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CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHT: for Short Film SPINE By Rachel Mueller
If you are a Philly or Tri-State area filmmaker about to embark on a Crowdfunding Campaign and would like some additional FREE promotion via Tinsel & Tine and our social media platforms… email me: tinseltine@gmail.com Below post featured 6/1/17 – 7/1/17 CROWNFUNDING FEATURE: SPINE: A Short Film Philly Filmmakers – Temple Students SPINE offers a unique story that portrays the healing process of mental health. It is untraditional in a variety of ways, and portrays a well-rounded female protagonist. This representation is crucial in our society where at one point any medical problem a woman faced was “in her head.” Now when mental illness is gaining traction in media, it…
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THE TRIP TO SPAIN
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Tinsel & Tine’s Look at 3rd in Foodie Film Series For a food and film blog, I have to admit my foodie movie posts are few and far between. Often, I’ll see a foodie film trailer and be like, I’ve gotta get back to that, but the plot doesn’t really pull me into wanting to see it. Not so with this series of foodie travel films starring British comedians Rob Brydon & Steve Coogan. THE TRIP TO SPAIN is the 3rd, written and directed by Michael Winterbottom. They’re actually a BBC TV series, starting in 2010 with THE TRIP, which are edited into feature films;…
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Lionsgate’s: UNLOCKED
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Every so often I am sent a screener code by a studio and asked if I’d be interested in reviewing a film that will have a limited release. I love this, of course, because it makes me feel like a real insider. This time it was Lionsgate who emailed me about a Spy thriller called UNLOCKED. It stars Noomi Rapace (Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series) John Malkovich, Michael Douglas, Orlando Bloom and Toni Collette (who looks just like Annie Lennox in this movie). At first I didn’t understand the title until I watched an interview with Rapace, who plays Alice…
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Movie Blog Post: BRIGSBY BEAR, STEP, PATTI CAKE$
Not only am I equally impressed by each of these three films, each one had a Q&A in Philly! See Mini Reviews and Videos...
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Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect
I recommend seeing this Andrew Wyeth Retrospect at the Brandywine River Museum of Art which closes next weekend 9/17/17. I went the first week in July and kept meaning to post these pictures, but this entire summer has been more fleeting than any I remember. I only ever knew fragments about the entire clan of PA Wyeth painters, so it was interesting to find out more details. I never even knew how many of Andrew Wyeth subjects were people of color. But what fascinated me most was the affair he carried on for 15 years resulting in 240 paintings of Helga Testorf, a neighbor of Wyeth’s in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania…
