“We all know people that spend half of their day commuting to work. The emotional cost of this fact is huge and shapes the life of millions of people everyday. Rush Hour focus on the impact of all the lost hours spend in transportation of 3 different people in 3 different different and complicated cities […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: FROM ALL CORNERS producer Yuko Shiomaki
“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. This is a story of an artist who thinks dumped cardboard is precious and making wallets from them.” Producer Yuko Shiomaki, a SxSW regular whose new movie FROM ALL CORNERS is showing at SxSW 2018 Conference & Festivals. I hear you are back at SxSW this year! Tell […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: PET NAMES director Carol Brandt
“PET NAMES follows two doddering young exes escaping the confines of their hometown to go camping for a few days together. Leigh is taking a break from playing nurse for her sick mother, Cam is in between jobs and life goals, and ends up tagging along with his decrepit pug companion, Goose. On the […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: TIME TRIAL director Finlay Pretsell
“I find it super hard to pitch the film after it has been made but this description is the best I’ve heard! A lone man, shrouded in darkness, declares an intention to rise again. Meanwhile, we, the audience, are hurtled off a hillside, details blurring like watercolors. This is expressive filmmaking of the highest order […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: Meet the team from the Canadian Short WE FORGOT TO BREAK UP!
“What if you created a band with your best friends, fell in love with the lead guitarist, led the band to superstardom, and then you wrote a memoir explaining why you had to break up with them?” Producer Nicole Hilliard-Forde on WE FORGOT TO BREAK UP which screens at SxSW Film 2018. Also joining Nicole […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: Narcissister Organ Player director Narcissister
“Narcissister Organ Player is a hybrid performance/documentary film that explores how ancestral data is stored in our bodies, impacting the lives we lead. On the personal level, the film investigates how my complex family history compelled me to create the masked, erotic performance character Narcissister.” How did this project come together for you? I got […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: A Little Wisdom director Yuqi Kang
“My film explores how children view the world and find happiness through simple life and the power of their imagination. The story takes place inside a century-old Buddhist monastery in Lumbini, Nepal, the birthplace of Buddha. We follow the daily routine of the youngest novice Hopakuli, and his older brother Chorten, both left by their […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: THE RIDER director Chloé Zhao
“It’s about a young rodeo rider coping with a near-fatal head injury. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.” Director Chloé Zhao on THE RIDER which screens […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET director Jeremy Workman
“THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET is a documentary that I’ve been making for over 3 years about Matt Green, who has been walking every single street of New York City, which amounts to over 8000 miles. The film tells the story of this peculiar personal quest, but it’s also about the journey of discovery, humanity, […]
The Strangers: Prey at Night – More Blood, Less Brains
It was really a matter of time. We are getting a sequel to every successful horror movie ever made these days and that is because we are living in the era of the horror genre. A well made scary movie makes a lot of money and draws a lot of crowds and the production companies […]
Blu Ray Review: The Foreigner
Now on Blu Ray, THE FOREIGNER was one of my favorite genre type films of 2017; a bizarrely plotted spy thriller that takes the pulpiest moments of John Le Carre and mixes it in with a spy thriller and kinda, sorta Kung-fu movie with Jackie Chan. If this movie had the Cannon Films logo on […]
GAME NIGHT: The Funniest Movie of 2018 (So far, anyway…)
As is per tradition of this movie lover, I tend to avoid as many previews and ahead of the release reviews of movies as I want to sit down in the theater with my gigantic bag of buttered popcorn and discover every new movie with fresh eyes. So I walk into GAME NIGHT with just […]
London Film Festival 2017: ‘The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)’ Review
After working with his muse Greta Gerwig on several projects, Noah Baumbach returns to his dysfunctional family roots with The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), creating what is basically his own The Royal Tenenbaums (and that is definitely a compliment.) The film follows three generations of the Meyerowitz family, a creative bunch who all have […]
Ben Stiller and Austin Abrams talk ‘Brad’s Status’
Back in September, at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, Get Reel Movies had the chance to take part in a roundtable discussion with Ben Stiller and Austin Abrams. In it we discussed Brad’s Status which played in TIFF’s Platform program. Below are some of the highlights of that roundtable. Get Reel Movies: I’m apart of the […]
London Film Festival 2017: ‘Princess Cyd’ Review
Coming-of-age stories revolving around teenage girls are not uncommon, and most of the time, we see the same cliches that never really capture what being young is actually like. But when 16-year-old Cyd (Jessie Pinnick) asks for the WiFi password not 5 minutes into her stay with her estranged aunt, I knew that Princess Cyd […]