LAFF Archives – Nerd Report

LAFF Interview: Franz Drameh and Kierston Wareing on A Hundred Streets and Legends of Tomorrow

July 1, 2016

A Hundred Streets premiered at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival. The British film is an ensemble piece starring Idris Elba and Gemma Arterton as a couple dealing with infidelity, Franz Drameh as a gang member... Read More...

LAFF Review: Paint It Black Is A Dark Directorial Debut

Fred Topel

June 28, 2016

Movies, Review

The directorial debut of Amber Tamblyn premiered at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival. Based on the novel by Janet Fitch, Paint It Black stars Alia Shawkat and Janet McTeer in bravura performances within a ... Read More...

LAFF Interview: Play the Devil Director Maria Govan and Stars Petrice Jones and Gareth Jenkins

Fred Topel

June 16, 2016

Interview, Interviews, Movies

Play the Devil was one film at the Los Angeles Film Festival that really made me feel like I was discovering a new world and new talent. Set in Trinidad, it was a region I’d never explored. Also new to me were ... Read More...

LAFF Interview: Barbara Crampton, Jackson Stewart and the Cast of Beyond the Gates

Fred Topel

June 16, 2016

Interview, Interviews, Movies

Beyond the Gates won the Los Angeles Film Festival’s Nightfall Award for director Jackson Stewart, so I’m glad I talked to Stewart and his cast when they were in L.A. Chase Williamson and Graham Skipper play br... Read More...

LAFF Review: Sensitivity Training is Real Anger Management

Fred Topel

June 15, 2016

Movies, Review

Adam Sandler made a movie called Anger Management that wasn't really about anger management. He played a soft spoken character who was sent to anger management through a crazy misunderstanding. This is real ang... Read More...

LAFF Interview: Jim O’Hanlon and Leon Butler on A Hundred Streets

Fred Topel

June 15, 2016

Interview, Interviews, Movies

A Hundred Streets is set and filmed in London but it had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The ensemble drama tells three story. Max (Idris Elba) and Emily (Gemma Arteron) play a couple deali... Read More...

LAFF Review: Lights Out – Ambitious Horror

Fred Topel

June 9, 2016

Nerd Stuff

Lights Out has a strong premise for a horror movie and executes scares like a horror master. If you saw the short on YouTube, director David F. Sandberg and screenwriter Eric Heisserer have honed that concept a... Read More...

LAFF Review: Play the Devil – A Real Discovery

Fred Topel

June 6, 2016

Movies, Review

Play the Devil is the kind of movie you get to see at a film festival where you really feel like you’ve been brought into a world you wouldn’t otherwise see, and discover new talent that Hollywood may be overlo... Read More...

LAFF Review: Beyond the Gates – A Horror Jumanji

Fred Topel

June 6, 2016

Movies, Review

You may know me as Franchise Fred because I love sequels, but I am also Format Fred because I am obsessed with outdated viewing formats. My real Jones is for things far more obscure than VHS, like RCA Selectavi... Read More...

LAFF Review: Officer Downe – Officer Downer

Fred Topel

June 6, 2016

Review

Officer Downe lost me immediately at the Orgasm Counter, which is in the second scene of the movie. That is such a male fantasy about sexual prowess, that the counter goes into double digits, I knew this was go... Read More...

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