Sci-Fi
Jettison Your Loved Ones
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008dir: Ray Tintori, 6min—Sheer exuberance. The web is populated with a lot of lo-fi, shoestring budget work, but admittedly few have a vision or voice. That does not apply to Jettison your Loved Ones, a student film by young up and comer Ray Tintori, which oozes with charming quirk and character.
It is almost detrimental to […]
Fifty Percent Grey
Thursday, July 24th, 2008dir: Ruairi Robinson, 3min—Now is a good time to catch up on some of the greats that we may have missed. For example, the Oscar-nominated animation, Fifty Percent Grey. This dark comedy explores the age-old question of what happens after death. A recently deceased soldier finds himself in a serene grey paradise with nothing but […]
I Am Stamos
Sunday, July 6th, 2008dir: Rob Meltzer, 18 min—
“John Stamos is here, and he’s pissed!”
“He’s in the vents!”
“Ahhhhhhh!”
The pinnacle of postmodern feature cinema (among well-known films) is 1999’s Being John Malkovich. Its plot twists seven ways and is always happy to take a side road to nowhere before continuing on its merry way. During its convoluted trip, it sweeps […]
Out There
Sunday, April 6th, 2008John Coven, 7:35—Originality is one of the greatest virtues a film can have. But few films are original, not in any grand way. Rather, they tell stories we’ve seen and heard and read hundreds of times before. The better ones present it a little differently, but the basics are old friends. […]