Amoeba will be holding FREE screenings of music-related films every Monday in the Month of March. Along with the free screening, there will be FREE Izze Soda and FREE popcorn at the Snack Bar! The first screening takes place THIS MONDAY, March 2nd at 9 pm, in the courtyard of Space15Twenty, just up the street [...]
Welcome to The Moving Arts’ first ever film podcast! This week, we review Henry Sellick’s Coraline, as well as the Jean Claude Van Damme Film Lionheart, and the ’92 high school caveman classic, Encino Man. Yes, we know the sound quality kind of sucks–we’re working on it. Enjoy! Click Here To Listen to the Show
Tallgrass Film Festival Press Release – 2/23/2009: The Wichita Association for the Motion Picture Arts (WAMPA) and the Tallgrass Film Festival announced their call for submissions for the 7th Annual Tallgrass Film Festival to be held October 22-25 in Wichita, Kansas at the Warren Old Town Theatres and other downtown venues. Over the last six [...]
The 81st Annual Academy Awards wrapped up just a few hours ago with few surprises. Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle’s little film about a young Indian boy rising from Mumbai’s notorious slums to win a world-famous game show swept the awards winning eight of its ten nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. Heath Ledger, the [...]
Stephen King is an oddity in the writing world. Over 70 films and television shows have been adapted from his work. That’s more than any other living author. What’s so incredible about that figure is that he’s primarily a genre writer–in a genre that’s not even particularly popular. According to a paper published in 1998 [...]
Let’s face it, Hollywood’s horror sector has seen better days. Virtually all recent horror films are either directed by a hack who thinks dutch angles are a good substitute for actual direction, or are so devoid of substance that they resort to grotesque and meaningless carnage thinking this equates to scariness. While both of these [...]
Billed as a “unique feature documentary event,” The People VS. George Lucas is a new film slated to be released in 2010. George Lucas is indisputably one of cinema’s most polarizing figures and this documentary apparently aims to demystify the man–the empire, all while giving jaded fanboys an outlet to decry the man who some [...]
Sudden deaths, fabricated environments, false protagonists, and red herrings are all part of the same cinematic device–the plot twist. Used to shock audiences, maintain interest, or at it’s best to tell a deeper story, the plot twist has become a permanent fixture in Hollywood. Unfortunately, the reliance on this device seems to have grown proportional to [...]
