AFF 2014 Review – Having Fun Up There
Starring: Jon Ryan, Maria Natapov, Hana Carpenter Directed by: Frankie Frain (“Sexually Frank”) Written by: Geoff Tarulli (debut) In “Having Fun Up There,” 37-year-old musician Mark (Jon Ryan) is struggling to keep his life together. After a series of bad gigs and going nowhere in the music industry, Mark can’t seem to catch a break […]
AFF 2014 Review – Phantom Halo
Starring: Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Luke Kleintank, Sebastian Roche Directed by:Â Antonia Bogdanavich (debut) Written by:Â Antonia Bogdanavich (debut) and Anne Heffron (debut) In “Phantom Halo,” a pair of brothers, Samuel (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) and Beckett (Luke Kleintank) are forced to commit crimes, giving all of their proceeds to their alcoholic and abusive father Warren (Sebastian Roche). Fed up with […]
AFF 2014 Review – Looking for Lions
Starring: Chelsea Gilligan, Todd Julian, Norman Lesperance Directed by: Bradley W. Ragland (“So Long Jimmy”) Written by: Norman Lesperance (“Future Murder”) In “Looking for Lions,” a full-length adaptation of a promising short film called “Savage,” the question of “how far will a person go when they are desperate to save the person that they love?” […]
AFF 2014 Review – Mentor
Directed by:Â Alix Lambert Between 2005 and 2010, five students from Mentor High School in Mentor, Ohio committed suicide. The one common thread between them was the suspicion that bullying played some role in these cases. So what happened in this town (one that was ranked one of the best places in America to live in […]
AFF 2014 Interview – Alix Lambert – Mentor
Between the years of 2005 and 2010, five students from Mentor High School in Mentor, Ohio committed suicide. With all of these cases citing bullying as at least a partial factor into these deaths, documentary filmmaker Alix Lambert set out to Mentor, Ohio to investigate what went wrong. The results are shocking, infuriating and baffling as […]
2014 Austin Film Festival Coverage
MOVIE REVIEWS Review: The Last Time You Had Fun | by Cody Villafana Review: Mentor | by Cody Villafana Review: Looking for Lions | by Cody Villafana Review: Phantom Halo | by Cody Villafana Review: Having Fun Up There | by Cody Villafana INTERVIEWS Interview: Alix Lambert, “Mentor” | by Cody Villafana For more information or to purchase a badge to Austin Film Festival, […]
AFF 2014 Review – The Last Time You Had Fun
Starring: Kyle Bornheimer, Eliza Coupe, Mary Elizabeth Ellis Directed by: Mo Perkins (“A Quiet Little Marriage”) Written by: Hal Haberman (“Special”) In “The Last Time You Had Fun,” two pairs of friends (or in one case siblings) who find themselves in various stages of disappointment in their relationships randomly meet at a wine bar and decide to […]
Ep. 22 – Ouija, John Wick, 23 Blast, DC seeks a female director for Wonder Woman, Avengers 2 trailer hits, Christian Bale is Steve Jobs, and what board games we’d like to see as movies
[iframe style=”border:none” src=”http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/3143503/height/100/width/480/thumbnail/yes/theme/standard” height=”100″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] Click here to download the episode! In this week’s episode of The CineSnob Podcast, the guys from CineSnob.net review “Ouija,” “John Wick,” and “23 Blast.” They also discuss DC wanting a female director for their “Wonder Woman” movie, the leak of Marvel’s “Avengers: Age […]
John Wick
“After a well-executed set-up, anything unique or higher-level gets lost in a blaze of bullets.”
Ep. 21 – Fury, The Book Of Life, Men, Women and Children, Star Trek Live, and the big movie plans by both Marvel and DC
[iframe style=”border:none” src=”http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/3128479/height/100/width/480/thumbnail/yes/theme/standard” height=”100″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] Click here to download the episode! In this week’s episode of The CineSnob Podcast, the guys from CineSnob.net discuss the Star Trek Into Darkness live symphony concert (performed by the San Antonio Symphony) that they attended. They also review “Fury,” “The Book of Life,” […]
Fury
“Succeeds is in its character designs on a very general level and in its action sequences.”
Ep. 20 – Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Kill the Messenger, all-female Ghostbusters reboot, Marvel’s domination and the future of Spider-Man, and Joe Dirt 2 comes to Crackle.
[iframe style=”border:none” src=”http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/3116304/height/100/width/480/thumbnail/yes/theme/standard” height=”100″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] Click here to download the episode! In this week’s episode of The CineSnob Podcast, the guys from CineSnob.net review “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” and “Kill the Messenger.” They also discussed the newly confirmed female led “Ghostbusters” reboot, the […]