Cinequest 2021: Slapface
Is there a relationship more special than that of a boy and his monster? Certainly the Virago doesn’t think so. After Lucas (August Maturo) and […]
Movies
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode 586: The Most Snyder Cut of All
Sal Pizarro joins the no-holds-barred discussion of Zack Snyder’s Justice League!
Cinequest 2021: D. Mitry Spins Magic Out Of Sorrow
With My True Fairytale, filmmaker D. Mitry turned a personal tragedy into the inspiration for his first feature film. Currently streaming at Cinequest, My True Fairytale […]
Cinequest 2021: I Make Good Sounds At Parties
If a short film can cover insecurity, trauma, heartbreak, and hope in 8 minutes while telling a coherent story through a clever lens, you have […]
They’re Dying To Save The World: The Suicide Squad Trailer
“Who knows why madmen do what they do?” Indeed. But we know why the madmen and women (and creatures) that make up the Suicide Squad […]
Cinequest 2021: Maya Sanbar Illuminates Child Refugee Crisis With Footsteps On The Wind
Having experienced the trauma of being a refugee herself, filmmaker Maya Sanbar knows its effect on children globally — whether it be the result of […]
Cinequest 2021: Joel Souza, The Man Driving Crown Vic
A successful screenwriter working from Fremont, California, Joel Souza turned feature film director last year with Crown Vic, a gritty cop drama covering one night […]
What Fans Owe Zack Snyder
We owe nothing, really, and vice versa, because whether you liked Zack Snyder’s Justice League or not, the world has moved on. But Snyder’s impact on […]
Cinequest 2021: Six Minutes To Midnight
It’s two weeks before the start of World War II. As schoolgirls take their exercise on a British beach, one of their teachers finds himself […]
Cinequest 2021: Nicholas Woods Confronts Echoes Of Violence
Filmmaker Nicholas Woods makes his Cinequest debut with Echoes of Violence, a revenge thriller that turns the genre on its head. Few characters allow you to […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast Video #586: Fanboy Planet’s Justice League
All Cinequest and no superheroes make fanboys maybe better rounded in our tastes, but antsy. So last night we assembled to discuss Zack Snyder’s Justice […]
Emerald Fennell Working Magic With Zatanna?
I thought about writing the headline backwards, but that would have been too irritating to search engines. Variety reports that writer/director Emerald Fennell (Promising Young […]
Cinequest 2021: Drive All Night
If you’ve walked in downtown San Jose by day, you might not have thought of it as a David Lynchian landscape. Maybe not even walking […]
Cinequest 2021: Talking Existence With hazart
Can you convince an AI to believe in an afterlife? That’s one of the intriguing questions posed by the writing/directing duo hazart in their new […]
Cinequest 2021: A Sexplanation
Let’s talk about sex. In documentarian Alex Liu’s mind, we don’t talk about it enough, or if we do, it’s not honestly enough. We may have […]
Cinequest 2021: A Hard Problem
“A memory is precious because it can be forgotten.” So memories get set in books, clothes, bric-a-brac, objects to sum up who a person was. […]
Cinequest 2021: Welcome To The Show
At a Cinequest years ago, I sat at a hotel bar with a director who specialized in interactive theater. He told me he thought it […]
Cinequest 2021: Alex Liu Offers A Sexplanation
Let’s talk about sex, honestly. In Alex Liu’s documentary A Sexplanation, he talks to people with different viewpoints, from religious conservatives to experts from the […]
Cinequest 2021: Everything In The End
Everything ends. That’s what gives it meaning. Or maybe it is all just meaningless. This may not be the year for you to contemplate that, […]
Cinequest 2021: Peter Hsieh Couldn’t Sleep, So He Created Drive All Night
To some, Silicon Valley is already a wonderland. Playwright Peter Hsieh saw another side to it, and taking his own sleepless nights driving around the […]