Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Feb 8, 2012, 10:24 am
Seen: At Fresh Pond Entertainment Cinemas in Cambridge. All I ever want is a kickass action movie with a kickass lady at the center that doesn't get bogged down in stupid romance or sexism or boring parts. DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD THIS IS TO FIND. (Side note: give me recommendations, as usual.) Thankfu...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Feb 6, 2012, 9:00 am
Seen: On netflix instant on my tv (Practical Magic); On dvd on my computer, rented from Hollywood Express in Cambridge (The Witches of Eastwick). In my past few Alex Makes Art posts I've mentioned an etsy customer who's commissioned me to make some prints for her. She has a lot of different films an...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Feb 3, 2012, 11:58 am
Oh boy have I got lots of stuff to show you guys today! How exciting! I imagine that grad school will really start taking up all of my non-job time as the semester progresses so this might not happen much for a while, we shall see. I can almost guarantee no new art for next week, at any rate, since ...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Feb 2, 2012, 10:25 am
Seen: On blu-ray on our big screen/projector set-up. Ok so there is a movie in which Nicolas Cage and John Travolta play mortal enemies and for some reason they SWITCH FACES and then, like, duel each other? How have I known about this movie for at least 10 years and not seen it? I don't know, man, I...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Feb 1, 2012, 1:36 pm
Seen: On netflix instant on my tv. Yeah yeah so Sherlock Jr. is my first Buster Keaton film, so I'm unschooled in a lot of things, so what. In his remarkably prescient look at the magic of the movies, Keaton plays a mild-mannered film projectionist/wannabe detective who sees his romantic aspirations...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Jan 30, 2012, 2:47 pm
Seen: On dvd on our big screen/projector set-up, rented from netflix. It seems like the more I look into American horror films of the past decade, the more I realize they are all remakes of Japanese or Korean films. It's kind of ridiculous. A Tale of Two Sisters (later remade as The Uninvited) came ...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Jan 29, 2012, 1:41 pm
... the $2.00. Written by one of my favorite screenwriting pairs, Adolph Green and Betty Comden, It's Always Fair Weather investigates the enforced "normalcy" of ... out of favor, It's Always Fair Weather is enjoyable enough fluff that ... and hilarious Dolores Gray as their lady counterparts. C...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Jan 28, 2012, 11:14 am
Seen: On blu-ray on our big screen/projector set-up, rented from the Tisch Library at Tufts. The realization that I had only seen two new animated releases in 2011- and that one of them was Cars 2- made me super depressed. Everyone kept going on about how fun and movie-fan-friendly Rango was so that...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Jan 27, 2012, 9:00 am
Oh, hello! I'm suddenly knee-deep in scholarly reading for grad school so my art-making time has certainly taken a hit. I will continue to do my best to create awesome things, we'll just see if I can keep up the weekly pace. I have some neat things planned though. Luckily this week I do have somethi...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Jan 26, 2012, 10:40 am
... commission. One of them was for Annie Hall, a film I hadn't ... comedian Alvy (Allen) and scatterbrained singer Annie (Diane Keaton). Narrating with self- ... the story of his romance with Annie, and in turn we learn ... experiences with women- past and present- Annie Hall is notable more for...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Jan 25, 2012, 11:37 am
Seen: At the Kendall Square Landmark Cinema in Cambridge. Knowing internally who she is and what she wants, 17-year-old Alike aka Lee (Adepero Oduye) feels comfortable dressing in masculine clothing at her high school and openly looking for a girlfriend as her friend Laura (Pernell Walker) drags her...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Jan 23, 2012, 9:00 am
Seen: On dvd on my laptop, rented from Hollywood Express in Cambridge. When Sasha described a musical from the 1980s with David Bowie that somehow I hadn't heard of, I knew it would be an Important Movie for me to see. So we had a live-tweet session as we watched it in honor of Bowie's 65th birthday...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Nov 2, 2011, 11:08 am
