In 1984, actor/director Robert Redford founded the Sundance Film Festival for independent filmmakers working outside the studio system to showcase their films. With only one theater showing the films, Redford would stand outside trying to persuade anyone who walked by to take part in the Utah-based film festival. Now, 27 years later, the festival received over 3,000 feature-length submissions from around the world as well as over 6,000 U.S. and international short film submissions while attracting over 50,000 visitors. Hit the jump for more… Read the rest of this entry »
Imagine a small pill that allows your brain to become a super-computer, one with the capability of remembering the most minute of images you have subconsciously have seen over the course of your life as well as learn and master absolutely anything in a fraction of the time it would normally take you. Sounds pretty great right? Well, not for Eddie Morra it isn’t, the character Bradley Cooper plays in “Limitless”. In fact, it isn’t that great for “Limitless” as a whole, a film that isn’t all that intelligent to begin with. Hit the jump to see why. Read the rest of this entry »
After it’s freshman season being met with stellar reviews and ratings, FX’s hit series “Justified” premiered its second season last month and it looks to surpass its prior season’s accomplishments. Set in the boondocks of eastern Kentucky and the town of Harlan, “Justified” tells the tale of Deputy Marshall Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), a shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later lawman that deals his own kind of justice when needed. Hit the jump for my thoughts on Justified’s season two opener… Read the rest of this entry »
