Cinemuerte Reviews

About to wrap up another festival. Has been one hell of a ride so far. Got to meet some great people and see some great movies. For those interested Film Threat's got a few of my reviews up, with a few more to come. So far you can read about "The Uninvited", "Poor Pretty Eddie", "Lady Terminator" & Jeff Lieberman's "Satan's Little Helper".

Linky Linky

While trying to find stills for my Cinemuerte pre-reviews, I stumbled across what looks like a great site for grey market weirdo DVDs. I can't vouch for quality or reliability, and they seem a little on the spendy side ($20 US a DVD), but they do come with custom cover art and carry a lot of stuff I haven't seen elsewhere. If you've heard anything or had experience with them yourself, let me know as I'm dying to try them out.

The site is also worth checking out for the DVD previews and articles. They seem to have something to do with Bananafish magazine, but like I said I found this by accident.

See What Happens When I Get Off My Butt

Enter the D.o.S. #18 now available.

Just Call Me FilmGRRRL -- More Foods for Thoughts

So I found these two articles while at work today through totally different contexts, but they do seem to go together.
First off, Faye Weldon discusses a new "Alfie" for a new generation. Then, I also found a pretty even female perspective on, as I call it "date-rape porn".

I Love My Country

And not just because we don't have Dub'ya.

I found both of these on the CBC site:

The next film festival I just have to cover.

And, the insanely obsure Canadian connection in Star Wars.

Also, I now have a copy of "Has Been" and I love it more than life. Envy me.

In Case Anyone Cares

Enter the D.o.S. #17 is up.

Long Live the Revolution

Found out Thursday night that there was a coup-like regime change at local weekly Terminal City and our lovely friend Bess Lovejoy had been made the new Editor in Chief. Not making too much of this at the time I simply noted that Bess knows that I write and wouldn't it be cool if I was asked to contribute something since it sounds like half of their writers got up and left with the old editor. But I certainly wasn't counting on anything as I'm still in the process of committing to my writing and trying to figure out how to make a career out of it. Well, I was sitting at home last night waiting for Damon and Andria to show up when all of a sudden I get a call from Chris Eng, editor of the Terminal City film section. The boy and I are both big fans of Mr. Eng and I knew from reading his columns that he and I are on the same page, culturally speaking. So you'll pardon me if I plotzed a little when he told me that he'd read some of my Film Threat stuff, liked my writing and wanted me to start contributing columns, biweekly like. Granted I'm still not getting paid for it, but being in a publication with circulation like Terminal City and with a general audience (not just film nerds) will be excellent experience, as will actually collaborating with an editor on pieces.

Needless to say, I'm stoked. Now I just need to get off my ass and write something...

Wait a Minute...

So, it's Saturday so I'm doing some chores, and when I do chores on Saturday I like to listen to music. Being bored with my iTunes selections (and still trying to find an efficient way to avoid the three billion Frank Black songs the boy downloaded when I hit "shuffle") I decided to try out some internet radio. I like internet radio. I like that there are no commercials, and especially I like that there usually aren't any inane DJs babbling about how funny they are. I also like that you can listen to stations from all over the world, with all kinds of interesting and unusual programming. One of my current faves is The Green Lounge. They play a great mix of old crooners, movie hits from the golden age of Hollywood (who else plays Mario Lanza on the radio!?) and contemporary lounge. But today I decided to be a little nostalgic and try out an "alternative" station. One that plays all the music I used to listen to in high school. Guess what, it's still boring. So I decided to try this Dutch station called Zeilsteen Radio, naively thinking that it would all be pop-y fun Euro-alternative. And what are they playing?

Tom Fucking Cochran.

WTF?!!?

More of my self-important babble

Film Threat has finally posted Enter the Den of Sin #16.

Stayed tuned for my film fest recap: VIFF 04 -- Sixteen Days of Meh