As timely as last night’s episode of “ESPN Sports Center,” and as riveting as a well-crafted tick-tock suspenser, “National Champions” adroitly avoids most of the pitfalls common to conventional “message movies” by raising and debating issues in the context of a solid and involving drama that can be enjoyed even by people who couldn’t tell an offside kick from a cheerleader’s cartwheel. It’s intent on exposing the inner workings of college football, but don’t expect a lot of gridiron action here. Except for a few — very few — highlight clips sprinkled here and there, the focus remains on the interactions of players, coaches, media scrums, well-heeled boosters, freelance fixers, and NCAA movers and shakers during the countdown to the fictional Snickers College Football Championship.
Three days before the big event in New Orleans, a national title clash pitting the undefeated Wolves against the 13-1 Cougars, Heisman...
Three days before the big event in New Orleans, a national title clash pitting the undefeated Wolves against the 13-1 Cougars, Heisman...
- 12/10/2021
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety Film + TV
Does your memory go as far back as 2010, or have too many catastrophes and cataclysms blurred your vision? Peter Berg’s tense account of the Bp Gulf Oil Spill debacle covers twenty hours of technological peril, as Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell battle idiotic executives and a badly-cemented oil well that’s fixing to blow sky high — and to turn a massive floating oil rig into a hellish inferno.
Deepwater Horizon
Blu-ray + DVD
Lionsgate
2016 / Color / 2:35 1:85 widescreen 1:37 flat full frame / 97 min. / Street Date January 10, 2016 / 39.99
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Gina Rodriguez, John Malkovich, David Maldonado, Kate Hudson, Brad Leland.
Cinematography Enriqaue Chediak
Film Editors Gabriel Fleming, Colby Parker Jr.
Original Music Steve Jablonsky
Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Matthew Sand from an article by David Rohde, Stephanie Saul
Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, Mark Wahlberg, David Womark
Directed by Peter Berg
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
What...
Deepwater Horizon
Blu-ray + DVD
Lionsgate
2016 / Color / 2:35 1:85 widescreen 1:37 flat full frame / 97 min. / Street Date January 10, 2016 / 39.99
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Gina Rodriguez, John Malkovich, David Maldonado, Kate Hudson, Brad Leland.
Cinematography Enriqaue Chediak
Film Editors Gabriel Fleming, Colby Parker Jr.
Original Music Steve Jablonsky
Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Matthew Sand from an article by David Rohde, Stephanie Saul
Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, Mark Wahlberg, David Womark
Directed by Peter Berg
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
What...
- 12/27/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Last year’s Best Editing field included “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” but this decade that blockbuster and “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” are the only two nominees that were not also Best Picture nominees. The safer bet is to stick with those contenders. Especially until someone actually sees this year’s “Star Wars” film, ‘Rogue One.’ [Nov 29]
Top Five
Tom Cross, “La La Land”
Jennifer Lame, “Manchester by the Sea”
Joi McMillion, Nat Sanders “Moonlight”
Jake Roberts, “Hell or High Water”
Themla Schoonmaker, “Silence”
Almost There
Alexandre de Franceschi, “Lion”
Gabriel Fleming, Colby Palker, Jr.
Continue reading 2017 Best Editing Oscars Predictions at The Playlist.
Top Five
Tom Cross, “La La Land”
Jennifer Lame, “Manchester by the Sea”
Joi McMillion, Nat Sanders “Moonlight”
Jake Roberts, “Hell or High Water”
Themla Schoonmaker, “Silence”
Almost There
Alexandre de Franceschi, “Lion”
Gabriel Fleming, Colby Palker, Jr.
Continue reading 2017 Best Editing Oscars Predictions at The Playlist.
- 11/30/2016
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
The world of independent television is pretty chaotic right now, largely because, unlike the indie film scene, there’s no clear trajectory to success. Some shows threw all their money into shooting a pilot. Some shows have shot multiple episodes. Some shows have found alternate distribution opportunities already. Some shows remain unseen. All of them, though, want to go beyond their current status.
