Monthly Archives: December 2008

GRAN TORINO

By | December 2008

It is a fun, witty, and poignant last dance that ends up being a modern day take on the classic western archetype that Eastwood knows so well. It is every bit as appropriate an acting finale as John Wayne’s The Shootist.

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GRAN TORINO

Clint Eastwood is the rare actor who has had two ‘final acts’ in his career. The first came in 1992, when the revisionist western Unforgiven...

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CHUNGKING EXPRESS

Slow dancing with the love of your life on New Year’s. Teaching the girl you secretly love how to drive a car. Smelling the back of your girlfriend’s...

WILL POWER: INTERVIEW WITH CLAYMATION PIONEER WILL VINTON

Originally ran on FilmThreat.com on 02/20/08 Will Vinton sports both the shiny, bald bean of Lex Luthor, and the untamed handlebar mustache of Yosemite...

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THIRST

Two couples venture into the desert for an amateur photo shoot. Swerving to avoid a wolf, their car crashes. A struggle for survival in blazing heat...

DUPLASS BROTHERS BECOME THE “BAGHEAD” BROTHERS

Originally ran on FilmThreat.com on 01/24/08 After a few truly great short films, writer/director brothers Jay and Mark Duplass smacked a homerun with...

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NOTHING LIKE THE HOLIDAYS

There are nights when I devour a film, slipping myself into the characters and their failures and successes. On other nights, however, I prefer to sink...

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THE MESS

Subtext seems at the forefront of writer-director Art D’Alessandro’s short. A middle-aged man in a white shirt and tie comes home from work. Things are...

DOES SIZE MATTER? THE LONGEST TITLES IN MOVIE HISTORY

Originally ran on FilmThreat.com on 01/11/08 Two of the movies opening this week are unlikely to make an appearance on any “best of 2008” or awards...

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ZOMBIE CHEERLEADING CAMP

This plays like the final class project at a second rate community college. It’s barely worthy of direct-to-video. The story, what little there is,...

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SWIMMING TO THE MOON

Just in time for the holidays, it’s a short about suicide – wheeeeeeee! A lonely television journalist, Dana Long, eats at a Chinese Restaurant on...

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