Happy Halloween!
Here a little Halloween movie for you – recorded on the way to the 2010 Big Bear Horror Film Festival,
Episode 149 – HEREAFTER / WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS / An Interview with ENTER THE VOID’s Nathaniel Brown
On this week’s podcast Gareth and I talk about the beautiful and heartfelt new film by Clint Eastwood HEREAFTER, the overlooked satire WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS, and our guest is Nathaniel Brown, star of the extraordinary ENTER THE VOID
Documentary Ethics, Economic Disparity, and LAST TRAIN HOME
The problem with many modern documentaries is that it’s hard to know what to think without more information on their production. Take for example The King of Kong, an exceedingly-entertaining glimpse at the battle for the Donkey Kong high-score whose ultra-simplistic David & Goliath story felt too good to be true. Turns out it may [...]
ROSEMARY’S BABY: The Cult of Domesticity
In my quest to determine my favorite horror films, it’s become increasingly clear that I have no idea what constitutes horror. Don’t Look Now? Hour of the Wolf? The Shout? Roman Polanski’s 1968 classic Rosemary’s Baby seemed like a no-brainer to me, but rewatching, it’s slightly scarier than Bride of Frankenstein, and it’s not as [...]
This Week in TFT
Oh my goodness Dear Reader we’re getting closer to the witching hour – that special time of year when old-fashioned, staid podcasters shed their conventional selves and transform into…what? I dunno. We’ll find out this October 31st. Meanwhile here’s what we’ve got coming up this bewitched week: Brandon ‘The Butcher’ Nowalk will be a scribing [...]
Episode 148: THE SOCIAL NETWORK / ENTER THE VOID / David Nadelberg Interviewed on MORTIFIED
On this week’s podcast Gareth and Jett discuss in-depth the film THE SOCIAL NETWORK and the extraordinary new work ENTER THE VOID as well as interview David Nadelberg of MORTIFIED
Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie and The American Dreamer
Maybe I misunderstood Joaquin Phoenix’s I’m Still Here when I called it an over-privileged aping of Andy Kaufman and Borat. (See my The Film Talk review here.) As I watched the 1971 documentary The American Dreamer — about Dennis Hopper and the making of his ill-fated The Last Movie – I had an epiphany. Phoenix [...]
THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE: The Body Politic
When I’m not carving topical jack-o-lanterns and funding my dentist’s third home, I treat Halloween as an opportunity to catch up with the horror greats I spent my adolescence cowering from (thanks to vividly traumatic childhood experiences with The Shining and The Exorcist that may or may not have involved pants-peeing). No longer new to [...]
This Week on TFT
This week in TFT we get scary and wondrous and perhaps, just perhaps, Uncle Jett will fix the broken Membership System: Our show this week in October is a big one – reviews of the absurdly over-hyped THE SOCIAL NETWORK, an interview with MORTIFIED creator David Nadelberg on using Kickstarter to crowdsource the funding of [...]
Change As Good As a Rest
Hey there Dear Listener – hope all is well in your world. Just a quick post to announce our new website – as you can see by looking around there’s been a few changes. Now of course there will be a few teething problems in the days ahead – yours truly will do his best [...]
THE SOCIAL NETWORK: For Those Who Think Young
You practically need Asperger’s to cut through the irrelevant pop-ups loudly obscuring David Fincher’s The Social Network, the erstwhile Facebook film turned sight-restoring cinemessiah. It’s misogynistic, racist, and homophobic, sing the delirious quota choir. It’s deeper than Kane, better than Network, bigger than Jesus, shout the blurb-whores. That’s not what happened, spit the eternal point-missers. [...]
Bowie Knife
The first scene of Nagisa Oshima’s ‘Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence’ (new on DVD and Blu-Ray from Criterion) is occupied with the horror of a soldier being forced to cut his intestines open as a punishment for being in love with another man. The last image of the film is the smiling face of a soldier [...]
Magnificent Appalling Astonishing – You Must See ENTER THE VOID
[Paz de la Huerta] Want to know what it was like for audiences when they first saw CITIZEN KANE or THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP? Then see ENTER THE VOID. As soon as possible.
I’ve Been VOIDED / MOTHER’S RED DRESS 5
[Alexandra Swarens and Tim Driscoll on the set of MOTHER'S RED DRESS] My friends, I’ve Been Voided. Two days ago my co-host and friend on The Show Prof. Dr. Gareth Higgins sent me an urgent text imploring me to see ENTER THE VOID as soon as possible. One day ago my brother burst into our [...]
THE SOCIAL NETWORK or How Facebook Caught My Girlfriend Cheating
In 2005, my college-aged friends introduced me to Myspace and Facebook. I quickly fell under Myspace’s spell, creating a personal and band page, taking way too many vanity self-portraits, and attempting to ‘friend’ as many quirky, cute girls that I could find in a 45 mile vicinity. I would have done the same with Facebook, [...]
CATFISH: Hook, Line, and Sinker?
The most regrettable thing about Catfish is that [SPOILER ALERT!!!!] the documentary team were not mauled by hillbilly cannibals during their dread-inducing pop-in at the Ishpeming, Michigan farm of the subject’s online love interest. In other words, the trailer is a big fat lie and/or an elaborate deception subliminally preparing us for the film’s shaky [...]
Episode 147 – SWANSONG: STORY OF OCCI BYRNE / Conor McDermottroe Interviewed at the 2010 LA Irish Film Festival
TFT 147 running time: 21 minutes 53 Seconds – 10.6mb mp3 SWANSONG: STORY OF OCCI BYRNE / THE 2010 LA IRISH FILM FESTIVAL – – – Subscribe to the Podcast – Become a TFT Member Follow TFT on Twitter – Follow TFT on Facebook – – – HELP JETT FIND WORK IN LA – CLICK HERE FOR HIS [...]
This Week in TFT
[The Aero Theatre in Santa Monica] This week on TFT the joy of that old-fashioned form of entertainment: Cinema, continues: Brandon Nowalk will be investigating that controversial, (? is it, I’m not sure actually – how to tell between the manufactured and the real these days?), new film CATFISH – but be warned there will [...]
The 2010 LA Irish Film Festival – Part 4
Alas it’s not appropriate for me to review CUP CAKE, Saturday’s film at the 2010 LA Irish Film Festival as I’m too biased – it was shot in North/Northern Ireland – a place where I directed for BBC TV for a few years – hence I know many, many people on CAKE’s crew as Belfast itself [...]
2010 LA Irish Film Festival – Part 3
Hello Dear Reader – hope you’re having as lovely a time wherever you are as I’m having in Los Angeles. Another night at the 2010 LA Irish Film Festival for yours truly – cracking films in MY BROTHERS and SWANSONG: STORY OF OCCI BYRNE. You’ll hear myself and Prof. Dr. Gareth Higgins talk about OCCI [...]
Episode 146 – PERRIER’S BOUNTY / THE 2010 LA IRISH FILM FESTIVAL
Play TFT Episode 146 – PERRIER’S BOUNTY Running time: 24 minutes 3 Seconds – 11.6mb mp3 PERRIER’S BOUNTY / THE 2010 LA IRISH FILM FESTIVAL – – – Subscribe to the Podcast – Become a TFT Member Follow TFT on Twitter – Follow TFT on Facebook – – – HELP JETT FIND WORK IN LA – CLICK [...]
