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It starts in San Francisco with director Richard Lui at the bedside of his father, Stephen, near death from late-stage Alzheimer’s. Richard will be recognizable to many viewers as a news anchor on MSNBC. In flashbacks, he shows us Stephen years earlier, escorted around his neighborhood and chatting cheerily with strangers. However, the dedication already needed to look after him is very apparent. Lui’s mother sleeps on the sofa to guard against potentially harmful excursions, and his activities are frequently risky, such as trying to open tin cans with a fork, which Lui notes with a touch of surprised pride he’s rather good at....

Anyway, when I worked on it, there was a much more serious take on the concept. I still have the show bible I wrote with another producer. (I do work behind the scenes on TV as a producer/writer at times, so I’m not just the on-camera guy you see on Attack of the Show.) I worked on it as an associate producer/story editor since a buddy of mine, Arthur Borman, knew I was a total film/comic book geek....

The film concerns a prank which Konefsky organizes in the early 1980s in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It begins with some background information, portraying Bridgeport as a very poor city, located in the immediate vicinity of very wealthy communities such as Westport. In the college where Konefsky teaches, the entire faculty is fired for organizing a labor action; the school is subsequently sold to the Moonie cult and becomes a laughing stock of academia....

1. Use a Fast Computer – You can choose any computer model as long as you can store large files and focus on editing without worrying about rendering. It will help you invest in a faster storage drive (SSD) that will give you faster and lighter access to your files and applications. It also makes way for speedier loading and export times. Another thing you can do to dramatically reduce processing time is to increase your computer’s memory to at least 8 GB if you are traveling for work or travel....

Inception In 2010, director Christopher Nolan produced one of the most celebrated sci-fi action movies in history. Starring a stellar cast of Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, and many more, this time-bending film had a unique, interesting, and sometimes confusing plot for audiences to follow. According to an article on LadBible, not even Leonardo DiCaprio knew what was going on in the film. The film is packed with a great deal of action, including some of the best slow-motion action scenes ever seen....

Sarah (Naomi McDougall Jones) is a young woman down on her luck sporting an ill-advised face tattoo that looks remarkably like Mike Tyson’s. Oh, she’s also a self-professed vampire, not in a mythic sense (she cannot shapeshift), but she does need to regularly feed on human blood in order to function. Sarah lives with two women her age (also vampires) in a small New York apartment that also serves as a church for her small unit of bloodsuckers....

Written by Josep Ciutat, our hero is David (Jackson Rathbone), the owner of a failing bookstore. David is a periodic purest and refuses to carry books that please the messes with junk food stories, such as Fifty Shades of Grey. One day, his mother, Clara (Carol Halstead), reveals that his unknown father, who left him as an infant, recently died and left him a two-million-dollar mansion in the Dominican Republic....

Among the residents of the Hwang Gung Apartments are a young married couple, Min-seong (Park Seo-joon) and Myeong-hwa (Park Bo-young). After a freak earthquake levels the Korean metropolis of Seoul, Hawng Gung’s inhabitants soon realize they reside in the only standing building left. As tensions rise due to overpopulation, the apartment residents elect the mysterious but capable Young-tak (Lee Byung-hun) to act as their delegate and leader. Foremost, the core suite of actors all deliver genuinely powerful performances throughout Concrete Utopia....

Alas, Fiennes is ultimately betrayed by problematic source material (there is just so much cutting you can get away with) and his own off-course performance as the doomed general. Boasting a shaved head and a troubled gaze, Fiennes seems to reaching into Marlon Brando’s “Apocalypse Now” territory as a military genius gone awry. But his performance never truly clicks (those surplus close-ups of his stark gaze become a bore), and the genuine sense of tragedy that Shakespeare invested in the character is absent in this mannered performance....

A quick glance reveals that all four tires on their car have been flattened. Darm and Evo flee back inside. They discover the landline phone is dead. They’re both terrified of going outside for fear of the dog and his owner. They pass a long, sleepless night peering into the darkness, jumping at every sound, sure that their doors will be beaten down at any moment by a MAGA mob with torches and pitchforks....

