Wanting to win the heart of Stella, an aspiring but frustrated rock star, a stuttering college student tries to finish 100 poems dedicated to her.
Hang it all, the short film form is supposed to give the little guy a chance to shine. Sure, I may not have the budget for a feature, but then, not having the expectations brought on by a budget gives me room to play. But this year, only the Pixar …
Judging by the title, one guesses this is a collection of short films that played the Sundance Film Festival.
For what turned out to be his crowning work, Abbas Kiarostami, the perdurable experimenter opted, for the first time in his career, to try his hand at animation. Some segments were filmed in color, the majority in black-and-white. Not a word was spoken, there is but a single movement of …
Lee Aronsohn was attending the University of Colorado “looking to major in sex and drugs.” Little did the future sitcom writer/producer realize that he was planting the seeds that, four decades later, would flower into this fond endeavor to recapture fleeting youth. A local band, going by the name of …
This plays as part of the 2017 San Diego International Film Festival. According to the program notes, Jack C. Newell's documentary profiles "Michelin-star rated chef Jake Bickelhaupt’s rise from illegal restauranteur to controversial culinary celebrity. It’s an intimate doc that brings you right into the thick of Bickelhaupt’s process and …
Stick two hot siblings (Mandy Moore, Claire Holt) vacationing in Mexico in an iron cage, dunk them in the shark-infested deep, and hope the Dolby Atmos and visual effects work will do most of the heavy lifting. One anticipates the random acts of dopiness often associated with this “if it …
He's a Sagittarius playboy, she's a zodiac-enthusiast Pisces. Unrequited love, anybody?
Writer-director Trent Haaga takes on Bryan Smith’s novel about a beta dude (Matthew Gray Gubler, looking like a cross between Jim Carrey, Steve Buscemi, and Joel McHale) who finds himself in thrall to a series of alpha chicks — several of whom are cheerfully, plainly psychopathic — and who must …
The title refers to the 78 separate swatches of film and the 52 splices that glue them together to form the most influential 3 minute sequence in the annals of modern movie horror.