Here’s the headline, in our interview with Josh Ruben writer/director/star of the new feature SCARE ME, Rob is 95% sure Josh tells him he’s good looking. To be sure, you’ll need to listen for yourself. For added hilarity, you can see the live reaction when Rob *thinks* that Josh tells him he’s good looking. Imagine when Charlie sees that he’s found the golden ticket. So SCARE ME… Two writers of varying […]
Here’s the headline, in our interview with Josh Ruben writer/director/star of the new feature SCARE ME, Rob is 95% sure Josh tells him he’s good looking. To be sure, you’ll need to listen for yourself. For added hilarity, you can see the live reaction when Rob *thinks* that Josh tells him he’s good looking. Imagine when Charlie sees that he’s found the golden ticket. So SCARE ME… Two writers of varying […]
For more (that’s more positive) about Scare Me, check out Rob & Carrie’s interview with writer-director-star Josh Ruben! It is inordinately easy to root for Scare Me (one of two films by that title with extremely similar loglines released in 2020; this is the one picked up by the streaming service Shudder as an exclusive). The feature debut writer-director Josh Ruben, formerly of CollegeHumor, is an extremely good-faith attempt to […]
Finally time to put 2015 to bed – a hugely rewarding one for me personally, and a pretty terrific one at the movies, too. Here follows my favorite bits and pieces of all the movies I saw. My apologies for going into much, much less detail than I have in years past: it was write a little or write nothing at all, and it’s already so close to May that […]
The 50th Chicago International Film Festival is over. Here, the record of all the things I saw at CIFF this year, with links to reviews. Thursday, 9 October, 2014 – OPENING NIGHT 7:00PM- Miss Julie (Liv Ullmann, Norway / UK) Not only does Ullmann fail to bring cinematic language into the foundational stage classic by August Strindberg, she seems actively anxious to avoid any such effort to expand and reconceive […]
There’s a movie that Gangster Squad wants to be, and it would be so wonderful if it had managed to carry it off: clearly, there was a point where the intent was to make a movie according to all the very best clichés and worn-out tropes of a 1940s crime movie – the film being set in 1949 and all – but using the techniques and freedom of a film […]
Today, the occupation-war in Iraq is five years old. During this war, there have been 3990 US military fatalities, 308 military fatalities among the other coalition armies, and a yet-uncalculated number of Iraqi civilian causalities: as few as 80,000, as many as 10 times that. These figures have all been taken from the Iraq Coalition Casualties Count and Iraq Body Count. For perspective, here is a list of the US […]
