Rack Focus: The Dark Knight Rises
“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
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Why Dark Knight WILL Beat The Avengers. Period.
“Tony Stark may have deeper pockets than Bruce Wayne, but I’m pretty sure the Caped Crusader has the legacy to rub anybody’s tin canned nose into the dirt.” Continue reading Why Dark Knight WILL Beat The Avengers. Period.
Brave Review: Screw the critics and see this film
Brave Review: Falls Just Short of Masterpiece Screw it; I’m doing a Brave review. Gary is our movie reviewer, but worst case scenario, you’ll get two Brave reviews here on At The Buzzer. And better yet, they will no doubt … Continue reading Brave Review: Screw the critics and see this film
Rack Focus: Piranha 3DD
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”
Rack Focus: Men in Black III
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”
Review: The Avengers
I hated Marvel’s The Avengers. Continue reading “Review: The Avengers”
Rack Focus Review: Cabin in the Woods
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”
Rack Focus: “Rock Doc”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwB_If1VaKg
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”.
Rack Focus Review: Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Jeff, Who Lives at Home, which is written by Jay and Mark Duplass, is rather obsessed with signs — and by that, I actually mean M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs. Both present their protagonists as witnesses to coincidences that, if paid their due attention, may ultimately prove to be an order to a seemingly listless universe. But this indie drama is smarter than the big-budget sci-fier it references, and indicates this self-awareness by placing these theories in the mouth of Jeff (Jason Segal), a 30-year-old stoner who does indeed live at home with his widowed mother.
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Rack Focus: The Lorax
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 