LA Film Fest 2014 is finally done and over with! It was nine days of just non-stop parties, screenings, and events! I didn't watch as many films as I intended to and even missed a few screenings on my list but nonetheless, I had an incredible time just soaking in the invigorating energy that emitted from film-lovers and the movies alike. In total, I saw 13 films, which is only half of what I usually see at fests but it's...
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Year: 2014
Director: Steve James
Cast: Roger Ebert, Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog
Country of Origin: USA
Rating: NR
Time: 115 mins
In this day and age where it seems like being a paid film critic is one of many dying breeds in this post-recession era, it is with honor to watch one the greatest professional film writer of our time, Roger Ebert's story come to life. In my quest on becoming a "serious" film critic,...
OMG!! What is this! I am been deprived of truly mind-imploding cinema as of lately! So you can understand my overly enthusiastic and giddy excitement when I heard that one of my favorite Spanish filmmakers Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel, Biutiful) is coming out with a new film called Birdman! Michael Keaton plays an actor who, sometime after achieving fame for playing a superhero, sets out to redeem himself...
The first teaser trailer to the much anticipated directorial debut by Justin Simien, Dear White People, has arrived everyone! I first heard about it when it won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough talent award at Sundance this past year. I'm so glad that Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions has acquired all the U.S. and Canadian rights to bring this very special film to us. The film is based on Simien's own...
I guarantee you that once I tell you the premise of Caterpillar, you will just roll your eyes and claim it as another cruel Japanese film that probably has Takashi Miike's sick, twisted, and violent humor written all over it. Caterpillar is about a wife (Shinobu Terajima) who finds her husband (Keigo Kasuya) returning from the Sino-Japanese war as a war hero but with a horribly mutilated body in which he is reduced to a...
Jenny Slate is baaaaaaack! I had not known who Jenny Slate really was before being introduced to her painstakingly hilarious character Mona-Lisa Saperstein on Parks and Rec. Had I known she was the voice is the DARNEST CUTEST animated short, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On and been on SNL, I would've, would've, would have.... done nothing. My motto is better late than never. AMIRIGHT?! After her contract was not renewed due...
The adaptation of John Green's wildly successful YA novel, The Fault in Our Stars is finally out and it does not disappoint! If you are a fan, obviously you have watched this. What I should've done was watch the movie first before I read it because hearing the novel (via audible) muddled my judgement of if the film is as great as a stand alone film. So even though my judgement might be little biased and faulty, let me assure...
Michel Gondry's Mood Indigo is one of the film I've been anticipating to make it to the U.S. market. Good thing Drafthouse Films acquired it and will be releasing it in July! If it has Gondry's name + romantic theme, I am LIT.ER.ALLY all over that like peanut butter on jelly! The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is hands down one of my favorite films ever! With it's moody cinematography, innovative mis-en-scene, mind...
The X-Men are baaaaacccckk! We get to see old faces: Wolverine, Storm, Kitty Pryde and some new faces: Beast, Blink, Quicksilver, and much much more! X-Men: Days of Future Past is the 7th installment to the long running X-Men franchise including all the Wolverine movies. I don't know about you but I am starting to feel the fatigue of all these Superhero movies. The millennium will be known as the era of outcasted people...
It's that time again! It's officially summer and that means Los Angeles Film Festival has arrived! There are tons of films I want to see this year and I'm sure it'll be another insane year of back to back screenings of the best of what Los Angeles has to offer. It's going to be an intense 9 days hence why, I need to prepare myself nnneoow! Like doing some jumping jacks, bringing back up battery, and finding a diaper (oking but...
