Uh-oh, an indie movie in black and white? Loaded with homoeroticism and painfully bad narration? Indie rock on the soundtrack? Oh no, is this England’s answer to Clerks all these years later? Why did it take so long? Why isn’t it funny? Why is it trying so hard?
I’ve suffered through a lot of indie movies. Some are better than others. Some are just plain nightmarish. More often than not, I feel like an indie movie that tries to ape Kevin Smith in 2013 is facing an uphill battle. Sometimes, it works, which is the case with James Christopher or someone who’s got a ton of heart behind their material.
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I’ve suffered through a lot of indie movies. Some are better than others. Some are just plain nightmarish. More often than not, I feel like an indie movie that tries to ape Kevin Smith in 2013 is facing an uphill battle. Sometimes, it works, which is the case with James Christopher or someone who’s got a ton of heart behind their material.
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- 1/15/2014
- by Robert Ottone
- JustPressPlay.net
Highlights of the Austin Film Festival 2013 lineup, announced Tuesday, include Cannes Grand Prix winner Inside Llewyn Davis from former Austinites Joel and Ethan Coen, Toronto Iff favorite 12 Years a Slave, and the star-studded ensemble August: Osage County. The full lineup consists of over 70 features and over 100 short films, including several Us and world premieres.
Other eye-catchers selected for the 20th anniversary lineup include Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (starring Idris Elba as Nelson Mandela), Philomena (Stephen Frears' latest), a documentary directed by Whoopi Goldberg (HBO's Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley), and the previously announced Nebraska from Alexander Payne.
Films are presented in traditional categories like Marquee Screenings, Documentary Features, Comedy Vanguard and Dark Matters, and this year reveals a couple of new sections: Heart of Film and Write/Rec, which both highlight the best in low budget filmmaking and "out of competition jewels." (We were excited to see that...
Other eye-catchers selected for the 20th anniversary lineup include Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (starring Idris Elba as Nelson Mandela), Philomena (Stephen Frears' latest), a documentary directed by Whoopi Goldberg (HBO's Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley), and the previously announced Nebraska from Alexander Payne.
Films are presented in traditional categories like Marquee Screenings, Documentary Features, Comedy Vanguard and Dark Matters, and this year reveals a couple of new sections: Heart of Film and Write/Rec, which both highlight the best in low budget filmmaking and "out of competition jewels." (We were excited to see that...
- 9/18/2013
- by Caitlin Moore
- Slackerwood
Ariel Winter’s ongoing family feud between the Modern Family star and her mother has now gotten even bigger, with her older brother filing for guardianship of the teenage actress. According to court docs filed in Los Angeles Aug. 15 and obtained by Celebuzz, James Christopher Workman listed multiple reasons for his request, specifically citing Ariel’s sister Shanelle...Read more»...
- 8/16/2013
- by Andrea Simpson
- Celebuzz.com
James Christopher's latest is a romantic comedy full of funny moments, solid one-liners and genuine heart. In an attempt to win the object of his affection over, Nick must go through his lineup of previous women and get a grasp on the concept of relationships and love.
"Peter Pan with a hard-on," is an applicable term for Nick, who's a terminal ladies' man. One-night stands, short relationships and general douchebaggery is how Nick makes his way through life, but like all good things, it's gotta' come to a close at some point, right? Nick's essentially the perfect asshole. He's Glen Gulia from The Wedding Singer meets Sack Lodge from Wedding Crashers. He's the reason nice guys can't find the nice girls, because they're too busy being used and abused by dudes like Nick.
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"Peter Pan with a hard-on," is an applicable term for Nick, who's a terminal ladies' man. One-night stands, short relationships and general douchebaggery is how Nick makes his way through life, but like all good things, it's gotta' come to a close at some point, right? Nick's essentially the perfect asshole. He's Glen Gulia from The Wedding Singer meets Sack Lodge from Wedding Crashers. He's the reason nice guys can't find the nice girls, because they're too busy being used and abused by dudes like Nick.
