TFT 141 – A Big Thank You / From the Archives: Francis Ford Coppola Interviewed
TFT 141 – A Big Thank You / From the Archives: Francis Ford Coppola Interviewed Running Time: 48 minutes 55 seconds – 22.5mb mp3 Subscribe to the Podcast – Follow TFT on Twitter – Go to the Facebook Page
Piranha 3D: Sloppy, Gory Fun.
A friend of mine accused my last article (Kick Ass & Why I Don’t Like Super Hero Movies) of elitism. As if. Snobbery maybe, but elitism? If I were truly a film elitist, I wouldn’t have enjoyed the skin & blood fest that is Piranha 3D. But for all its faults, I did.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: Talkin' 'bout my generation
I thought I was so over Michael Cera. My video game skills are only up to the early levels of Super Mario Bros, NES. And I have as much desire to watch hipsters fall in and out of “relationships” for a couple hours as I do to sit through Inception again and see if I’m [...]
Some Bad News
Hey there TFT fans – some bad news: my wife’s just called and our house in Nashville’s been broken into. Luckily she wasn’t home at the time and is ok – but all of our computers, cameras and many valuables gone, (TFT Archives possibly??). The result of this is that I’m taking the red-eye from Los [...]
TFT 140 – From the Archives: QUANTUM OF SOLACE
TFT 140 running time: 1 hours 1 minute 10 seconds – 28.1mb mp3 Subscribe to the Podcast – Follow TFT on Twitter – Go to the Facebook Page
Restrepo: No exit
Covering the war in Afghanistan from the frontlines, Restrepo (2010) is an eye-opening piece of journalism that makes CNN’s Persian Gulf coverage look like a puff piece. Directors Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger deliver verite naturalism as they embed with the US Army for fifteen months in the most dangerous region of Afghanistan, the Korengal [...]
KICK-ASS and Why I Don’t Like Superhero Movies
Yes, I know it’s been a while since Kick-Ass played the theaters. But I only just caught it on Blu-Ray, and it led me to think long and hard about superhero movies — thoughts I felt worth sharing with you. Here’s why I didn’t like Kick-Ass and why I generally don’t like superhero movies: As [...]
TFT 139 – THE OTHER GUYS / The Perfect Cinema
TFT 139 running time: 49 minutes 11 seconds – 23.7mb mp3 THE OTHER GUYS starts at 1 minute 2 seconds The Perfect Cinema starts at 24 minutes 16 seconds – – – HELP JETT FIND WORK IN LA – CLICK HERE FOR HIS RESUME
The Kids Are All Right: Modern family
Hi Folks – Jett here. It gives me great pleasure to introduce a new guest blogger on TFT: Brandon Nowalk. I’ve been enjoying his blog But What She Said for some time – it’s a great fast, pithy read with real insight into film coupled with genuine warmth, (and plenty of Fuller – I mean [...]
The 48 Hour Film Festival
In 2007, I made a film for the Nashville 48 Film Festival. If you’re not familiar with the fest, teams from around each city must write, shoot, and edit a 4-7 minute film in just 48 hours. The teams are given a line of dialogue, a prop, a character, and a hat-pulled genre. I’d like [...]
Thoughts on Winter's Bone
Winter’s Bone is by far and wide the best reviewed live action American film of the year (beat out on Metacritic only by the Ozu re-release I was Born, But. . ., the brilliant Un Prophete, and Toy Story 3.) The modern day Ozark noir has some of the best performances of recent memory, a [...]
TFT 138 – SALT / DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS – THE DINNER GAME – LE DîNER DE CONS
TFT 138 running time: 41 minutes 20 seconds – 19.9mb mp3 SALT starts at 1 minute 30 seconds DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS / THE DINNER GAME starts at 22 minutes 54 seconds – – – HELP JETT FIND WORK IN LA – CLICK HERE FOR HIS RESUME
