading Fantastic Fest 2018 News: Final Wave of Programming Announcement
Critica De Cine: THE WIFE
Por Liz Lopez Rating: B+ Para los fans de cine del género con temas más maduros y de la vida matrimonial, junto con los retos de lo mismo además de los niños, el largometraje “The Wife” seguramente será la cinta principal para elegir en el salón de cine esta semana. Dirigida por Björn Runge, basado… Continue reading Critica De Cine: THE WIFE
Critica De Cine: PEPPERMINT
Por Liz Lopez Rating: B-/C+ Si los fans recuerdan la película “Taken” de hace diez años, bajo la dirección del director Pierre Morel (“District B13”, “The Gunman”), pienso que le va a gustar el nuevo largometraje “Peppermint” que él dirige basado en el guion escrito por Chad St. John (“London has Fallen”). Lo que sobresale… Continue reading Critica De Cine: PEPPERMINT