Film Category

A remake of the 1994 cult film, The Crow, is apparently something that has been slated for a while now. Stephen Norrington (Blade, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) originally penned a screenplay, but I guess it must have sucked major ass, because we didn’t hear anything about it for a while, and now the film’s producer has come out and announced that Nick Cave is attached for a rewrite. For those unaware, Cave’s last feature-length script was a little film called The Proposition (2005), so it’s fair to say that the Internet is collectively crowing in positivity (“CAA! CAA!”) at the news.

On the surface, The Ballad of Des and Mo, “a film about love, luggage and living on the edge,” sounds like your run of the mill rom-com. It’s the way the thing’s being put together, though, that makes us sit up and take note. British writer/director James Fair and his team of loyal helpers have spent the past year planning every detail of the production, which will take place in just 72 hours on the streets of a city which, not long ago, was totally foreign to him.

In the grand tradition of such mockumentary masterminds as Christopher Guest, Gervais & Merchant and Rob Reiner comes The Mother of Invention.

WARNING: This film will cause you to cry like a baby. We’re not talking about the kind of tears that trickle silently down your cheeks, there will be sobs. It will be messy. But it will make you feel good Eliot Rausch is a writer/director/producer with a background in design and advertising, but he shows amazing chops as a documentary filmmaker. He met Jason Wood after he raised just enough money to get his beloved dog’s leg amputated after it had been ravaged by cancer, but the disease had already spread to the rest of his body. Wood made the difficult decision to get his canine friend put down.

Everybody loves those interactive play-at-home games where mom, pop and the kids or your fave selection of friends and a bottle of wine gather around the television and start screaming the answers to obscure music, film or celebrity questions, frantically bashing the Xbox controller or otherwise. Therein lies the joy of 35mm; an animated journey through film created by Sarah Biermann, Torsten Strer, Felix Meyer and Pascal Monaco.

Ever made a blooper or a blunder and accidentally slipped out a few choice words? Are you a fan of the video sensation website Youtube? (How could you not be?) If you answered yes to these two questions, then it is possible than you may have heard of “The Winnebago Man” Jack Rebney, or as he is also infamously known as “The Angriest Man in the World”.

Not quite One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, not quite the-first-few-minutes-of-Little Miss Sunshine, the new film from writer/directors of Half Nelson Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck tackles teenage depression with a few LOLs.

Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman is best known for his turn in the biopic about Truman Capote in 2005. Between then and now he’s been busy with a number of projects, none more exciting than Jack Goes Boating, his first film from behind the camera. Starring himself alongside Amy Ryan (who we, with a squeal of delight, recognised as The Office alum Holly Flax), John Ortiz and Daphne Rubin-Vega, Jack Goes Boating is the story of love and friendship surrounding two couples in New York.

The original and the best bad-girl of the alt-music scene, Peaches (or Merrill Beth Nisker to her mother) has released the video for her track Show Stopper. The 11th track from her album I Feel Cream to get the extended video treatment (Mud is the only one waiting now), Show Stopper’s video is a kind of mockumentary about life on the road and a day in the life of Peaches, a notoriously difficult subject.

Tommy Wiseau has released a sneak preview of his upcoming short film, The House That Drips Blood On Alex. Wiseau, a native New Orleanian with a somewhat misleading thick European accent, rose to fame in 2003 with The Room– a feature film he wrote, directed and starred in.