Fits and Starts is an indie version of those movies where a bad night keeps escalating, like After Hours or Adventures in Babysitting. Only since it’s about a bunch of pretentious artists, the only escalating danger is smugness. David Warwick (Wyatt Cenac) is a struggling author who’s married to published author Jennifer Lee (Greta Lee). […]
Tom Cruise came to South by Southwest, if only virtually. The Mummy VR Experience is set up in Ballroom B of the Austin Convention Center. It’s not just a preview of the upcoming summer movie. Cruise wanted fans to feel what he felt in the film’s plane crash sequence. On your way through the queue […]
Since moviemaking technology has advanced, filmmakers have been attempting new techniques to engage the audience. I think a philosophical mistake has been to make movies approximate real life more, whether with 3D picture or more chaotic cinematography. Movies aren’t supposed to look like real life. The camera is not our eyes. The camera is a […]
January 5 sees more than four horror movies hit Blu-ray. I don’t know what it is about the first week of January. I didn’t even get The Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse or some of the catalog titles, but I can review the three from universal and the SXSW hit Deathgasm. Deathgasm Deathgasm is […]