This review is part of my coverage of the 2011 Toronto After Dark Film Festival, taking place October 20-27 at the Toronto Underground Cinema. For more information, check out their website. For my full coverage go here. Though I missed the shorts program, I did see a number of excellent short films ...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Nov 1, 2011, 7:13 pm
This review is part of my coverage of the 2011 Toronto After Dark Film Festival, taking place October 20-27 at the Toronto Underground Cinema. For more information, check out their website. For my full coverage go here. With the spiffiest poster I've seen in a while and a lot of positive buzz for Th...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 30, 2011, 9:16 pm
This review is part of my coverage of the 2011 Toronto After Dark Film Festival, taking place October 20-27 at the Toronto Underground Cinema. For more information, check out their website. For my full coverage go here. Four superheroes wake up in an isolated small town rigged to explode if they don...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 29, 2011, 9:00 am
This review is part of my coverage of the 2011 Toronto After Dark Film Festival, taking place ... Cinema. For more information, check out their website. For my full coverage go here. OK so this movie is ... . Brought to us by the Astron-6 collective (my new favorite people), Manborg is a short an...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 28, 2011, 9:00 am
This review is part of my coverage of the 2011 Toronto After Dark Film Festival, taking place October 20-27 at the Toronto Underground Cinema. For more information, check out their website. For my full coverage go here. As the world crumbles and burns around them, nine residents of an apartment buil...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 27, 2011, 9:00 am
This review is part of my coverage of the 2011 Toronto After Dark Film Festival, taking place October 20-27 at the Toronto Underground Cinema. For more information, check out their website. For my full coverage go here. Merging survivalist thriller with action-packed chase movie, A Lonely Place to D...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 26, 2011, 12:14 pm
This review is part of my coverage of the 2011 Toronto After Dark Film Festival, taking place October 20-27 at the Toronto Underground Cinema. For more information, check out their website. For my full coverage go here. My most highly-anticipated film for Toronto After Dark was definitely Love. At f...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 25, 2011, 1:00 pm
This review is part of my coverage of the 2011 Toronto After Dark Film Festival, taking place October 20-27 at the Toronto Underground Cinema. For more information, check out their website. For my full coverage go here. A one-eyed vigilante, a topless stripper with a chainsaw, a nearsighted cannibal...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 24, 2011, 9:00 am
This review is part of my coverage of the 2011 Toronto After Dark Film Festival, taking place October 20-27 at the Toronto Underground Cinema. For more information, check out their website. For my full coverage go here. Toronto After Dark kicked off its week-long genre festival with a punch as Canad...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 23, 2011, 11:19 am
Seen: On dvd on our big screen/projector set-up. Horror is definitely a film genre in which I feel woefully unversed. I'm a bit of a wimp and in some ways pretty squeamish so I've avoided a lot of the bigger-name ones on purpose. I'm trying to rectify that somewhat since really I need to just man up...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 22, 2011, 9:00 am
Seen: On dvd on my tv, rented from Hollywood Express in Cambridge. 85/100 on the Sci-Fi List. "On Io, one of Jupiter's moons, Sean Connery is the law." An awkward tagline, it's true, but pretty inviting! Outland is a spaced-out version of High Noon... a movie I've never seen. Connery plays Marshall...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 21, 2011, 4:34 pm
Seen: At the Landmark Cinema Kendall Square in Cambridge. With a name like Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame and the promise of spontaneous combustion, this movie was an easy sell. Inspired by real-life Tang Dynasty official Di Renjie, the film sees the highly-skilled fighter/detect...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 20, 2011, 6:00 am
Seen: On dvd on our big screen/projector set-up (The Muppet Movie) and on my tv (Muppet Treasure Island), both rented from the Tisch Library at Tufts. Oh boy I'm kind of really looking forward to the new Muppet movie, you guys! I haven't seen too much of the variety show but growing up I enjoyed all...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 18, 2011, 11:58 pm
