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SXSW Interview: '21 Jump Street' Directors Chris Miller & Phil Lord
Following up the interview with 21 Jump Street co-stars Rob Riggle & Dave Franco is my interview with the co-directors, Chris Miller and Phil Lord, who last directed Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs before this, as well as the animated show "Clone High". This new 21 Jump Street is furiously funny (review here). While down at SXSW in Austin, we were lucky enough to pull some of the people behind and in front of the camera to talk about making this comedy. Check out what directing duo Chris and Phil had to say about taglines, a hypothetical situation where their film features the biggest movie star on the planet, and more.
› Posted March 15 in Featured, Interviews, SXSW 12 | 1 Comment
SXSW 2012: Real Potential is Lost Entirely in Clive Owen's 'Intruders'
Classic monster stories have creatures tormenting children. Children are often the protagonist unless there's an adult around to really take charge of a situation. Monsters haunting children is comfortable to a story. It's easy. At least, it feels easy with Intruders, the new film from Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. But Fresnadillo, who knows intensity and haunting atmospheres, has the whole thing on auto-pilot. Intruders is a film that desperately yearns to find its rhythm, which it never does, all the while we're revving up for the inevitable information dump. Info dumps are easier than monsters scaring children, now that I think about it.
› Posted March 15 in Reviews, SXSW 12 | 2 Comments
SXSW Interview: '21 Jump Street' Actors Rob Riggle & Dave Franco
This new 21 Jump Street is furiously funny (my review here). Unrelenting, I would say. It takes tropes you learned from the show fits them into a tight-fitting, buddy cop comedy that holds little back in the way of R-rated humor. While down at SXSW in Austin, we were lucky enough to pull some of the people behind and in front of the camera to talk about this very funny movie. Up first are co-stars Rob Riggle and Dave Franco. Hear what the two had to say about working with dual directors (interview coming), thoughts on the original series, and Riggle's most famed catchphrase. It's a very amusing interview itself! Watch below.
› Posted March 15 in Featured, Interviews, SXSW 12 | 3 Comments
SXSW 2012: 'V/H/S' Marries Found Footage & Anthology to Horrific Success
While found footage is on the upswing and may be taking over the planet soon, anthology horror is a thing of the past. A genre that's never really found its footing for upper level cultural dominance, anthology horror films find themselves in 2012 on DVD shelves, film festivals, and the occasional, short-lived TV series. Creepshow was 30 years ago. Thankfully, we do have those film fests that showcase quality films, anthology or found footage, when they come into play, and V/H/S is both. It's an anthology of found footage films, all tied with a wrap-around story and dished out for your horror hunger pangs. It's scary. It's funny.
SXSW 2012: Solid, Slow Burn Thriller 'The Hunter' Speaks Volumes
What would it be like to be the last of a species in the world, especially a world that scours the planet for rarities? It would be a threatened life, always on the move, even more so a rare creature living in the wild. That's just one of the questions raised in Daniel Nettheim's The Hunter, a haunting yet balanced film with the vibe of The Edge and precision of The American. With a stunning performance by one of today's best actors, it transcends its slow burn, a touch slower than necessary, to become a top-notch thriller, one that thankfully has something important to say. It's anything but flawless, but, then again, the rarities
› Posted March 13 in Reviews, SXSW 12 | 6 Comments
SXSW 2012: Scott Derrickson's 'Sinister' is a Welcomed Discomfort
Sinister had just ended. A sense of unnerving rushed over the SXSW audience, at the film's surprise secret premiere. At first, I didn't think I like the film I had just seen, the R-rated, haunted house horror starring Ethan Hawke and co-written by C. Robert Cargill (aka AICN's Massawyrm). I didn't think I liked it. In hindsight, I realize it just upset me. Sinister is the kind of horror that hurts, a found footage film where you see the character who actually finds the footage. But this footage isn't film students running through the woods or even a 9-foot tall demon bending people over backwards. This is snuff Hawke's writer character is
› Posted March 13 in Movie News, Reviews, SXSW 12 | 4 Comments
SXSW 2012: Intense Comedy Makes '21 Jump Street' a Riotous Update
You know Channing Tatum is damn funny, right? There hasn't been much opportunity for him to flex his comedic muscles with things like G.I. Joe and The Vow getting in the way, but all that changes in 21 Jump Street. Tatum is funny. His co-lead Jonah Hill is funny, but we knew that. In fact, listing the aspects of 21 Jump Street that will make you laugh is a fruitless act. Everything about this film is funny and not only funny. It's delirious how viciously funny 21 Jump Street is, a modern update of the '80s TV show about undercover cops going back to high school to bust drug rings. You could call the comedy in this intense.
