PIF: Dead Ducks and Keep on Rolling Reviews (Paolo Kagaoan)

Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival 2012 Dead Ducks (2012) Directed by Brenda Longfellow I caught a screening for the Planet in Focus film festival, beginning with a short called Dead Ducks, which is less self-explanatory than I assumed. It begins with x-rays that only shows the skeletal structure of the ducks. However, a narratorContinue reading “PIF: Dead Ducks and Keep on Rolling Reviews (Paolo Kagaoan)”

The Perks of Being a Wallflower Review (Paolo Kagaoan)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) Starring Logan Lerman, Nina Dobrev, Kate Walsh, Dylan McDermott, Melanie Lynskey, Emma Watson, Mae Whitman, Ezra Miller, Paul Rudd, Joan Cusack and Johnny Simmons Directed by Stephen Chbosky I read Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being A Wallflower, the source material to the movie of the same nameContinue reading “The Perks of Being a Wallflower Review (Paolo Kagaoan)”

TIFF 2012: Clip and Picture Day Reviews (Kirk Haviland)

Clip (2012) Starring Isidora Simijonovic, Vukašin Jasnic, Sanja Mikitišin, Jovo Makisc and Monja Savic Written and Directed by Maja Milos Jasna (Simijonovic) is a teenage girl living in the poor suburbs in the south of Belgrade, Serbia. She, like many girls her age, likes to record everything around her using a mobile phone camera. SheContinue reading “TIFF 2012: Clip and Picture Day Reviews (Kirk Haviland)”

Keep The Lights On Review (Paolo Kagaoan)

Keep The Lights On (2012) Starring Thure Lindhart and Zachary Booth Directed by Ira Sachs This is the gay world in 1998 in New York City, where the clubs were gritty, a community feeling the major effects of HIV, when bathhouses and sex clubs are illegal, a world that has yet to discover Manhunt andContinue reading “Keep The Lights On Review (Paolo Kagaoan)”

Sinister Review (Kirk Haviland)

Sinister (2012) Starring Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Michael Hall D’Addario, Clare Foley, Fred Dalton Thompson and James Ransone Written by C. Robert Cargill and Scott Derrickson Directed by Scott Derrickson In theaters this weekend from Alliance Films, just in time for Halloween, we get the newest horror title from director Scott Derrickson, the director ofContinue reading “Sinister Review (Kirk Haviland)”