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STAFF REPORTS
Director Marc Webb, who helmed the Zooey Deschanel romantic comedy, “(500) Nights,” will be in attendance at the opening night screening of his film during this year’s RiverRun International Film Festival, held in Winston-Salem, N.C.
ModernFilmZine will be posting several interviews over the next few weeks, including Tommy Chong, Unknown Hinson, and Chris Browning, who is featured in the new “Terminator: Salvation” movie.
Tommy Chong interview to publish, Friday, April 10: In the interview Chong discusses his new animated feature film, “Cheech and Chong’s Smokin’ Animated Movie,” as well as the first time he got high, his love of Lenny Bruce and why he dislikes Disney so much.
Unknown Hinson interview to publish, Friday, April 17: Music performer and animated voice actor, Unknown Hinson, provides one of the characters for the Adult Swim show “Squidbillies.” During his interview he talks about how he is not a vampire, and how he was framed for murder when he worked as a singer at a carnival.
Chris Browning/”Terminator: Salvation” interview series to publish, April 24, 25, and 26: Browning was featured in “3:10 to Yuma”and will be acting in the Denzel Washington/Gary Oldman film, “Book of Eli.” He discusses his time on those movies as well as working on the highly anticipated “Terminator.” His stories will be included in a three part series.
The director of the popular animated “Hellboy: Blood & Iron” is slated to helm an animated version of the epic poem, “Dante’s Inferno,” about the nine levels of Hell.
Victor Cook, who is also a producer on “The Spectacular Spider-Man” will be working off of a script by Brandon Auman, a writer for “Iron Man: Armored Adventures.”
A Muslim-American filmmaker detained by American Homeland Security has turned his story into a 70 minute documentary that explores the ordeal he endured as a terrorist suspect after returning from Iran where he filmed people interested in break-dancing.
The heavy metal band, Iron Maiden, is the focus of a new documentary the best music documentary award at the SXSW Film & Music Festival in Austin, Texas and will be released in theaters in April.
The film, “Flight 666,” won the “24 Beats Per Second,” award at the film festival.
This dance number served as an intro to the screening of Night of the Living Dead at the American Zombie – George Romero Film Revolution. Stay tuned for related video segments of Q & A with Romero. Enjoy.
This brutally sardonic film is a dark gem I ran across thanks to Mountain Xpress film critic and mentor, Ken Hanke.
I’d never heard about the movie until he mentioned it and when I went to read the back of the DVD cover and discovered it was about a man in advertising who grows a boil that quickly turns into another head filled with evil thoughts… well I just HAD to give it a try.
And I am glad I did. Hanke had already seen the movie recently so we screened it without him, but DAMN if I wished he hadn’t been sitting in the theater so I could ask production questions, because of just how weird this movie is.
Michael Knox, the director of “Tearing Down the Tent,” and Martin Ramsey, the editor on the circus documentary, worked with the Kannapolis, N.C. newspaper, the Independent Tribune, to develop a series of mini documentaries on Pillowtex.
Shot for about $1,000, the ultra low budget “My Sixteenth Summer,” marks the film debut of director Savvy Lorestani’s who will screen the movie March 29 at the 11th Annual Method Fest Independent Film Festival in Calabasas, Calif.
Filmed in Atlanta, Ga., “My Sixteenth Summer” is a coming of age story about the ups and downs of being 16-years-old in suburbia, according to a news release. The movie centers around Samir (Ali Degan), an Iranian-American teenager, he struggles with all the pressures, highlights and disappointments of adolescence.
The only thing you need to know about “Knowing” is that you do not need to spend $9 to see this waste of celluloid chaos.
This was a movie I really tried not to hate, because the basic premise was pretty good. But a good premise does not lead to a good film.
The one thing I can say good about this movie is at least Nicholas Cage’s hair cut this time around didn’t look like a Tribble that had been run over by a Mack truck and then quickly put trough the washer and dryer — a look he sported in the even more miserable “Bangkok Dangerous.”
