AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 2014 SCREENPLAY & TELEPLAY COMPETITION, FILM COMPETITION, AND AUDIENCE AWARDS AUSTIN, Texas— Nov. 4, 2014— Austin Film Festival (AFF) is pleased to announce its 2014 Screenplay & Teleplay Competition winners, Jury and Audience Award Winners in Film. Awards recipients received an array of cash prizes, travel expenses, industry recognition and… Continue reading Austin Film Festival 2014: Competition Winners
Author: Mark Saldana
Movie News: LONDON HAS FALLEN
“LONDON HAS FALLEN” BEGINS FILMING GERARD BUTLER, AARON ECKHART, MORGAN FREEMAN, ANGELA BASSETT, MELISSA LEO REPRISE STARRING ROLES LONDON – Principal photography has begun on Millennium Films’ and Focus Features’ London Has Fallen, the sequel to the worldwide smash hit “Olympus Has Fallen.” Gerard Butler again stars as Secret Service agent Mike Banning, alongside Aaron Eckhart as… Continue reading Movie News: LONDON HAS FALLEN
Review: INTERSTELLAR
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) Director Christopher Nolan, the man who reinvented the comic book hero movie, set his ambitions and sights higher with his follow up film to The Dark Knight Rises. After his brother Jonathan wrote the initial script, the two collaborated in further developing the story and screenplay… Continue reading Review: INTERSTELLAR
Spanish Review: NIGHTCRAWLER
Por Liz López Rating :A Para el viernes, 31 de octubre, conocido como Halloween en nuestro país, hay una cantidad de opciones para celebrar, incluso ver películas si es su gusto. Dentro de las producciones que se estrenan es el largometraje Nightcrawler en el cual protagoniza Jake Gyllenhaal como el personaje Lou Bloom, desempleado y… Continue reading Spanish Review: NIGHTCRAWLER
Fantastic Fest 2014 Review: NIGHTCRAWLER
By Mark Saldana Rating: 4 (Out of 4 Stars) 2014 has been quite the year for biting satires (Birdman) and films portraying sociopathic behavior (Gone Girl). Dan Gilroy’s Nighcrawler does an exceptional job of combining these two elements in an intense and disturbing crime drama setting. This closing night feature of this year’s Fantastic Fest… Continue reading Fantastic Fest 2014 Review: NIGHTCRAWLER
AFF 2014 Review: DAWN PATROL
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) Directed by Dan Petrie, Jr. (Toy Soldiers) and written by Rachel Long and Brian Pittman is an Austin Film Festival success story. Long and Pittman caught the attention of Dan Petrie, Jr. at the Driskill Hotel bar with their screenplay about a surfer-turned-Marine coping with the… Continue reading AFF 2014 Review: DAWN PATROL
AFF 2014 Interview: DAWN PATROL
By Mark Saldana At the 2008 Austin Film Festival and Conference, Rachel Long and Brian Pittman caught the attention of director Dan Petrie, Jr.(Toy Soldiers) with a screenplay for a film titled Stranded. It is now six years later and Stranded is now titled Dawn Patrol and is a marquee screening at this year’s Austin… Continue reading AFF 2014 Interview: DAWN PATROL
Movie News: MARVEL STUDIOS UNVEILS PHASE 3 OF MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE
This morning, during a special event at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige revealed the films that will make up Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring a mix of fan-favorite characters and several heroes who will be making their big-screen debuts.
AFF 2014 Review: THE HUMBLING
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Based on the novel by Philip Roth, Barry Levinson directs this often hilarious adapted screenplay by Hollywood legend Buck Henry. The film served as the opening night film of the 2014 Austin Film Festival and kick off the event with an entertaining and poignant movie that… Continue reading AFF 2014 Review: THE HUMBLING
AFF 2014 Interview: THE SUICIDE THEORY
By Mark Saldana It gave me great pleasure to speak with Dru Brown, director of The Suicide Theory, a film which will most definitely be one of my top favorite films of this year’s Austin Film Festival. The Australian native spoke with me briefly about his sophomore feature and how he discovered the incredible and… Continue reading AFF 2014 Interview: THE SUICIDE THEORY