By: debbie lynn elias It’s always a joy to be introduced to a “new” filmmaker, a “first time helmer”, and be able to join them in their cinematic journey, watching them grow, progress, develop voice and tone unique to them, and all the while develop personal relationships and friendships that
By: debbie lynn elias I admit it. I am in Joe Swanberg heaven right now. He acts, he writes, he directs, he produces. He delivers quirky, strange, even weird, fun and then on the turn of a dime, hits you hard with theme and messaging that makes you think. And
By: debbie lynn elias It’s gonna be tough to top the surprise elements and “cool factor” of YOU’RE NEXT. Not only filled with killers who are grammatically correct, YOU’RE NEXT is scary, jump out of your seat fun. For any horror afficionados, all one needs is to see the names
By: debbie lynn elias Australian Sharni Vinson is a face you recognize and a name that is poised to take center stage. Slowly building a career with films like Step-Up 3D, Blue Crush 2 and Bait starring fellow Aussie, Julian McMahon (“the reason I took that movie”), Vinson embraces the
By: debbie lynn elias Who hasn’t read “Catcher In The Rye”? Who in their youth (or even in the maturity of life) didn’t feel a connection with Holden Caulfield and by extension, his creator/ alter ego, J.D. Salinger? Who wasn’t, at some point, swept into the mystery of the oft-described
By: debbie elias Bringing the true story of the arrest and capture of serial killer Robert Hensen to life with THE FROZEN GROUND is first time feature director, Scott Walker. Structuring the film as a police procedural with the audience knowing early on who the killer is and then working
By: debbie lynn elias Loosely based on the Icelandic film Either Way, by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurosson, writer/director David Gordon Green puts his own patented spin on the story with PRINCE AVALANCHE. Starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch, Green employs the idea of “anti-casting”, with his two actors being “two people
By: debbie lynn elias THE GRANDMASTER is a ballet of elegant imagery that captures and evokes intense emotion thanks not only to tacitly powerful and methodical performances by Tony Leung and Ziyi Zhang, but also thanks to the meticulous visual design and fascinating story structure. Writer/Director Wong Kar Wai weaves
By: debbie lynn elias Like any good beer or alcoholic beverage, it’s all in the recipe. With DRINKING BUDDIES, take one part Ben Richardson’s cinematography (which, let’s face it, after the masterful Beasts of the Southern Wild, shows us a wider range of Richardson’s talent on a “closed”, varied and
Robert Hansen is currently serving 461 years in the Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward, Alaska. His crime? Hansen is one of the most notorious serial killers in United States history. Believed to have viciously raped and assaulted over 30 women and murdering 17 to 21 of them ages 16
