Year: 2014
Director: J.C. Chandor
Writer: J.C. Chandor
Cinematographer: Bradford Young
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, Elyes Gabel
Country of Origin: U.S.
Rating: N/A
Time: 125 min.
Kristen Sales (Sales on Film) and I went to AFI FEST this past month and we were able to catch some of the same films together and so we decided to do the natural thing and record some reviews together. J.C....
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The first time I saw Leah Shore's I Love You So Much, it was at Los Angeles Film Festival '14 and I completely fell truly madly deeply in love with it, Savage Garden style. She took such a simple concept of two people who love each other so much but incorporated belly-achingly hilarious dialogue and wacky animation that resulted in one of the most eyegasmic short films I have ever seen! Shore herself star in this piece...
Badass Femmes is a bi-weekly column that I write on Crome Yellow about all the Badass Females in pop culture that has shaped my life.
2014 was a great year for women in film, from female directed films like The Babadook and The Midnight Swim, to female-centric stories such as Mommy, Two Days, One Night and more. You could say that this was the year of the badass femme; but nobody stood out...
Year: 2014
Director: Jennifer Kent
Writer: Jennifer Kent
Cinematographer: Radek Ladczuk
Cast: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall
Country of Origin: Australia
Rating: N/A
Time: 93 min.
If you didn't hear already, Jennifer Kent's The Babadook is being helmed as one of the best horror films of this year, if not the decade! It was inspired by her short film called Monster which I posted up earlier today. Essie...
Before Jennifer Kent's directorial debut film. The Babadook (see review), there was her short film, Monster. Monster follows the simple premise of a single mother who is dealing with a child who is haunted by a boogeyman figure. Despite its short length, Monster is deeply haunting with its quick paced and direct climax that resurrected my buried anxiety of when I watched The Babadook....
George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road has got to be one of the most anticipated films of 2015! After the release of the teaser a couple months ago (see reaction link below), people were already excited! But now with the full trailer out only confirms what we already knew: MAD MAX IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST FILMS OF 2015! There's no doubt about it with its sweeping cinematography of the harsh and warm terrain, equally...
Badass Femmes is a bi-weekly column that I write on Crome Yellow about all the Badass Females in pop culture that has shaped my life.
When I first watched Lynne Ramsay’s unnerving We Need to Talk about Kevin, it was merely a week after the horrific 2012 Aurora theater shooting. You can imagine my shock when the real life event crossed over into the terrible events of the film, which features a mother coping...
It was announced just this morning that Terrence Malick's new film Knight of Cups was going to premiere at next year's Berlin Film Festival and so naturally, the trailer is here! The only thing we knew about the Knight of Cups was that it is about a man who deals with temptations, celebrity, and excess but nothing more considering Malick is always super secretive...
Year: 2014
Director: Xavier Dolan
Writer: Xavier Dolan
Cinematographer: André Turpin
Cast: Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément
Country of Origin: Canada
Rating: N/A
Time: 139 min.
Kristen Sales (Sales on Film) and I went to AFI FEST this past month and we were able to catch some of the same films together and so we decided to do the natural thing and record some reviews together. And how...
Rise of the Planet of the Dogs? The trailer of Cannes' Un Certain Regard WInner, White God (Fehér isten) just came out and it is a ferociously enthralling story that'll make Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey seem like a cake walk. White God is an Hungarian film directed by Kornél Mundruczó about Lili, a 13-year-old girl's fight to protect her dog Hagen. She is devastated when her father eventually sets Hagen...
I have not heard of the band Cruisr before I stumbled upon their music video for "All Over," which is possibly my favorite thing on the internet at the moment ( & I'm on the internet a lot!!). Not only is their song super catchy but it is accompanied by imaginative and seamless animation that is an homage to iconic film couples and pairs ranging from oldies like The Graduate, Lolita, and Manhattan to...
We finally get the first (French!) trailer to David Robert Mitchell's much buzzed about horror flick, It Follows, which already made it's rounds at Cannes, Fantastic Fest, AFI FEST, and now it's going to Sundance! This is Mitchell's sophomore feature after The Myth of the American Sleepover (which is on Netflix) and it looks really good! Written and directed by Michell, It Follows is about 19-year-old Jay (Maika Monroe),...
I love it when the film's marketing team knows exactly how to hype up the film even more by releasing a poster that is visually captivating and aesthetically pleasing to the eye. I have compiled 30 poster, some from the same films, that I feel are some of the best posters of this year due to their imaginative artwork that translates the film's premise with impressive visual style. Whether it's the staged and cool toned photography...
I am ashamed that this is my very first post about Tony Zhou's now infamous film channel Every Frame a Painting, which showcases a plethora of incredibly thorough and informative video essays dedicated to the analysis of film form that has focused on various topics ranging from Edgar Wright's Visual Comedy to A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet on Film. I suggest future film majors to quit school and just watch more...
Netflix's newest original show, Marco Polo nearly went under my radar when a string of articles on the interwebs lead me to the Business Insider article titled "Netflix Is Creating One of the Most Expensive TV Shows In The World--Here's Why It's So Important." After watching the trailer and reading the article, I became infinitely enthralled by Netflix's new series written and created by John Fusco, which focuses on the...
