MOVIE REVIEW – WHIP IT
Whip It - Whip It is classic Sunday afternoon fare – it entertains, but you end up wishing for something more. Being the first venture into directing, Drew Barrymore should be commended for making a film that with pace and is enertaining, even if it’s not always successful. The film’s strengths are the scenes with the Roller Girls and their camaraderie, but not the scenes involving the actual game. Whip It is as faithful an account... Read More
BORN LUCKY invades Wiseau Country!
San Francisco's Favorite Son This past week we here at Born Lucky Studios ventured to Tommy Wiseau’s own San Francisco. While we where there for work, an internet video for RTC, we said ‘Oh Hi’ of one of the West Coast’s most beautiful cities. We’ll post more from the shoot after the edit is complete, but until then, enjoy a little sample from the ‘Masterpiece’ that is The Room. Read More
A Bit of Delfest
For those of you who missed Delfest this past Memorial Day weekend, I have compiled a few snippets of pure bluegrass awesomeness. Enjoy! [vimeo=vimeo.com/12650918] YouTube version HERE. Read More
REVIEW: Blue Steel
Blue Steel - An early Kathryn Bigelow film that show’s so much promise in its first act that it’s an incredible shame that last act devolves into unbelievable cat and mouse farce. Yet, even in the face of this ludicrous final act, the performers, namely Jamie Lee Curtis and Ron Silver, are remarkably unscathed. The story centers around a rookie cop (Curtis) shooting a robbery suspect in the middle of his robbery. When the gun she claimed... Read More
REVIEW: Bigger than Life
Bigger than Life - James Mason seems to have unfairly fallen into the category of forgotten legends. The problem with that is not that we need to think of him in the same breath as James Dean or Humphry Bogart, but his omission from the general consciousness disappointing. So, outside of a fantastic parody of him by John Hamm on SNL, where should we remember him? Most defiantly as the debonair villain in North by Northwest. Surely, as the pedophile... Read More
REVIEW: I Know Where I’m Going
I Know Where I’m Going - Ever wonder what a smart romantic-comedy should look like? Well, look no further than Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going. Strong Characters, Smart Dialogue, and No Stupid Meet Cutes – this film is what you want when you go and see Leap Year. It’s an enjoyable 100 minutes, that you won’t wish you had back. (Then again, I enjoy not being bored.) Read More
REVIEW: Ride with the Devil
Ride with the Devil - Ang Lee’s Ride with the Devil is a film that has improved with age. A fact that maybe in part due to it being book-ended by two excellent films (The Ice Storm and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). I remember seeing it when it came out in 1999, and not really thinking too much of it, or rather, not thinking too much about it after I saw it. But more than ten years on, the film is better than before. Maybe that’s due... Read More
REVIEW: House of Mirth
House of Mirth - Speaking of forgotten films. House of Mirth is the bizarro Pride and Prejudice, everything does not work out for our heroine, the love interest stays unattainable and prick-ish. The film leaves us a bitter taste – one part frustration, one part anger. That a film like this comes from what would seem to be a stuffy and antiseptic environment (19th Century New York) is somewhat shocking. Not shocked that life was hard for women,... Read More
Born Lucky’s April & May Recap
April April started off as a month of finishing projects. Early April, we finished up a final rough of comedian Reggie Watts and playwright Tommy Smith’s Disinformation. (In fact, their follow up project Transition will be playing in NYC this fall.) We also finished up the last remnants of the Century Council’s Attorney General and Dara Torres PSA. Speaking of The Century Council, we also traveled to DC to film their Take Your Sons and... Read More
REVIEW: Tokyo Sonata
Tokyo Sonata - Kiyoshi Kurosawa is one of my favorite directors. His films tend towards horror or supernatural, but not horror of the American cinema, but more of dread or sadness. His cinema lends itself to the dread and horror of the last couple of years. The story revolves around a husband/father who has been laid off, but doesn’t tell his family. He continues to go to ‘work’ everyday, though in this case his ‘workplace’... Read More
