Predators (15)
(Nimród Antal, 2010, Us) Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Trejo. 107 mins.
Twenty-three years and three sequels after the original, the sub-Alien sci-fi movie at last gets a proper follow-up, and even if Brody barely has the bulk to fill one of Schwarzenegger's combat boots, this serves up the semi-guilty action pleasures you'd demand. Brody is one of a gang of random human badasses who wind up in a strange jungle and realise they're now training material for apprentice alien badasses. So who will survive to be the, er, worst ass?
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (12A)
(David Slade, 2010, Us) Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner. 124 mins.
Another teen-conquering exercise in sexless erotica, but at least there's an actual film around it this time. A new vampire threat and Bella's love triangle won't be enough to entice newcomers, but fans will enjoy the unconsummated fantasy thrills they crave.
(Nimród Antal, 2010, Us) Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Trejo. 107 mins.
Twenty-three years and three sequels after the original, the sub-Alien sci-fi movie at last gets a proper follow-up, and even if Brody barely has the bulk to fill one of Schwarzenegger's combat boots, this serves up the semi-guilty action pleasures you'd demand. Brody is one of a gang of random human badasses who wind up in a strange jungle and realise they're now training material for apprentice alien badasses. So who will survive to be the, er, worst ass?
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (12A)
(David Slade, 2010, Us) Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner. 124 mins.
Another teen-conquering exercise in sexless erotica, but at least there's an actual film around it this time. A new vampire threat and Bella's love triangle won't be enough to entice newcomers, but fans will enjoy the unconsummated fantasy thrills they crave.
- 7/9/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Last year, American critics pretty fairly stood aghast and in awe of Ronald Bronstein's "Frownland" (2007), conjuring up some of the most intense superlatives ever thrown at a cheap New York indie (the New Yorker's Richard Brody called it "one of the most unusual and audacious American independent films ever made"), while still sweating bullets of qualification, as if holding a wolverine by the short hairs.
It didn't make much of a difference to audiences, who hardly noticed, but now that the film is being rather spectacularly DVD'd by the new Brooklyn outfit Factory 25, viewers can step up to this vicious peepshow and decide for themselves. Me, I'm not terribly convinced of the film's brilliance or of the necessity of deflating the hoopla; the impact of "Frownland"'s distinctive relentlessness has more to do, I think, with our expectations of film narrative than with the movie's aesthetic triumph. As in,...
It didn't make much of a difference to audiences, who hardly noticed, but now that the film is being rather spectacularly DVD'd by the new Brooklyn outfit Factory 25, viewers can step up to this vicious peepshow and decide for themselves. Me, I'm not terribly convinced of the film's brilliance or of the necessity of deflating the hoopla; the impact of "Frownland"'s distinctive relentlessness has more to do, I think, with our expectations of film narrative than with the movie's aesthetic triumph. As in,...
- 9/29/2009
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
Matt Grady, formerly of Plexifilm, is launching a film and music distribution label called Factory 25, which has bought world rights (barring France) to Ronald Bronstein's Frownland. According to a just-dropped press release, Factory 25 "will concentrate on releasing films theatrically, digitally and on DVD, as well as in conceptualized limited edition DVD/Vinyl combination packages." For Frownland, the limited edition will include "in addition to extra footage (practically a given these days) ... a comic book written in character by one of the actors, art drawn by lead actor Dore Mann, a soundtrack on vinyl, and a newsprint film poster." Apparently intent on hitting the hipster sweet spot between indie music and indie movies, Factory 25 also have plans to release a DVD set of videos by Damon & Naomi, early 90s indie r ...
- 6/25/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
Fans of Greta Gerwig are atwitter over the prospect of seeing the mumblecore It Girl on the big screen again.
The film is "Yeast," directed by Mary Bronstein, which had its debut in March at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, and then was streamed on the Web for a short time.
On Wednesday it will unreel at 7:30 p.m. at 92YTribeca (200 Hudson St., at Canal Street) as the opening half of a double feature.
The second half, at 9:30 p.m., is "Frownland," helmed by Bronstein's husband,...
The film is "Yeast," directed by Mary Bronstein, which had its debut in March at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, and then was streamed on the Web for a short time.
On Wednesday it will unreel at 7:30 p.m. at 92YTribeca (200 Hudson St., at Canal Street) as the opening half of a double feature.
The second half, at 9:30 p.m., is "Frownland," helmed by Bronstein's husband,...
- 1/4/2009
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
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