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- 6/23/2013
- by Robert Ottone
- JustPressPlay.net
By James Christopher and Terissa Kelton
[Editor's Note: James Christopher and Terissa Kelton of Twitchy Dolphin Flix spent the weekend at Texas Frightmare Weekend in Dallas, and are sending us dispatches, photos and other interesting material.]
On the first day of the blood-and-gore covered Texas Frightmare Weekend, we ran into a unlikely attendee of the Dallas genre fest -- iconic Texas actor Barry Corbin. Barry greeted us with the type of Texas welcome one might expect through the introductions we as an audience have had over a decades-long film career (War Games, Lonesome Dove). He welcomed us with a firm handshake and tip of his hat to Terissa.
He spoke about being honored by the Austin Film Society this year and how much it meant to him. Barry also let us in on what he's got going on now. He's still working, flying out to La on a regular basis. He just wrapped ten episodes on the new Charlie Sheen show Anger Management. Barry chuckled when asked how Charlie was doing. Apparently, Charlie is still winning. So is Barry.
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[Editor's Note: James Christopher and Terissa Kelton of Twitchy Dolphin Flix spent the weekend at Texas Frightmare Weekend in Dallas, and are sending us dispatches, photos and other interesting material.]
On the first day of the blood-and-gore covered Texas Frightmare Weekend, we ran into a unlikely attendee of the Dallas genre fest -- iconic Texas actor Barry Corbin. Barry greeted us with the type of Texas welcome one might expect through the introductions we as an audience have had over a decades-long film career (War Games, Lonesome Dove). He welcomed us with a firm handshake and tip of his hat to Terissa.
He spoke about being honored by the Austin Film Society this year and how much it meant to him. Barry also let us in on what he's got going on now. He's still working, flying out to La on a regular basis. He just wrapped ten episodes on the new Charlie Sheen show Anger Management. Barry chuckled when asked how Charlie was doing. Apparently, Charlie is still winning. So is Barry.
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- 5/7/2012
- by Contributors
- Slackerwood
Zombie Movie Poster
The San Antonio Horrific Film Festival begins August 25th and the event creators, Sergio Guerra and George L. Ortiz, have announced the first days movie lineup (Friday, August 27th). To show on the big screen are The House of the Demon, Zombie Movie, Clemency, and Werebitches. A short synopsis for each film is located below and for those fans in the great state of Texas check out Joseph Albanese's horror short Clemency. This film has been reviewed (here), but have a look at each of the films below. Also, check out the film festival's site, which shows many of the horror celebrities in attendance.
Event Showing: August 25th to the 29th.
The House of the Demon (12:00pm)
Director: George L. Ortiz.
Writer: Michael Wallace.
The synopsis:
"It's Halloween--the biggest party night of the year--and a group of college friends won't let the university's new ban on parties spoil their plans.
The San Antonio Horrific Film Festival begins August 25th and the event creators, Sergio Guerra and George L. Ortiz, have announced the first days movie lineup (Friday, August 27th). To show on the big screen are The House of the Demon, Zombie Movie, Clemency, and Werebitches. A short synopsis for each film is located below and for those fans in the great state of Texas check out Joseph Albanese's horror short Clemency. This film has been reviewed (here), but have a look at each of the films below. Also, check out the film festival's site, which shows many of the horror celebrities in attendance.
Event Showing: August 25th to the 29th.
The House of the Demon (12:00pm)
Director: George L. Ortiz.
Writer: Michael Wallace.
The synopsis:
"It's Halloween--the biggest party night of the year--and a group of college friends won't let the university's new ban on parties spoil their plans.
- 6/28/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Ross Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Rian Johnson struck critical gold with Brick, but where does this follow-up leave his career?
The basics
Rian Johnson's second film is the labyrinthine fable of two con artist brothers who set out to cheat a lonely widow out of her money. Shot on location in Montenegro, Greece and Romania, Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo feature as the sibling shysters, while Rachel Weisz is their ditsy mark. Yet there's something a little too considered, not to mention clumsy, about the film's realisation. The brothers' confidence tricks are intelligently thought out, and the film represents an intriguing attempt to reimagine the heist movie, but it's all rather too clever – not to mention confusing – for its own good.