... Hong Kong action flick delivers all the head-explodys and poorly-structured ... a high-on-life kind of evening (seriously, watching this movie ... murdering a dude, but finds the futuristic privatized complex is totally ... ? This movie is crazy times. The gore is plentiful- from shattered ...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 16, 2011, 9:45 am
... 's a tough one... the only other vampire musical I can think of at the moment is Suck, but that movie isn't very good. Maybe Streets of Fire? Or Shock Treatment? Definitely something rockin' from the 80's. PS Maybe writer/director Luco Bercovici has started following me on twitter? Can it reall...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 13, 2011, 5:48 pm
Seen: At AMC/Loews Harvard Square in Cambridge. Set in a future where human-on-human boxing has been replaced with giant remote-control robots destroying each other for profit, Real Steel tells the heartwarming tale of a boy (Dakota Goyo) who's forced to spend the summer with his asshole boxer fathe...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 11, 2011, 9:00 am
Seen: At AMC/Loews Boston Common. Ok so there's a movie with Woody Harrelson and Ron Perlman, and a beautifully androgynous Japanese singer named Gackt, and it's set in the future, and it's really pretty and colorful, and most of the runtime is just people fighting. What the fuck is not to like abou...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 10, 2011, 1:10 pm
Seen: On dvd on my tv, rented from netflix. Set in and around the Jersey City projects, Girlfight follows tough-as-nails teenager Diana (Michelle Rodriguez) as she struggles to navigate two environments where she doesn't fit in- high school and family. She gets into fights and doesn't have many frie...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 9, 2011, 2:07 pm
Seen: On dvd partly on my laptop (long bus ride) and partly on my tv (when I arrived home), rented from netflix. 84/100 on the sci-fi list. With a 3+ hour running time, James Cameron's comprehensive thriller The Abyss details the events befalling an oil-drilling crew in the Caribbean. When a US Nav...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 7, 2011, 9:00 am
Urgh I totally have been falling behind in my art-making! There's a lot going on around here right now and I don't ever seem to have free time. But hopefully I can set things straight soon. Anyway, here's a new poster! I went to a midnight showing of Clueless last week and it was awesome, so I thoug...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 6, 2011, 9:00 am
... fit. Directed by and starring Warren Beatty, Dick Tracy sees the titular detective trying to take down powerful crime boss Big ... she gets kidnapped. With its candy-colored palette and detailed set pieces, Dick Tracy is certainly easy on the ... this is too much. All in all Dick Tracy has som...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 5, 2011, 12:26 pm
... an intimate and telling experience for the viewer that combines fantastic cinematography ... The high-pitched noise-music increases the effect tenfold. As we switch ... by Patrick (John "Always Awesome" Hawkes), the cult's appropriately charismatic and ... is fantastic. It's everything a fam...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 4, 2011, 5:58 pm
... to a pre-human state. Gahhh I cannot seem to collect my thoughts on Altered States. The story makes less and less sense as ... know how it is. Sure, a good portion of Altered States is just William Hurt hanging out and getting high in the name of science ... video (aka my favorite music vide...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Oct 2, 2011, 10:42 pm
Seen: On dvd on my tv, both from my personal collection. I was in a serious musical mood the other day and was so pleased to re-discover my On The Town dvd. I realized it goes well with a recent surprise gift from my totally awesome grandma, On the Riviera. And so a double feature was born! Both fil...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Sep 29, 2011, 9:00 am
I know this is sort of a weird list topic, but it's something I've thought about a lot. I really love dramatic hair-cutting scenes in movies (usually when someone does to him/herself). I've been cutting my own hair for years now and there is something so freeing and refreshing about it, so maybe tha...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Sep 28, 2011, 9:29 am
Seen: On dvd on my tv, rented from netflix. I think it's safe to say that if a non-artsy person were put on the spot to name a famous female artist, the two most popular answers would be Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo. The former's work isn't to my taste, though I appreciate what she's done for ou...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Sep 27, 2011, 9:00 am
