Chicago International Film Festival… Chicago International Film Festival 2017: Offenders / Have a Nice Day 27 Oct 201722 Nov 2017 My third and final clump consisted of two World Cinema offerings: Offenders and Have a Nice Day. Offenders (Izgrednici) Serbia. Directed by Dejan Zecevic. 107 minutes. The CIFF program described Offenders as a…
Chicago International Film Festival… Chicago International Film Festival 2017: In the Fade / Mutafukaz / The Endless 23 Oct 201722 Nov 2017 My second "clump" of screenings included one World Cinema entry, In the Fade, and two After Dark offerings, Mutafukaz and The Endless. Apropos of nothing, I can't express how good it made me…
Movie Reviews Roger Waters: The Wall 22 Nov 201622 Nov 2017 United Kingdom. Directed by Roger Waters and Sean Evans, 2014. 132 minutes. Roger Waters, the famously megalomaniacal former bassist, songwriter, and creative generalissimo behind Pink Floyd, spent the early 2010s touring the world…
TV Good Sleep Bad TV Good Sleep Bad, episode 13: “Cyber City Oedo 808 & Danger Mouse” 11 Oct 201611 Oct 2016 London, England*. And in a basement in moneyed Mayfair** lives the greatest guardian of cult television the world has ever known. Yes, Elwood Jones, the secret agent so secret that even…
Fantastic Fest… Fantastic Fest 2016: Wrap-Up 1 Oct 201622 Nov 2017 Ah, Fantastic Fest! It's kind of like a comic-book convention, except with Elijah Wood instead of cosplayers, and there's always some guy right in front of you in the line…
Fantastic Fest… Fantastic Fest 2016: Day Two 24 Sep 201631 Oct 2016 Day two gives us a new Studio Ghibli co-production, the latest from Ana Lily Amirpour, and more. Continue reading "Fantastic Fest 2016: Day Two"
TV Good Sleep Bad TV Good Sleep Bad, episode 11: “Rick and Morty & The Outer Limits” 3 Sep 20166 Nov 2016 It's time for another episode of TV Good Sleep Bad, the cult-TV podcast that is not born into this world fumbling for meaning! It was created to serve a singular purpose…
Fantastic Fest… Fantastic Fest 2015: Wrap-up 4 Oct 201510 Oct 2016 Note to those who have been following my Fantastic Fest 2015 coverage: there isn't any new content in this post, this is just the "Best Of" and Ranking segments broken…
Fantastic Fest… Fantastic Fest 2015: Day Two 26 Sep 201510 Oct 2016 On day two: the quirky Dutch crime drama The Glorious Works of G.F. Zwaen; Darling, the latest psych-horror from the director of Pod; the highly-buzzed Green Room, starring Patrick Stewart…
Fantastic Fest… Fantastic Fest 2015: Day One 25 Sep 201510 Oct 2016 The first day: The Lobster, from the director of Dogtooh; and Belladonna of Sadness, a rediscovered Japanese animated head-trip from the early '70s. Continue reading "Fantastic Fest 2015: Day One"