The stakes
Johnson debuted five years ago with the startling thriller Brick, a noirish exercise set among high school teenagers which brought Joseph Gordon-Levitt to many people's attention and was extremely well-received. The...
The basics
Rian Johnson's second film is the labyrinthine fable of two con artist brothers who set out to cheat a lonely widow out of her money. Shot on location in Montenegro, Greece and Romania, Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo feature as the sibling shysters, while Rachel Weisz is their ditsy mark. Yet there's something a little too considered, not to mention clumsy, about the film's realisation. The brothers' confidence tricks are intelligently thought out, and the film represents an intriguing attempt to reimagine the heist movie, but it's all rather too clever – not to mention confusing – for its own good.
The stakes
Johnson debuted five years ago with the startling thriller Brick, a noirish exercise set among high school teenagers which brought Joseph Gordon-Levitt to many people's attention and was extremely well-received. The...
- 6/7/2010
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
The Times has appointed two well-known, lively writers to be its new cinema critic and new theatre critic. But neither of them know much about their subjects
Why is Mike Atherton cricket correspondent of the Times? Because he knows a lot about cricket. Why are Rachel Campbell-Johnston and Debra Craine the Thunderer's art and ballet critics respectively? Same answer. You don't need to ask why Gordon Ramsay writes a cookery column on Saturdays. But then there's the Kate and Libby conundrum.
Libby Purves is the new drama critic of the Times (replacing Benedict Nightingale). And Kate Muir, replacing nobody very evident after James Christopher's earlier departure, is the paper's new film critic. Both of them are shrewd, sprightly, culture-aware columnists. But neither of them have any great track record in their newly designated subjects. Indeed, Ms Muir's movie canon seems to begin, and end, at taking her six-year-old son to a Harry Potter premiere.
Why is Mike Atherton cricket correspondent of the Times? Because he knows a lot about cricket. Why are Rachel Campbell-Johnston and Debra Craine the Thunderer's art and ballet critics respectively? Same answer. You don't need to ask why Gordon Ramsay writes a cookery column on Saturdays. But then there's the Kate and Libby conundrum.
Libby Purves is the new drama critic of the Times (replacing Benedict Nightingale). And Kate Muir, replacing nobody very evident after James Christopher's earlier departure, is the paper's new film critic. Both of them are shrewd, sprightly, culture-aware columnists. But neither of them have any great track record in their newly designated subjects. Indeed, Ms Muir's movie canon seems to begin, and end, at taking her six-year-old son to a Harry Potter premiere.
- 2/8/2010
- by Peter Preston
- The Guardian - Film News
Jen Lowery/Startraks
It’s a boy for General Hospital star Tyler Christopher and wife Brienne Pedigo. The couple — who last week celebrated their first wedding anniversary — welcomed Greysun James Christopher on Saturday, two days after his Oct. 1 due date; Baby boy weighed in at 7 lbs., 11 oz., Tyler twittered.
Several days before the birth Tyler wrote that he was “in full baby mode” already, adding that although Greysun had not yet arrived “u would think so with the chaos at my house.” By Saturday afternoon the effects of all that chaos appeared to be taking a toll on the proud new papa,...
It’s a boy for General Hospital star Tyler Christopher and wife Brienne Pedigo. The couple — who last week celebrated their first wedding anniversary — welcomed Greysun James Christopher on Saturday, two days after his Oct. 1 due date; Baby boy weighed in at 7 lbs., 11 oz., Tyler twittered.
Several days before the birth Tyler wrote that he was “in full baby mode” already, adding that although Greysun had not yet arrived “u would think so with the chaos at my house.” By Saturday afternoon the effects of all that chaos appeared to be taking a toll on the proud new papa,...
