Memory Lane (DVD review).
‘Memory Lane’ is a low-budget movie reputedly made for $300 and it shows. There are moments when sound and picture
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Cinematic Storytelling by Jennifer Van Sijll (book review).
Author and scriptwriting teacher Jennifer Van Sijll explains from the start that her book, ‘Cinematic Storytelling’, is more to do
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Chappie: The Art Of The Movie by Neill Blomkamp and Peter E. Aperlo (book review).
As I’m still getting acquainted with Chappie, the robot star of this self-named film, I thought what better way than
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Birdman: or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance (2014) (film review).
Riggan, an actor, is famous for having played the popular but not very challenging role of Birdman several years earlier.
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Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (first trailer).
Ethan and his Mission Impossible team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate, an International rogue organization
Read MoreMad Max: Fury Road trailer . . . Japanese style.
Mad Max: Fury Road goes all operatic for the Japanese trailer, but they keep the voice-track as English, which makes
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Sleep Dealer (2008) (a film retrospective by Mark R. Leeper).
In what is perhaps twenty years into the future, a small village near Oaxaca is dying because a foreign corporation
Read MoreAvengers Age of Ultron: second TV spot (trailer).
And more Marvel-related mayhem when the Avengers take on a Stark-designed A.I that is to proud to bow down before
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The Walking Deceased (2015) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
‘The Walking Deceased’ is a wildly uneven zombie film parody. It takes a lot of pot shots at other familiar
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Anime director Isao Takahata talks about founding Studio Ghibli and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya.
Acclaimed director Isao Takahata’s first film in fourteen years is the Academy Award nominated The Tale of The Princess Kaguya. In
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