For a filmmaker, the ‘birth’ of their fist feature film is just like that of a child, but perhaps even more expensive and painful. Often shot on a shoestring budget, using crowd-funding and calling in favors, tirelessly convincing investors of … Continue reading
Rainy Kerwin’s first directorial project, THE WEDDING INVITATION, is available on VOD June 6, 2017. Kerwin also wrote and stars in the film which chronicles three best friends’ mission to land dates for a 1980s themed wedding. Please read my … Continue reading
I like to think of myself as a champion of first time feature filmmakers. It’s not that short films are easy to conceive of or create. But to tackle one’s first feature film is a Herculean task. It is an … Continue reading
Let’s do this a little differently. Let’s be unedited, loose and kinda bitchy just like SUICIDE SQUAD. I want to cover two critical points right up front before I get all analytical and serious about the movie. People, it’s a comic book. OK? … Continue reading
The cosmos is having a moment with Brian Cranston, and in saying that in no way do I mean to suggest that it is undeserved. With eight projects currently filming or in post-production we cannot get enough of him after … Continue reading
I admit to being a Nicolas Cage fan. In fact, I try to see every movie he makes no matter how insipid the plot or blatant a sell-out it may be, in part it is because I believe that Nic … Continue reading
“How much trouble can one poet be?” Poet Dylan Thomas lived a brief and not terribly prolific life. His dexterity with words however made him one of the 20th century’s most beloved writers. He struggled financially and against a host … Continue reading
TALE OF TALES is an Italian production of three “fairy tales” originally written in a collection by 16th Century Italian poet and author Giambattista Basile. His original work, Lo cunto de li cunti overo lo trattenemiento de peccerille, told 49 tales … Continue reading
As a parent whose children have grown to the point of growing out of ‘children’s movies,’ I find it fascinating what a visceral response I have to a request to watch one. It is not as though I unduly suffered cinematically when my kids … Continue reading
THE INVITATION is a film which will certainly get you talking. About what, exactly, may not be what the filmmakers intended. It is a film most definitely about Los Angeles and what most of us, especially those who do not live … Continue reading