- 10/5/2009
- by Missy
- People - CelebrityBabies
Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian: "Heath Ledger takes a poignant final bow in Terry Gilliam’s loopy, sweet-natured but madly self-indulgent fantasia The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, showing here at the Cannes film festival out of competition. Halfway through shooting, Ledger had made a desperately sad early exit, so the director ingeniously re-invented his character as a series of personae. Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp gamely stepped into the breach. … "When Gilliam shoots off into his surreal wonderland, his film has a kind of helium-filled jollity and spectacle. … But the film’s convoluted curlicues are tiring, insisting too loudly on how ‘imaginative’ everything is. And when it descends into the real world – Lucy out of the sky without diamonds, as it were – the film can frankly be a bit ho-hum, with some very broad acting from the bit-part crowd players." *** James Christopher in The [London] Times: "In the scenes...
- 5/22/2009
- by Massimo David
- Alt Film Guide
Heath Ledger's final film has been given a lukewarm reception at the Cannes Film Festival - and many critics were shocked to see his character hanging from a London bridge with a rope around his neck in his first scene.
Ledger died in January, 2008 before he completed work on Terry Gilliam's fantasy film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus; Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepped in to complete his part in the movie.
And though film reviewers have been kind to the late actor in his final role, they've not been so taken by Gilliam or his film, which premiered at Cannes this week (beg18May09).
Britain's TimesOnline critic James Christopher writes, "Ledger is a marvel to watch," but insists the plot of the film is "slim, incomprehensible, and desperately unconvincing".
He goes on to suggest the film "could have benefited with a lot more hard story and a lot less whimsy".
And Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw insists the film is "amiable" but "could be for fans only," adding "the film's convoluted curlicues are tiring, insisting too loudly on how 'imaginative' everything is".
Ledger died in January, 2008 before he completed work on Terry Gilliam's fantasy film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus; Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepped in to complete his part in the movie.
And though film reviewers have been kind to the late actor in his final role, they've not been so taken by Gilliam or his film, which premiered at Cannes this week (beg18May09).
Britain's TimesOnline critic James Christopher writes, "Ledger is a marvel to watch," but insists the plot of the film is "slim, incomprehensible, and desperately unconvincing".
He goes on to suggest the film "could have benefited with a lot more hard story and a lot less whimsy".
And Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw insists the film is "amiable" but "could be for fans only," adding "the film's convoluted curlicues are tiring, insisting too loudly on how 'imaginative' everything is".
- 5/22/2009
- WENN
Hot on the heels of the 66th Golden Globe Awards celebration last Sunday, January 11, British newspaper Evening Standard announced the nominations of the 2009 Evening Standard British Film Awards. On Tuesday, January 13, it was made public that "Frost/Nixon", "Slumdog Millionaire", "Hunger" and "The Reader" are among those vying for the awards.
"Frost/Nixon" and "Hunger" were both up for the Best Film title along with Joanna Hogg-directed "Unrelated". The two had also secured a nod for Best Actor category, Michael Sheen for "Frost/Nixon" and Michael Fassbender for "Hunger". "Frost/Nixon", in addition, had collected a Best Screenplay gong for its scribbler Peter Morgan, while "Hunger" gave its editor Joe Walker a chance to win an award in the Technical Achievement field.
"Slumdog" and "The Reader", on the other hand, were competing against each other and against "Garage" for the Best Director prize. Other than that, "Slumdog" also got two other counts,...
"Frost/Nixon" and "Hunger" were both up for the Best Film title along with Joanna Hogg-directed "Unrelated". The two had also secured a nod for Best Actor category, Michael Sheen for "Frost/Nixon" and Michael Fassbender for "Hunger". "Frost/Nixon", in addition, had collected a Best Screenplay gong for its scribbler Peter Morgan, while "Hunger" gave its editor Joe Walker a chance to win an award in the Technical Achievement field.
"Slumdog" and "The Reader", on the other hand, were competing against each other and against "Garage" for the Best Director prize. Other than that, "Slumdog" also got two other counts,...
- 1/14/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
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