by Richard von Busack
San Jose’s internationally famous Psycho Donuts has a cameo in Of Two Minds (playing Sep 1 at 7pm at the United Film Festival in San Francisco at the Roxie Theater). Directors Doug …

(Dreama Walker as Becky, above)
by Richard von Busack
If the acting in Craig Zobel’s Compliance (tickets and showtimes here) were as powerful as the premise, it’d be unwatchable. Even as it stands, Compliance is one of …

by Richard von Busack
It’s two swift, magnificent, gorgeously colored and semi-coherent hours of wuxia by the master Tsui Hark. The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (tickets and showtimes here) is a remake/sequel of Tsui’s 1992 …

Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This same concept applies to the movement of an individual through life. There are consequences to every action or decision a person makes. Alexandra (Alex) Leopold and her co-writer Allison Anderson explore the aftermath of making those choices in their film Washed.

Gun control is a hot debate in the United States. Is a person actually any safer if they own a firearm? And beyond that even, what does owning a gun do to a person? Can it change their personality? Mold them into someone they never would have identified with before the purchase? Writer and Director Spencer Gillis examines just that in his upcoming film, GUN.

Ky Dickens brought her film, Sole Survivor, to Kickstarter in the hopes of raising $18,000 to cover post production costs. The documentary film delves into the lives of four sole survivors of commercial airline crashes. …

With 12-21-2012 looming on the horizon, post-apocalyptic films and TV shows are on the rise in popularity. TV shows like The Walking Dead (AMC), Survivors (BBC), and The Colony (Discovery Channel) examine the psychological and social effects an apocalyptic event has on its survivors. Post-apocalyptic films like 28 Days Later, I Am Legend, The Road, and even The Hunger Games have had an overwhelming amount of success at the box office as a result of their prediction/warning of what may come when the world ends.

Randy Overland’s indie film, A Man I Met, recently completed its campaign for production funding on Kickstarter with a very successful $5,280 in pledges from interested backers. The film focuses on a woman who faces a tough decision between her career and her personal life, a situation many couples face today. The promising short film is in pre-production now, but we had the opportunity to interview Randy about his background in film making, the film, and his influences.