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Review: Super 8
In Super 8, J.J. Abrams has blended all of the appealing aspects of blockbusters (kids, nostalgia, only bad people die) and omitted the unsavory ones. He’s Spielberged his film and is the better for it.
Super 8 | Review
Oppression From the Inner Child: Abrams Borrows, Steals and Pays Homage to 80's Icon
SXSW 2011: Robert Platshorn (a.k.a Bobby Tuna) Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja
‘I’m an old pitchman, and I’m a pretty good storyteller.’ So says Robert Platshorn, one of the subjects in Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja, a new documentary by Cocaine Cowboys director by Billy Corben. The film, which had its world premiere at SXSW, depicts the proliferation of marijuana smuggling into Florida in the 1970s through three distinct stories.
SXSW 2011: Interview with Victoria Mahoney and Zoe Kravitz (Yelling to the Sky)
‘I think a lot of people miss that life is crazy and rugged and messy,’ writer/director Victoria Mahoney said when talking about her new film Yelling to the Sky. The film, which had its U.S. premiere at SXSW (this, follows Sweetness O’Hara (Zoe Kravitz) through her battles with a compromised family life, the abuses she suffers at school, and her own inner conflict as a young woman.
SXSW 2011: Interview with Brian Cano (A Bag of Hammers)
Brian Cano, the filmmaker behind the SXSW-selected A Bag of Hammers describes his two leading men Ben (Jason Ritter) and Alan (co-writer Jake Sandvig) as ‘the last people you would want to leave your car with, much less your kid.’ Alas, while stealing cars through their fake valet service, Ben and Alan end up caring for Kelsey (Chandler Canterbury), a young boy with a negligent, if well-meaning mother (Carrie Preston). Alan’s sister Mel (Rebecca Hall) provides the only voice of reason in this world of impulsive men.
