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For MLK: The Night James Brown Saved Boston
April 5th 1968, the morning after one of the most catastrophic moments in American history - the assassination of Martin Luther King. America's inner cities had begun to implode and in Boston there is a fragile peace. The mayor of Boston is about to cancel a long-scheduled James Brown concert...
Had that Dude Shakespeare written The Big Lebowski
The are a million things that we could set aside every day to wonder "what if" about. But, to us, there can be no greater intellectual speculation than to wonder what our world would be like had William Shakespeare composed The Big Lebowski. While many of us will...
Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning bring The Runaways
A lot of us would have killed for Ellen Page as Jett, but Stewart is what we are getting so we better learn to live with it. It’s theatrical, baby. And not only is it being written and directed by a music-video director, Floria Sigismondi (best known for her...
Drinking to the Boat that Rocked: Salute to Pirate Radio
The movie is made from the same tension that defined rock n roll in the first place. It is classic Us vs Them and is territory where Philip Seymour Hoffman easily does his most fun and comedic work as an actor. Remember his Lester Bangs in Almost...
Corked: Hollywood makes wine’s first Spinal Tap
All the glorious sniffing and snobbing that is at the heart of the wine industry gets focused squarely in the lens of filmmakers Ross Clendenen and Paul Hawley. What we get is Corked, a mockumentary on the wine industry that goes right for the pretentious juggular. After the creepy...
Merlove coming to DVD: The Rudy McClain Interview
Who am I to tell someone what they should think. If they take their advice from a guy who drinks from a spit bucket, that's their journey. But anyone who enjoys Merlove will be freed from the bondage of pop-culture prerogatives. Merlove doesn't tell you what to think it just...
Ana’s Playground: war’s dirty little secret
Eric D. Howell has just completed a movie of complex moral perfection. Ana's Playground is a short 20 minute film made from a screenplay he wrote two years ago. His film, examining the horror of children in war including children as soldiers, is a stunning achievement for...
It Might Get Loud
Following three generations of rock virtuosos -- Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White -- on a journey through time, the film takes us behind the scenes as these artists talk about their relationship with and philosophies about that curve of electrified sound they have each mastered in distinctive...
