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  LA Film Fest Review: “Teddy Bear”

  July 6, 2012 at 2:53 pm / Drama, Film Festivals, Foreign, LA Film Fest 2012, LAFF, LAFF 2012

  A quasi sequel to a festival-favorite short named “Dennis,” Teddy Bear is a portrait of a man who is, for all intents and purposes, a 38-year-old child.  A bodybuilder of enormous stature, Dennis would be intimidating to those around him, except, as the title suggests, he’s really just a big, adorable teddy bear.  But his peaceful demeanor belies a serious issue: his overbearing mother.  Small in size but huge on manipulation, she constantly undermines Dennis, preventing him from developing the [...]

  

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• Interview: “Brave” press conference – Kelly Macdonald, Kevin Kidd and Craig Ferguson

  June 22, 2012 at 9:48 pm / Interviews, LAFF, LAFF 2012

  Pixar’s latest film opens this weekend nationwide. a beautifully animated film about a Scottish princess, Merida. Our own Morgan Rojas was lucky enough to take part in the press day held in Los Angeles earlier this week. And you are lucky that Morgan captured the entire press conference on video. Below, Kelly Macdonald, Kevin McKidd and Craig Ferguson share their thoughts on turning their “mums” into animals.

   

  Brave interview with the cast:

  

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  LA Film Fest Review: “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World “

  June 21, 2012 at 7:49 pm / Comedy, Drama, Film Festivals, LA Film Fest 2012, LAFF 2012, Romance

  Writer/director Lorena Scafaria’s directorial debut Seeking a Friend for the End of the World pits two seemingly incongruous film concepts together: an impending-disaster film and an adult-oriented romantic comedy — sort of Melancholia with a laugh track. Steve Carell plays Dodge, an insurance salesman whose life was perfectly bland before someone discovered a giant asteroid on a collision course with our planet.  His wife, in response to the news that all hope is lost, leaves her husband (presumably so she can [...]

  

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  Three LA Film Fest Reviews – Documentary “Vampira and Me,” Cuban Zombie Comedy “Juan of the Dead,” and Indie “Pincus”

  June 18, 2012 at 7:44 am / Comedy, Documentary, Film Festivals, Foreign, Horror, LA Film Fest 2012, LAFF, LAFF 2012, Uncategorized

  Vampira and Me (U.S.A.2012 – 106 minutes – Director: R.H. Greene)
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  In 1953, Maila Nurmi attended a Hollywood costume ball as the Morticia Adams character from the New Yorker cartoons, hoping she could convince an executive to make a television program based on the Adams Family.  Ahead of her time (it would take ABC another 10 years to finally make that program), Nurmi still captured the attention of a producer, but he didn’t want her to star as Mortician Adams; [...]

  

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  LA Film Fest Movie Review: William Friedkin’s “Killer Joe”

  June 16, 2012 at 7:06 pm / Comedy, Crime, Drama, LA Film Fest 2012, LAFF, LAFF 2012, Thriller, Uncategorized

   

  For anyone who has ever contemplated what Blue Velvet might have been like had Lynch directed it as a dark comedy, William Friedkin’s Killer Joe was made for you.  Adapted for the screen by playwright Tracy Letts (Bug; August: Osage County) from his own stage play, Killer Joe is a pitch-black comedy that is so depraved, some will probably be offended by even classifying it a comedy.  That being said, if you cannot find humor in on-screen violence, or if [...]

  

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  LA Film Fest Movie Review: “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

  June 15, 2012 at 7:00 pm / Drama, Fantasy, Film Festivals, LA Film Fest 2012, LAFF 2012

  The central location of Beasts of the Southern Wild is the mythical Bathtub, a bayou community separated from a Southern Louisiana city by the levee that protects it. At the heart of the film, the Bathtub is both familiar and foreign, a land of elevated homes made from discarded materials. Not quite fact or fiction, much like a child’s imaginative understanding of the world, Beasts of the Southern Wild exists in this twilight realm between waking and dream, removed just [...]

  

  

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