› Posted March 13 in Reviews, SXSW 12 | 2 Comments
SXSW 2012: Low Budget Sci-Fi Shines Again in Nir Paniry's 'Extracted'
Nir Paniry's Extracted, playing at SXSW, is a classic case on how indie science fiction works. Focusing more on narrative and character than blockbuster explosions or motion captured creatures, Paniry wraps his story tightly around its central premise and leaves little fat around the meat. Extracted moves with a purpose, setting up the characters and conflict quickly so that there's plenty of room for the second and third acts to breath. The non-linear structure combined with the vast amount of time within which the story takes place create a scope that no amount of computer generated, alien landscapes could achieve.
› Posted March 13 in Reviews, SXSW 12 | 4 Comments
Mondo's Amazing New Gallery Opens with Sci-Fi Art at SXSW 2012
The Mondo Gallery opened in Austin, Texas during SXSW 2012, and with it came movie poster heaven. The theme for the gallery's opening event was science fiction. Some of the greatest artists in the world came with their designs for the best sci-fi movies of history. Movie posters for films like Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn got a reworking by artist Tyler Stout. Phantom City offered a creative take on the most famous image from Melies' A Trip to the Moon. Jason Edmiston's acrylic on wood panel of Flash Gordon's Ming the Merciless is a thing of sinister beauty. Even Duck Dodgers got his own poster from Tom Whalen.
› Posted March 11 in Artwork, Posters, SciFi, SXSW 12 | 6 Comments
SXSW 2012: Bobcat Goldthwait's 'God Bless America' is No 'Network'
Thank God for Bobcat Goldthwait. While many other directors are culling together banal statements — sometimes not even a statement — and hack representations on how they think the world should go, Goldthwait is saying something. What he says isn't always said subtly. More often than not, it's said in the most unflinching, some call it abrasive, ways imaginable. When Goldthwait isn't subtle, his art suffers for it. Case in point, God Bless America, a film ten times more interesting than the cliched image pushing we so often get with today's filmmakers. Even when Goldthwait speaks off key, his voice is a welcomed departure
› Posted March 11 in Reviews, SXSW 12 | 8 Comments
SXSW 2012: 'Cabin in the Woods' is Close Enough to Perfect For Me
What can you say about a film that begins by revealing its climax, one of the most fulfilling of its kind, from scene one? Little can be said about Cabin in the Woods, especially if one is so inclined to worry about things like spoilers. You shouldn't know much about this film. Know that five friends trek to an abandoned cabin for some rest and relaxation—I'm sure that's all—and things don't go as planned. Things get quite horrific, in fact, and, as with the best horror, nothing ever goes as expected. Beyond that, there are only so many ways one can say it's the most intelligent, enjoyable and satisfying horror to come along in years. Maybe ever.
› Posted March 10 in Reviews, SXSW 12 | 25 Comments
Jeremy Hand-Picks 13 Most Anticipated Films Showing at SXSW 2012
It's that time of year again. Yes, that time of year, when moviegoers, music lovers, and all walks of hip life flock to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest (SXSW) to see the newest films, hear the latest bands, and tech the latest tech. Or whatever you do with tech. Experience. That's it. But we're not worried about tech or games or being the earliest of adopters when it comes to entertainment gadgetry. Instead, we're looking at the films, those beautiful, little wonders in 70-120-minute packages. Every year people are looking for the next Duplass, but we're just looking for some great films, and we've got a list of 13 that we're excited about.
› Posted March 9 in Movie News, SXSW 12 | 5 Comments
Review: John Carter Deserves All the Legendary Status It Can Get
Yes, 95 years is a long time for fans of a novel to wait for a film adaptation. Anyone waiting that long for one film probably won't be satisfied by the results, either, the build has been so big. Chances are, anyone who grew up reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter series of novels isn't even around to see the new film from Andrew Stanton. They'd be missing out, too. John Carter, based on the first of Burroughs' Barsoom series, A Princess of Mars, is a swashbuckling adventure that relies heavily on character, story, and visual effects alike, and they all mesh wonderfully. It's been a long wait, but for all the fans, it will be well worth it.
› Posted March 9 in Reviews | 20 Comments
Review: 'ATM' is a 15-Minute Idea Trapped Inside a 90-Minute Movie
Three people trapped in an ATM building. A hooded killer stands outside, toying with them. He doesn't try to break in. He doesn't let them leave, either. What would you do? That's the question screenwriter Chris Sparling and director David Brooks ask the audience with the high-concept thriller, ATM. It could have worked. If the characters here reacted in any real way, they might have pulled it off. They don't, and it becomes exceedingly obvious that ATM is a 15-minute idea trapped in a 90-minute movie. With unsatisfying and unnatural padding, flashes of style, it's tone and energy is too often replaced with shambling and idiocy.
› Posted March 5 in Indies, Reviews | 16 Comments
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