Among the promising documentary films gaining momentum on Kickstarter, we found Director Catherine Gund’s “How To Become An Extreme Action Hero”, a documentary exploring the artistic style of dancer and master of movement, Elizabeth Streb. …

Danielle Colman brought her film, “Red” to Kickstarter with the hopes of raising $50,000 to aid in production costs. The film is promising with a great cast including Jodelle Ferland (who appeared in The Twilight …

Continuing our interest into the up and coming films looking for backers on Kickstarter, we discovered Craig Thieman’s “Love Letter”. We conducted a short interview with him to learn more about the film and its …

Plays at Cinequest in San Jose
Mar 7 at 5:00 PM, Mar 9 at 7:45 PM, and Mar 10 at 2:15pm
by Richard von Busack
Sarah Sparks (Anna Margaret Hollyman) is a NYC fix-it girl who relates better …

by Richard von Busack
Filmed on the streets of Teheran, in defiance of “The Committee,” Iran’s morals police, Hossein Keshavarz’ unauthorized film Dog Sweat has been playing the world film festival circuit playing this Thursday in …

Lakewood, California is just north of Long Beach, and is best known for being the birthplace of the Denny’s restaurant chain.  It’s one of those post-WWII boom towns just blends into the rest of the towns …

When Steve Jobs passed a few weeks ago, a lot of the talk was about the man as co-founder and head of Apple Computers.  After all, for the last 16 years, he was the very …

by Richard von Busack
Pulling from a fifth of Overactor’s Choice blended whiskey and sobbing about the Pequod, Nick Nolte puts a third mortgage on his integrity to try to give the titanically overblown Warrior some …

You’re a wannabe filmmaker, interested in making as much money as humanly possible.  You have very little use for plot or characters, but you have a fetish for explosions and computer animation.  You want to …

by Richard von Busack
TAKASHI MIIKE’S 13 Assassins isn’t nearly as shocking as some of his films but does provide a novel take on the samurai film; it mulls over the terrible thought of being transfixed …