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YEAST

By | March 2008

2008 SXSW NARRATIVE COMPETITION FEATURE! The old term “familiarity breeds contempt” has never been more apropos than in Mary Bronstein’s directorial debut, “Yeast”…

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YEAST

Only people who have been friends forever have the ability to be more cruel, rude and downright evil to one another than anyone else can be. Well, except...

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THE TEMERITY OF ZIM

I sat down to write this review and realized that there wasn't one nice thing I could think of to say about "The Temerity of Zim." From the voiceover...

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MY EFFORTLESS BRILLIANCE

Whenever someone pitches their film to me and includes the words "improvised dialogue" or any permutation of that statement, I immediately throw up an...

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DOOMSDAY

Judging from the likes of "Dog Soldiers" and "The Descent", writer-director Neil Marshall has an affinity towards examining the interplay between Darwinian...

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SLEEPWALKING

Broken homes make for good drama, so it’s a given that an indie film with a star-studded cast would come along to deal with this type of subject matter....

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BEAUTIFUL LOSERS

I've always found movies about artists to be very challenging for me to wrap my head around. Why? Because I don't really know what art is (and I was a...

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THE DISTRICT! (DVD)

There are only three types of foreign comedy “styles” if you think about it. The kind that's understandable to western audiences, the kind that's not...

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A-Z OF MOTOGP (DVD)

"A-Z of MotoGP" is exactly what it sounds like -- a primer on the world of MotoGP starting with aerodynamics and ending with zoom-in. Will it appeal to...

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YOUNG@HEART

Stephen Walker's "Young@Heart" is documented proof that being over-the-hill is strictly a state of mind, that you can ultimately continue your life with as...

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COLLEGE ROAD TRIP

As critics approached this Disney release with their fists up and ready to bash, they couldn't see that “College Road Trip” – in Weird Al Yankovic's...

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