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REVIEW: Hagane no renkinjutsushi: Mirosu no seinaru hoshi [Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos] [2011]

REVIEW: Underworld: Awakening [2012]

0 Comments 21 January 2012

• “My heart isn’t cold, it’s broken” I like dark, sci-fi actioners and I’m unafraid to admit it. I’ve seen every Underworld and Resident Evil in the theatre and anticipate continuing that trend until their respective series die. My interest in each comes from different motivations, though. No matter how cheesy and overly stylish the [...]

documentary, film reviews

REVIEW: The Interrupters [2011]

0 Comments 20 January 2012

• “Tell my mom I said high” Until you’ve been there, you can’t understand. This is the theory behind those who call themselves The Interrupters in Steve James‘ new documentary. A group of former high ranking gang members from the streets of Chicago, these men and women meet to brainstorm and come up with solutions [...]

design, marketing collateral, portfolio

DESIGN: FC Buffalo – Our City, Our Sport, Our Club

0 Comments 20 January 2012

• The email said, “My idea is pretty simple and I know you can make it kick butt.” So I had to take the job. It was Nick Mendola and FC Buffalo looking to get a t-shirt made with the text, “Our City, Our Sport, Our Club”. The concept called for making the first ‘O’ [...]

documentary, family, film reviews

REVIEW: Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey [2011]

0 Comments 18 January 2012

• “Kevin comes alive through Elmo” I was a Jim Henson kid growing up in the 80s. The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and “The Jim Henson Hour” were staples in my household and I even made my parents take me to see The Witches theatrically at eight. But where I enjoyed the stories and fantastical places [...]

drama, film reviews, shorts, suspense/thriller

REVIEW: The Empty Playground [2010]

0 Comments 17 January 2012

• “I can’t get you out of my mind” You could learn a whole lot about a person by showing them Phil Giordano‘s The Empty Playground and asking what he/she thought. Are you one who sees the good in people and metaphors of a lost child unable to be saved or does your cynical nature [...]

drama, film reviews

REVIEW: Things I Don’t Understand [2011]

0 Comments 16 January 2012

• “Tomorrow doesn’t exist until it’s today” Faith is defined as believing without seeing. We give so much impetus to its use on the afterlife that it’s easy to forget the need for such fidelity in ourselves. The question of what happens when we die is one people love to debate because we all hold [...]

documentary, film reviews

REVIEW: The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 [2011]

0 Comments 15 January 2012

• “In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none” In 1972 the United States broke ties with Sweden as their media equated the bombings of Hanoi to Nazism and shortly before that TV Guide’s editor wrote an exposé about the Anti-American sentiments the Scandinavian country was [...]

film reviews, suspense/thriller

REVIEW: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [2011]

1 Comment 13 January 2012

• “Smiley leaves with me” When I first heard about Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy I didn’t think it had a chance of living up to my expectations. It possessed an all-star cast, was director Tomas Alfredson‘s English-language follow-up to the brilliant Let the Right One In, and was adapted from an espionage thriller by John [...]

action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction, western

REVIEW: Serenity [2005]

0 Comments 12 January 2012

• “Love keeps her in the air when she ought to fall down” Seven years after hitting the theatre cold to watch what appeared to be a unique sci-fi space western, Joss Whedon‘s Serenity proves much more powerful and lush with a couple “Firefly” viewings under my belt. The film that should not have been—Fox [...]

drama, film reviews

REVIEW: Albert Nobbs [2011]

0 Comments 12 January 2012

• “Life without decency is unbearable” I really enjoy films residing in the duplicitous limbo between aristocracy’s flights of fancy and the laborers at their beck and call. Rodrigo García‘s Albert Nobbs is the latest of such endeavors containing a little of its own singular intrigue as the dark secret of a meek little man’s [...]

drama, film reviews, musical/concert

REVIEW: Joyful Noise [2012]

0 Comments 10 January 2012

• “Tap it and die” For a film about a gospel choir and the push and pull of faith within its singers’ lives, Joyful Noise has a funny way of getting its message of love and hope across. I understand it’s 2012 and we must show a progressive slant on the church in order to [...]

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