Whaaaat? New movie art on a TUESDAY?! How zany! Yes, yes my schedule was all in a funk this weekend due to a fancy gallery opening and my mom visiting, so I am posting a new Movie Sketch Project on a weird day. Lucky you! And lucky me, I don't have to write a review for today! So a few weeks ago whe...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Sep 26, 2011, 9:00 am
Seen: At the Somerville Theater in Davis Square. You know me, always keeping up with the times as I review new movies weeks after they're relevant. Nicolas Winding Refn's much-discussed Drive stars Ryan Gosling as an unnamed stunt driver who's a getaway driver for hire on his nights off. He befriend...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Sep 25, 2011, 1:32 pm
... movies I've ever heard of. In Zelig, a mockumentary of the fad-crazy 1920's, Allen portrays Leonard Zelig, a man so desperate to fit in ... Allen into old newsreels and photos, as Zelig interacts with various historical figures, while ... at some points. The new scenes with Zelig and Eudor...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Sep 22, 2011, 9:00 am
Seen: On dvd on my tv, rented from netflix. Someone must have recommended this to me and I have no idea who, but it found its way to the top of my netflix queue. So thanks, un-remembered recommender. Sorry. Directed by 80's comedy heavyweight John Landis, Into the Night stars Jeff Goldblum as Ed Oki...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Sep 20, 2011, 10:41 am
Seen: On vhs on my tv, rented from Hollywood Express in Cambridge. Recommended by my lovely fellow podcaster Allison, a lady of fine tastes, The Navigator was another find from the VHS section of Hollywood Express. It tells the strange story of an isolated village in medieval England trying to avoid...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Sep 19, 2011, 12:16 pm
Seen: On vhs on my tv, rented from Hollywood Express in Cambridge. Scouring the formidable vhs section at Hollywood Express (we found some GEMS, believe me), Miles was almost immediately struck by McBain, an actual movie and not just a Simpsons reference. It stars Christopher Walken as the titular h...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Sep 18, 2011, 11:20 pm
... a wild mash-up of Phantom of the Opera, Faust, a little ... Jessica Harper is alluring as Phoenix, the wide-eyed singer who easily caves in under promises of excess, while Gerrit Graham is hilarious and strangely sympathetic as the effeminate rock star known as ... mask after he gets stuck i...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Sep 16, 2011, 9:00 am
Oh goodness has it been a week already? Time is flying by here now that I'm settled into my second job (did I mention I'm now working for a filmmaker?) and just generally busier. But I finished my Parks and Recreation postcard series from last week! Yay! All ten of the show's main characters are lov...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Sep 15, 2011, 12:03 pm
Seen: On blu-ray on our big screen/projector set-up, rented from Hollywood Express in Cambridge. With its somewhat recent blu-ray release I feel like I've suddenly been hearing a lot about The Night of the Hunter, an idiosyncratic thriller with Robert Mitchum in an iconic psycho-preacher role. When ...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Sep 14, 2011, 9:00 am
Seen: On dvd on our big screen/projector set-up, rented from netflix. As I've mentioned several times in the past, I have become a somewhat crazed Re-Animator fan this past year. It's just the perfect movie. So it was with gusto (and a few suspicious cohorts) that I popped in From Beyond, a film tha...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Sep 13, 2011, 9:00 am
Seen: On netflix instant on our big screen/projector set-up. Based on Cyrano de Bergerac, a play I've never seen/read but certainly recognize aspects of, Roxanne stars Steve Martin (who also wrote the screenplay) as CD Bales, a friendly fire chief with a surprisingly large nose (he's kinda sensitive...
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Alex K. posted an article on Film Forager - Sep 12, 2011, 9:00 am
Seen: On dvd rented from Hollywood Express in Cambridge (Police Story 2) and on Netflix instant (Tetsuo), both on our big screen/projector set-up. 82/100 on the Sci-Fi List. Though I watched these films back-to-back I wasn't going to make them a double feature post since there's really very little t...
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