Read More: SeriesFest 2016 Winners Include Fan Fiction and Irish Crime
As an attendee of SeriesFest 2016, I had the opportunity to see a large percentage of the pilots screened as part of the independent pilot competition. Some of these pilots were not world premieres, but all of the ones I saw represented the impressive state of independent production today; where a shoestring budget can still produce content on a level equal to what you might watch on TV. Below are just a few of the pilots that impressed me most,...
Read More: SeriesFest 2016 Winners Include Fan Fiction and Irish Crime
As an attendee of SeriesFest 2016, I had the opportunity to see a large percentage of the pilots screened as part of the independent pilot competition. Some of these pilots were not world premieres, but all of the ones I saw represented the impressive state of independent production today; where a shoestring budget can still produce content on a level equal to what you might watch on TV. Below are just a few of the pilots that impressed me most,...
- 6/30/2016
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Indie Roundup reviews the past week of news from the independent film community and provides a peek at what's coming soon.
Deals. Screen Media Films picked up U.S. rights to Women in Trouble and plans a release on November 13. The film, directed by Sebastian Gutierrez, is "a fun addition to the current trend of revisiting and reworking exploitation-film themes in a lighthearted way," wrote our own Jette Kernion earlier this year. "There's a certain pleasure in seeing a movie where the men are relegated to the Supportive Spouse and Lust Interest roles, after I've seen so many films where those are the only roles for women."
Dave Boyle's White on Rice, described as a heartwarming comedy, has been acquired by Variance Films and Tiger Industry Films; a theatrical release is scheduled to begin in Los Angeles on September 11 before expanding throughout the fall. Matt Bradshaw pointed the way to the quietly funny trailer.
Deals. Screen Media Films picked up U.S. rights to Women in Trouble and plans a release on November 13. The film, directed by Sebastian Gutierrez, is "a fun addition to the current trend of revisiting and reworking exploitation-film themes in a lighthearted way," wrote our own Jette Kernion earlier this year. "There's a certain pleasure in seeing a movie where the men are relegated to the Supportive Spouse and Lust Interest roles, after I've seen so many films where those are the only roles for women."
Dave Boyle's White on Rice, described as a heartwarming comedy, has been acquired by Variance Films and Tiger Industry Films; a theatrical release is scheduled to begin in Los Angeles on September 11 before expanding throughout the fall. Matt Bradshaw pointed the way to the quietly funny trailer.
- 7/29/2009
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
by indieWIRE (January 6, 2008) "The Lost Coast," Gabriel Fleming's second feature as a director, premiered at SXSW last year and has since won the best feature prize at NewFest. The film follows high school friends who reunite for Halloween in San Francisco and confront experiences of the past that no one has yet dared to explore. indieWIRE talked to Fleming about the film, which is now available on Amazon VOD.
- 1/6/2009
- by peter
- indieWIRE - People
(We're reposting our SXSW review of The Lost Coast to coincide with the film's release via Amazon VOD)
By: Eric D. Snider
As Jasper, the narrator and protagonist of The Lost Coast, begins to describe the events of Halloween night, he says, "We found a dead body -- but more on that later." You know it's an eventful night when discovering a corpse isn't even the lead story.
In this moody, occasionally dreamlike drama, it's not what happens to Jasper and his friends that's important, so much as what happens within Jasper's soul. Yes, most of the drama here is internal, and while writer/director Gabriel Fleming falls prey to some of the missteps typical of new filmmakers, he gets a lot right, too, with a lot of emotional insight.
The film is constructed around an e-mail that twentysomething Jasper (Ian Scott McGregor) is writing to his fiancee overseas, in...
By: Eric D. Snider
As Jasper, the narrator and protagonist of The Lost Coast, begins to describe the events of Halloween night, he says, "We found a dead body -- but more on that later." You know it's an eventful night when discovering a corpse isn't even the lead story.
In this moody, occasionally dreamlike drama, it's not what happens to Jasper and his friends that's important, so much as what happens within Jasper's soul. Yes, most of the drama here is internal, and while writer/director Gabriel Fleming falls prey to some of the missteps typical of new filmmakers, he gets a lot right, too, with a lot of emotional insight.
The film is constructed around an e-mail that twentysomething Jasper (Ian Scott McGregor) is writing to his fiancee overseas, in...
- 12/31/2008
- by Cinematical staff
- Cinematical
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