Philly Spotlight
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Philly Spotlight: Philly Independent Film Festival Preview @ Art Alliance
One of the films "The Invitation" had its first preview before a test audience. The filmmaker J.P. Hoffman (Imaginarium Pictures) was in attendance along with the featured actors Tom Schmitt and Melissa O’Donnell. On the surface the film appears to be a break up love story, until it takes a turn to the dark side.
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Philadelphia Connection: FOXCATCHER
Steve Carell plays the wealthy, eccentric, oddball, murderer John du Pont with perhaps a little too much characterization. Everyone's been praising Carell for losing himself in a dramatic roll; but for me, the transformative hair, prosthetic nose, extensive makeup, small teeth and overly stiff upward tilt of the head, is all a bit distracting...
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BLACK TRIBBLES: Le Anne Lindsay Joins Tribble Nation
POST UPDATE 5/24/17 Tinsel & Tine aka Buttercake Tribble on Black Tribbles Podcast “Spoiled Tribbles” BLACK PANTHER Pirates of the Carribbean: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES LOGAN DOCTOR STRANGE STAR TREK BEYOND GHOSTBUSTERS 2016 Batman V Superman: DAWN OF JUSTICE Geek at Heart: AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON James Bond: SPECTRE Geeks in the Round: FANTASTIC FOUR Summer Female Bond Spoof: SPY Summer Disaster Movie: SAN ANDREAS POST UPDATE 1/16/15: I DID IT! First time on live radio. Of course anal me had made lots of notes, but after I got into the rhythm of things I was able to start winging it and join in the…
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The Importance of SELMA: Interview with director Ava DuVernay in Philadelphia
T&T: On the days when you filmed the massacre on the bridge, what was the set like between white and black cast members? Was there a lot of tension? And if so, did you try to dispel it or use it to heighten the scene? AVA: That's interesting. It's the last day of my 2 week press tour and no one else has asked me that question. So that's pretty cool.
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See Chris Rock’s TOP FIVE (Rock in Philly Video)
Rock’s “Top Five” displays the finest strengths we’ve seen yet from a filmmaker who is clearly becoming more immersed in and thoughtful about his craft. There is a slow growing group of comic voices aspiring to put more soul and feeling into comedies, and Rock joins Louis CK, Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow in that category with this film… READ MORE – Kevin Jagernauth, The Playlist Indiewire.com This isn’t the first praise I’ve read when it comes to Chris Rock’s thoughtful, semi-autobiographical, comedy Top Five (click for trailer) about a successful “Hammy” comedian coming to a crossroads in his life, looking to take a serious left turn with a film…
