By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) This documentary by directors Robert Campos and Donna LoCicero examines the San Francisco comedy club scene during the 1980s and some of the comedians who have gone on to greater success. The late Robin Williams, Dana Carvey, and Rob Schneider, emerged from the club scene there… Continue reading AFF 2014 Review: 3 STILL STANDING
Category: Reviews
Review: BIG HERO 6
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A highly intelligent teenager suffers a major loss and hopes to right this wrong. He uses his intelligence towards defeating his enemy and assembles a rag-tag team of heroes to accomplish this goal. This simplified plot synopsis for Big Hero… Continue reading Review: BIG HERO 6
Review: BIG HERO 6
By Laurie Coker Rating: B+ With Big Hero 6, Disney gives us creative, loving characters, who don’t have the broad shoulders, perfects pecs and whittled waistlines of typical Disney heroes. Instead we get Baymax a puffy, marshmallowy robot with a knack for subtle wit and making people feel better. Wicked animation more than makes up… Continue reading Review: BIG HERO 6
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
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
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