One of the great things about having an Alamo Drafthouse in your town is that they do all kinds of screenings of movies that aren’t your typical, awards-worthy fare, and they do them up right — with unbridled campy, enthusiasm.
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With the release of BFI’s 2012 Sight & Sound Critics’ list of the Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time, and their 2012 Sight & Sound Directors’ Top Ten, everyone has gone list crazy. What are your faves of all time?
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Saturday night Kansas City excitedly waited for the very first Mondo event at the new Alamo Drafthouse Mainstreet, a sold-out screening of ‘The Goonies.’
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Trey Hock interviews Margo Martindale, an actress known for her roles on FX’s Justified, and the movies Million Dollar Baby and Win Win. Martindale talks with Trey about her new movie ‘Scalene.’
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Trey talks to Matt Harfield and Wyatt Garfield about what it’s like to work with a committed crew that is responsible for one of the best films so far in 2012.
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Whit Stillman’s witty, talky films ‘Metropolitan’ and ‘The Last Days of Disco’ are subject to an inordinate amount of critical dismissal, but on Criterion Blu-ray, they look like low-key classics.
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The superhero movie genre is still a pretty new one, and there haven’t been too many perfect movies yet, but at the rate they are being produced, this list could look very different in just a couple of years. Here’s my list of Top 10 Superhero Movies. What would you add? What should have been left off? What are you looking forward to?
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The overall result of ‘To Rome with Love’ is a funny film whose contrivances make no excuses for themselves, and whose jokes have a substance that a viewer could ponder for sometime after leaving the theatre.
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If you love Anderson’s previous work, you’ll be very happy with ‘Moonrise Kingdom.’ If you’ve been on the fence about his films since ‘Rushmore,’ then if you can make it through the first half you should be happy with the final half.
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If you’ve always been attracted to the allure of the New York rom-com, then you may have a new indie favorite in ‘Lola Versus.’
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Could Abraham Lincoln possibly have been a vampire hunter? Our resident history expert takes a look at the facets of ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ that were right and oh so wrong in this historical analysis of the silly, over-the-top action fantasy movie.
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In honor of Friday’s show and the 2012 US Air Guitar season, I present to you the Top 10 U.S. Air Guitarists of All-Time.
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Director Stephen Gyllenhaal was in town with the star of his newest picture, Jason Biggs, who both sat down with me for a few moments to talk about Grassroots, their newest film about politics in Seattle, and what it means to live a non-cynical life in an election year.
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Once Ms. Spacek appeared, this pale, twitchy throng surged forward against the dividing ropes, and pressed polite journalists ever closer to a point where tripod and camera-bag beatings seemed inevitable.
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‘Game of Werewolves’ screened at the at the 2012 Seattle International Film Festival and I was lucky enough not only to review the film, but to snag a quick video interview with director Juan Martinez Moreno!
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