Don’t Tell Larry is a well-crafted indie comedy caper that plays upon the most basic of office work life and connects to anyone who has ever worked in an office. Loaded with laughs, gasps, and cringes, directors Greg Porper and John Schimke spare nothing, building drama to the brink of getting caught along with unavoidable situations to hide the truth, including drinking urine and the ousting behaviors of a blind-sniffing Nana....

Joe (James Glen Tucker) has debilitating agoraphobia after two near-fatal attacks. In fact, he barely leaves his room in the house he shares with his roommates. During a dinner with friends, he emerges but is twitchy and on edge. This opening is awkward at best and clumsy at worst. Joe comes across as less afraid of the outside and more as a person who hates people. That is hardly the intention, but by cloistering the character in his room and not focusing on the outside much, his issues don’t match what viewers are told is wrong with Joe....

Okay, I haven’t seen Snakes on a Plane yet, but I will later today… (going to the Grove in LA this evening). Anyway, Pete Vonder Haar’s review on Film Threat gives the movie five stars! He mentions several things I had already suspected, here’s a few quotes: “It has the potential to supplant The Rocky Horror Picture Show as the greatest audience participation movie of all time.” “It is, simultaneously, one of the worst and best movies Ive ever seen....

If the filmmaker is creating a “Detective Falk universe” here, perhaps his adventures would have been better suited for TV, a True Detective-like series, each season self-contained. The last one was dry; this one’s wet. It makes more sense as a show. As a feature, it feels both compressed and listless, floundering between multiple storylines and getting bogged down in the unearned gravitas of it all. That said, it does have moments of real tension, and its ensemble cast keeps you invested....

Black Colombian activist and community leader Francia Márquez has been fighting for her disenfranchised community for over a decade — facing down multinational corporations trying to evict her community to mine gold, navigating paramilitary groups conducting clandestine slaughters in La Toma, and lashing out against Columbian institutions and leaders who don’t care for the plights of marginalized populations. While Igualada was not produced by Márquez and her fellow activists, it has many hallmarks of a traditional campaign promo without the abundance of rhetorical fluff on which such promos are built....

Chase Kuertz’s short film In Aggression does a good job of masking its narrative to protect against too much predictability or lack of mystery. For much of the film, we don’t entirely know why John is keeping information regarding his wife’s killer from the cops. Was it truly a tragic accident, or something else? Regardless, what does John ultimately plan on doing with what he knows, or thinks he knows, due to his own investigation?...

Migrant Sea: Jenni tells the tale of how Jenni Traoré first arrived in Italy, what he did to survive, and ultimately, what became of him. That he is relating his story to us is a clue that there will be a positive resolution to this particular installment. I found this brief documentary to be very candid and earnest. The subject clearly understands his place in the world and how lucky he is to have thrived in France....

After a car accident befalls a popular influencer, Zoe (Cory Anne Roberts), a young and upcoming social media influencer, is given a spot in the model house. The reception from Nadia (Kyra Santoro) and the other models is welcoming, given the sudden demise of the previous occupant. Zoe is awkward, very awkward, and she’s aware of this. But her desire to be a model pushes her forward. That evening, with all the models back at the house after a number of photo shoots, things get a little crazy....

“Troll 2” is widely considered to be one of the best bad movies ever made, a film so inept and unintentionally hilarious, that fans quickly embraced it as camp. With filmmaking that makes Ed Wood look like Orson Welles, “Troll 2” reigned for years as the #1 lowest-rated movie on imdb.com. It recently screened to sold-out audiences in Austin and New York. Released in 1990, “Troll 2” has nothing to do with the original “Troll....

Origin is based on the 2020 book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor plays the book’s author, Isabel Wilkerson. The film follows Wilkerson’s travels around the world to research Caste. Her central thesis is that throughout human history, the greatest atrocities against mankind have some interconnected tissue that binds them all together. She hypothesizes that racism in America was not about race, but it found its roots in the Caste system, which was first codified in India....