Roger Ebert is the world’s most respected film critic. Armond White is its least. See what happens when they hang out every week here at At The Buzzer with Gary Sundt’s new comic-review hybrid, “Ebert & Armond: At The Movies”. … Continue reading TOP 5 FILMS OF 2012: Lists by Ebert & Armond
Roger Ebert is the world’s most respected film critic. Armond White is its least. See what happens when they hang out every week here at At The Buzzer with Gary Sundt’s new web comic-movie review hybrid, “Ebert & Armond: At … Continue reading LIFE OF PI: Reviewed by Ebert & Armond
“This ain’t your daddy’s comic book movie, but rather an apocalyptic vision of a terrorist whose only goal is to have the city tear itself apart.” Continue reading Rack Focus: The Dark Knight Rises
If you didn’t see Alexandre Aja’s Piranha 3D (2010), you missed a fiercely fun horror comedy that struck a balance between over-the-top gore and earnest wit while telling the tale of a Spring Break laid waste by an army of prehistoric piranha. Don’t believe me? Consider that film’s opening – a tongue-in-cheek vignette featuring Richard Dreyfus as a drunken fisherman whose boat is consumed by the monster fish, recalling both his character from Jaws (one of the finest films ever made) and the humble beginnings of “Nature Attacks!”-style horror before taking its own bite out of the genre. Continue reading “Rack Focus: Piranha 3DD”
Men in Black III (MIB3) will likely play as a pleasant distraction only for those who don’t generally pay attention to what they’re watching. J (Will Smith) and Retro K (Josh Brolin) stumble from adventure to adventure on the road to the film’s conclusion at the Cape Canaveral launch of Apollo 11, underutilizing nearly every potential element of it’s fun time-traveling premise beyond by a well-played but ultimately throwaway cameo from Bill Hader as Andy Warhol. No real mention of Vietnam, The Beatles, Woodstock, Charlie Manson, or Martin Luther King Jr. (who was assassinated a mere year prior to the film’s proceedings). Continue reading “Rack Focus: Men in Black III”
I hated Marvel’s The Avengers. Continue reading “Review: The Avengers”
Cabin in the Woods is as smart as it thinks it is. The only reason it isn’t smarter is because its tongue is so self-satisfyingly planted in its cheek that you can practically see the smirks of producer/co-writer Joss Whedon and director/co-writer Drew Goddard on every frame. Horror films are perhaps the easiest to lampoon, but I don’t think the genre has ever quite been skewered this good. Continue reading “Rack Focus Review: Cabin in the Woods”
Detention jams as many ideas into its 90-minute run time as possible — including references to The Breakfast Club, the Disney Renaissance, the Saw franchise, David Cronenburg, Scream, Stephen King, the Backstreet Boys, Mean Girls, Nickelodeon, and lots of other pop trivia. Additionally, there is a time-traveling bear and a mutant fly-boy. The flick is also a jumbled mess, but mostly pretty fun in that live-action-cartoon-soaked-in-blood kind of way. Continue reading “Rack Focus Review: Detention”
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here’s what I filmed while in Las Gaviotas down in Baha, Mexico. It’s the story of what happens in that space between the rock and the hard place. I call it “Rock Doc”.
I will have reviews for “American Wedding” and “Titanic 3D” very soon, but I am currently in Mexico for the Easter holiday. In the interim, I figured my new short would make a fine movie-related blog post.
This is the third installment of “Somewhere in the United States”, my collection of 12 film shorts I’m shooting in 12 months. I started this series back in November, and I will admit that I am a little behind. However, my aim is to get paid to write, direct, and produce films, and somebody once said that producing 12 shorts in 12 months was a good way to practice.
I invite anybody else who dreams of creating something great to do the same thing. Wanna write? Write 12 short stories in 12 months. Wanna be a musician? 12 songs. Wanna make comics? 12 mini comics. Make them presentation worthy. Make them something you’re proud to showcase. Maybe they suck, but I promise you’ll get a little better every time.
All that said, here’s what I filmed while in Las Gaviotas down in Baha, Mexico. It’s the story of what happens in that space between the rock and the hard place. I call it “Rock Doc”.
The Lorax is my favorite of the many animated adaptations of Dr. Seuss’ works from the 1960s and ‘70s — where bizarre and vaguely hippie-dippie tunes were set against the rough lines and bright-yet-cruddy pastels that are synonymous with the artist’s humble illustrations. Now we have a feature-length version courtesy of the studio and director of Despicable Me, where the viewer enjoys state-of-the-art CGI artistry wrapped in a cotton candy-coated color scheme not found anywhere I’ve seen in nature. Continue reading “Rack Focus: The Lorax”
Gray Areas 