After watching Inception for the first time I noticed something unfamiliar as I walked out of the theater: my brain literally hurt. Unlike an annoying headache, it was a pain I welcomed with open arms because it meant there was actually some kind of mental stimulation going on up there. My mind was overwhelmed not […]
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Film Rant: ‘127 Hours,’ A Second Opinion
If you were alive and news-conscious during 2003, you know the story of Aron Ralston, a young mountaineer and adventure-seeker who fell through a crevasse while hiking Utah’s Blue John Canyon and wound up stuck with a boulder crushing his right arm. You also know how he got out. Ralston wrote a book about his […]
Film Rave: 127 Hours…as unforgettable as the true story it is based upon.
When Aron Ralston (James Franco) left his home on a Friday evening he planned on a weekend of carefree mountain climbing. What he got was the most horrifying, soul searching, and eye-opening experience of his young life over the next 127 hours. Based on the novel “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” by Aron […]
RIFF Film Review: The Genius and the Boys
Nobel Prize winner. Genius scientist. Valued friend and co-worker. Pedophile. Carleton Gajdusek was regarded as all of the above. The final, that of a pedophile, would occur late in his stellar career after adopting 57 children from the tribes of the South Seas. In the documentary The Genius and the Boys director/screenwriter Bosse Lindquist, from […]
Film Rave: I’m Still Here
On October 27, 2008, Joaquin Phoenix, an award winning and Oscar-nominated actor, announced his retirement. He did not call a press conference, or announce his decision through his publicist. Joaquin simply told a reporter from the television show Extra, on a red carpet for a charity event he was involved in, that his as yet […]