As honest as the day is long, this is a film about Frank Zappa, by Frank Zappa, starring Frank Zappa and, yes, it is in his own words. Directed by Thorsten Schütte, the screenplay is a treasure trove of archival interviews with the Boss hisself. A few performance clips are thrown in, but it is
Award winning Canadian documentary filmmaker Kevin McMahon has worked on his climate change documentary Spaceship Earth for thirty five years. He has seen firsthand the effects of climate change in the Arctic and traveled the world to speak with scientists, futurists, intellectuals and environmental warriors. His acclaimed ten hour film The Polar Sea set the
Writer/director Brady Corbet (co-written with Mona Fastvold) has created a unique and powerful film that is stripped to bare bones but ripples with under currents. The superficial story is that of a troubled child, his parents, and those close to them. Some have used the words “disturbed” or even “psychopathic” to describe the son (played
EuropaCorp have released this new image from Luc Besson’s forthcoming sci-fi movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The image comes in front of a Comic Con panel with director Besson and cast members Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne. The movie is based on the graphic novel series Valerian and Laureline. The story follow two special operatives
Writer/director Matt Ross comes out swinging in his second debut starring the never-looked-better Viggo Mortensen. In Captain Fantastic Mortensen plays Ben, the father of a family of six kids aged 6 to 18 who have long since left society to live far off the grid. During the first half of the movie father Ben appears
Emerging director Brad Furman grabbed the gold ring with this bit of fantastic casting starring Bryan Cranston from the smash “Breaking Bad” series. The BB Cranston was a bad guy playing a good guy, in The Infiltrator he is a good guy playing a bad guy. As it turns out, it is the same thing, at
Just when you think you have seen everything, there comes a documentary that is so improbable that it refuses even the label of a doc. As the story goes, writer/director Vitaly Mansky was invited by the hyper-secret government of North Korea to make a documentary. The doc was to feature typical scenes in the days
Film fans continue to bow down to an important event in cinematic criticism, when master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock sat down with French auteur/critic François Truffaut to answer a few questions. Their discussions took place in Hitchcock’s Universal offices over eight days in 1962, just a day longer than it took Hitchcock to shoot the shower
“Never work with animals or children,” said W.C. Fields, but writer director Taika Waititi gambled on child actor Julian Dennison and won. Based on the book by Barry Crump, “Wilderpeople” is a charming road trip through the spectacularly beautiful New Zealand back country. Although respect for the land and animals is in every frame of
Cinema has been enamoured with the vampire myth since its inception, from the silent chills of Nosferatu to the more recent teen angst sparkle of the Twilight series. Join us as we take a look at some of the best vampire movies of all time. What makes vampires so appealing to film-makers? Well, probably the same things that make