Movie Review: “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold”
Morgan Spurlock’s documentary “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold” is an up-close look into the world of product placement in pop culture and the advertising firms and companies that make it happen. Throughout the film, you watch him bounce from business to business pitching the exact film you’re watching. What’s it about? He doesn’t really know....
Movie Review: “Hesher”
In perhaps the most surprisingly good movie I’ve seen all year, Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Hesher: a violent, stoically-angry, pyromaniac, womanizing degenerate with a good heart who comes across a boy named T.J., who is recently grieving the loss of his mother in a car wreck. Hesher becomes the boy’s satanic guardian angel–responsible for both his...
“The Arctic Circle” Examines Greed and Temptation
This stop-motion film by Kevin Parry is one of the coolest stop-motion films I’ve ever seen. Everything from the music to the tedious articulations of the characters is spot-on. Tim Burton called the film a “cross between 2001 [A Space Odyssey] and Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer,” and in some weird way I think he’s right....
Short Film “Gone Goodbye” Explores Relationships
This 2009 film was created in 100 hours for a film competition, which it wound up winning. From the moment the work starts, it seems to haunt the viewer. The opening shot is excellent–a truck driving in a remote area, perhaps away from someone/something, or perhaps towards something else. The narration of the note, the...
John Malkovich in “Butterflies”
Just when you thought John Malkovich couldn’t get any weirder he makes something like this. Although, I have to admit, I like this side of John. This film reminds me of that scene in Requiem for a Dream, you know–“be excited! be be excited!”–paired with a Godspeed! You Black Emperor sound check. The most puzzling...
