As you probably know, I’m a huge fan of Chuck Palahniuk, best known as the author of Fight Club. I’ve attended, god knows how many of his public events over the years, and got the chance to sit down with Palahniuk in Park City Utah at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival to talk about the [...]

I’m running way behind of Sundance reviews, so I’m going to a quick rapid-fire run down to get a couple films out of the way.

The plot synopsis for Adventures of Power is as interesting as you’ll find. The film follows a former mine-worker named Power, who is ridiculed in his small town for his air-drumming [...]

At last year’s Cannes My Blueberry Nights, the first English film from 2046’s Kar Wai Wong, drew a memorably tepid critical response, with songstress Norah Jones’s performance taking lots of the heat and sleet. Based on what I’ve heard from friends who have seen it, it has the potential to become the new Across the [...]

People complain that Sundance has sold out. That every film in the festival features a big name movie star or a returning filmmaker. And for the most part, that might be true. But I don’t think Sundance has sold out, at least not in the film selection. I think Independent cinema has changed into an [...]

Funny Games is not a movie I would wish upon anyone I care about. People complain about movies like Hostel and SAW, referring to them as Torture Porn, well then Funny Games is Psychological Torture Porn. And by that I mean boring, and stupid. Why anyone would remake this film I will never know. Director [...]

Earlier in the week when I ran into Jason Reitman, I asked him what he had seen. He stopped, looked me in the face, and slowly but demandingly said “American Teen”, his favorite film of the festival. I tried to attend a press screening of the film earlier in the week, but with the buzz [...]

I haven’t found much time to blog while here in Park City. I’m already way behind on my reviews already. But I thought I’d drop by and share a few interesting things that have happened:
I ran into Quentin Tarantino outside of Hell Ride at the Egyptian Theater in downtown Park City. I approached Tarantino, telling [...]

I caught the press screening of Incendiary yesterday, but I’m now reassessing the film through a whole new depressing angle. The film stars Michelle Williams as a mother who loses her husband and 4-year-old son in a suicide bombing at a North London Soccer game. Williams’ was not at the game because she was off [...]

Morgan Spurlock explains that if there is anything he has learned in over 30 years watching movies, it is that if the world needs saving, it’s best done by one man, and one man alone (usually Bruce or Arnold). You see, Spurlock wants to make the world safer for his soon to be born baby [...]

In my review of Clark Gregg’s adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel Choke (which was posted just minutes ago), I nervously wrote a plea to distributors, hoping that this film would get the big screen release that it deserves. Choke is not an easy film to market. It contains a lot of nudity and sex, [...]

I liked the last two Harry Potter films more than people who hadn’t read the books. I’ve also noticed that the only people that seemed to like The Da Vinci Code were those who had read the Dan Brown books. Is it because they were hardcore fans with too much time invested, or is it [...]

Found: Rob from Cloverfield, walking down Main Street in Park City Utah. Turns out that actor Michael Stahl David has a film at Slamdance called The Project. Glad to see that Rob made it out alive.
Disclaimer: I apologize in advance for anyone who might think of this as a spoiler. Those who have seen the [...]

“Joleen is a woman stuck in yesterday.” The trailer for Sleepwalking, the new film starring Charlize Theron, Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, Dennis Hopper and Woody Harrelson, exemplifies a terrible grasp on the power of italics. As for the rest, it’s sad to say as the cast is eclectic and has stories for days, but I’m [...]

What Just Happened? begins in a test screening for Fiercely, a new movie starring Sean Penn. The film concludes with the graphic gun-shot death of the hero and his dog, definitely not a crowd pleaser. Poor test scores prompt the studio to request a new cut of the film, but the director doesn’t want to [...]

My editor, Peter, has the Chuck Palahniuk adaptation Choke stashed in a lil’ box inside the fridge that is /Film, but he’s givin’ ‘er at Sundance (yep, it’s premiering there), so I’m raiding it. A “Meet the Filmmakers” Sundance Channel video with Choke’s first-time director, Clark Gregg, can now be seen after the jump.