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  • Hoot - A Review

     It’s difficult to watch the new family film “Hoot” without comparing it to “Holes.” Besides the obvious similarity in names, both were based on popular children’s books, revolve around sweet-faced boys in their mid-teens who are bullied, present bumbling redneck adults in authority positions, and include valuable treasures hidden inside holes in the ground. Both films also feature actor Tim Blake Nelson in virtually identical supporting roles.More

  • Interview With "Very Little Time" Directors Todd and Tim Wynn

     With very little money and very little experience, brothers Todd and Tim Wynn wrote, produced, directed, edited, and starred in the independent feature film “Very_Little_Time.” The Wynns originally intended the 80-minute movie as a personal hands-on learning experience to help jump-start their film careers. Their original intention was just to go through the motions – from start to finish – of making a movie.More

  • "Show Business: A Season to Remember" – A Review

     Screened March 29, 2006 Florida Film Festival Southeast PremiereProducer-director Dori Berinstein’s full-length documentary “Show Business” is certainly a movie to remember. The film, which won the Grand Jury prize for best documentary at the Florida Film Festival, packs the 2003-2004 season’s worth of rehearsals, performances, reviews, and awards into 104 minutes of excitement.In fact, Berinstein whittled down nearly 400 interviews and 400 hours of footage to focus on four major musicals produced that year: the $3.More

  • "Chalk" - An Inside Look at the Teaching Profession

     Inspired by the grim statistic “fifty percent of America’s teachers quit within their first three years,” the independent film “Chalk” is a clever mock documentary about novice high school teachers and a newly promoted assistant principal as they struggle with their chosen careers. An insecure history teacher, an abrasive female gym coach, a self-promoting philosophy instructor, and a former teacher out of her element as a strict administrative disciplinarian, laugh and cry their way through the school year.Austin, Texas-based writer-director-producer Mike Akel uses a mixture of professional actors and real students (from some of the classes he has taught) to take a quirky inside look at teachers.More

  • "Friends With Money" – A Review

     Screened March 26, 2006Florida Film FestivalBack in 2002, when Jennifer Aniston was married to Brad Pitt and co-starring in the hugely successful “Friends,’ she played the title role in director Miguel Arteta’s independent film “The Good Girl.” Her portrayal of a drab, depressed store clerk trapped in an unhappy marriage to a pot-bellied house painter was so moving that she received a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award.At the time, Arteta told me in an interview that “Jennifer is a naturally happy person and had to learn how to reflect the appearance of someone who is severely depressed.More

  • "The Devil and Daniel Johnston" - A Review

     Enjoying its Southeast Premiere at the Florida Film Festival and arriving soon at a theater near you, “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” is a moving study of a singer-songwriter-musician-illustrator-artist who almost loses his career -- and indeed his very life -- because of manic depression. Director Jeff Feuerzeig’s sensitive documentary explores Johnston’s early years with his fundamentalist Christian family through his later years as a psychotic singing storyteller hell-bent on casting out the devil in his many disguises.A Sony Pictures Classics Release, “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” reveals the artist’s many sides: impetuous youth running off to join the carnival; independent filmmaker yearning to be a star, director, producer, and distributor; historian responsible for recording audiotapes of his childhood; visual artist documenting his thoughts and feelings into comic book-style drawings; idealistic performer hoping to be the next John Lennon; folk singer obsessed with heartfelt lyrics about his first-love; and psychiatric patient taking his meds, receiving his therapy, and dreaming of release.More

  • Interview with "The Way Back Home" executive producer Ralph Clemente

     For its East Coast Premiere, “The Way Back Home” found its way back home. Written by and starring Central Florida native Michael H. King, filmed in the Sanford and Orlando areas, and produced by a mostly Central Florida crew, “The Way Back Home” is part of a showcase for local films in the 2006 Florida Film Festival.More

  • Sick, Twisted and Perverse: The Mystique of Midnight Movies

     When you buy a movie ticket for a much-reviewed, “two thumbs up” major studio release starring A-list actors, you pretty much know what to expect. When you load up on caffeine and sugar to attend a midnight movie, however, you never know what might appear on the screen. In fact, the allure of midnight movies isn’t the time the film is scheduled, but the risk involved with watching something designed to push your buttons.More

  • Mind Your (Movie) Manners

     What do you think of this storyline? A polite couple waits patiently to buy movie tickets and concessions, and then finds empty seats in the auditorium a few rows away from others. They laugh and cry with the audience at all the right times, eat their snacks quietly, then pick up their trash at the end of the film and go home.More

  • An Interview With "Loggerheads" Writer-Director Tim Kirkman

     Before Ennis and Jack got together at Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming, Mark and George met in a small coastal town in North Carolina. Mark is a soft-spoken drifter hoping to save endangered Loggerhead turtles and George is a lonely motel owner. Writer-director Tim Kirkman says the gay romance is only part of the story, however.More