Oleh Arnold

08 June 2014

Posted: 08 Jun 2014 03:00 AM PDT

Evrim Ersoy and Alex Kidd have been conducting the Duke Mitchell Film Club for six years now, showing obscure trailers, bizarre shorts, mind-boggling music videos and strange features to a captive audience. Now, they've expanded it to the first ever 4-day DukeFest Zero! From Sunday June 30th to Wednesday July 2nd, at the Prince Charles Cinema and the Phoenix Artists Club, there will be music, a program of crazy trailers, the European premiere of My Name is Jonah, and a 30th anniversary screening of that one-and-one sci fi Nazi musical Strangers in Paradise. Details and schedule are in the press release below, and there are some trailers to wet your appetite.Welcome to DukeFest Zero, the first-ever Duke Mitchell Film Club film festival! We've assembled 4-nights...

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Distrital 2014 Review: THE HAMSTERS Defines A Dysfunctional Family

Posted: 07 Jun 2014 05:00 PM PDT

The Hamsters (Los Hámsters) is the thesis film of CCC student Gilberto González Penilla. Right from the beginning, you understand what the director is trying to achieve with it, as he makes you look at an average Mexican family during the first moments of a normal weekday. The father goes to work, the teenage son gets into a harmless morning fight with his sister, and the mother prepares the breakfast. Everything seems to be normal but we (the audience) get to see certain details that clearly indicate the contrary (i.e. the son steals some money from his mom). For the next 70 minutes, the movie will expose the reality of each member of the family, by following them for a complete day. Therefore, it lacks...

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ANT-MAN: Peyton Reed To Direct, Adam McKay To Write

Posted: 07 Jun 2014 03:50 PM PDT

Two weeks after Edgar Wright's departure, Marvel has released a statement (through its website) confirming that Peyton Reed is the new director of Ant-Man. Wright was attached to the project since 2006 and wrote the script together with Attack the Block's Joe Cornish. Adam McKay, who during the previous weeks was mentioned as the possible substitute director, is now contributing to the film's script. Director Reed has worked on television and directed such feature films as Yes Man (starring Jim Carrey), The Break-Up (with Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn), and Down with Love (the one featuring Renée Zellweger). He's definitely a comedy guy, though at some point he was attached to develop the 2005 Fantastic Four movie. On the other hand, McKay is best known...

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