Its slim premise involving a couple of 13-year-old boys having fun with a camcorder in the late ’80s, “VHYes” is maybe a little too faithful to their sensibility — being exactly what a kid raised on “Saturday Night Live,” “Sctv,” and maybe cable broadcasts of “Kentucky Fried Movie” would imagine as the coolest home-made movie ever. It’s a freeform jumble of skits spoofing vintage broadcast series, commercials, public access shows, porn, and whatnot, their mildly surreal bent increasing as the short feature goes on.
Duly shot on VHS and digital Betacam, this first feature for Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon’s son Jack Henry Robbins is an amiable goof deploying cameos by the ’rents as well as some other familiar faces. But it’s the kind of enterprise that will only seem as funny, clever, and “weird” as it means to be if watched while very stoned and/or adolescent.
Duly shot on VHS and digital Betacam, this first feature for Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon’s son Jack Henry Robbins is an amiable goof deploying cameos by the ’rents as well as some other familiar faces. But it’s the kind of enterprise that will only seem as funny, clever, and “weird” as it means to be if watched while very stoned and/or adolescent.
- 1/17/2020
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Marlon Brando fell in love with the lush, private South Pacific atoll, Tetiaroa, while filming the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty - the Oscar winner purchased his beloved chain of islands in 1967 in the hopes they could be used as a location for research and education on biodiversity and sustainability. Today, the remote string of South Pacific islets, still owned by the Brando family, is home to a team of biologists, including the Oscar winner's grandson, who conduct research on mosquito-borne illnesses - specifically the rapidly-spreading Zika virus. #Repost @wil_in_the_sky ・・・ Tetiaroa island! #tetiaroa #privateisland #marlonbrando #sea #sun...
- 3/9/2016
- by Rose Minutaglio, @RoseMinutaglio
- PEOPLE.com
Marlon Brando fell in love with the lush, private South Pacific atoll, Tetiaroa, while filming the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty - the Oscar winner purchased his beloved chain of islands in 1967 in the hopes they could be used as a location for research and education on biodiversity and sustainability. Today, the remote string of South Pacific islets, still owned by the Brando family, is home to a team of biologists, including the Oscar winner's grandson, who conduct research on mosquito-borne illnesses - specifically the rapidly-spreading Zika virus. #Repost @wil_in_the_sky ・・・ Tetiaroa island! #tetiaroa #privateisland #marlonbrando #sea #sun...
- 3/9/2016
- by Rose Minutaglio, @RoseMinutaglio
- PEOPLE.com
Screamfest La 2013 kicked off with a bloody bang last night in North Hollywood, CA, at the Laemmle NoHo 7, and we were there to shoot the black carpet, catch the premiere of Ben Ketai's feature Beneath, and hit the opening night party. Read on!
Gracing the carpet, in addition to director Ketai, were Beneath cast members Kelly Noonan, Joey Kern, Eric Etebari, Lauren Gores and Rene Rivera, along with producers Kelly Wagner and Nick Phillips. Joining them for opening night were the following Screamfest 2013 film selection attendees (take a breath): director Matt Eskandari and writer Matt Lawson of The Gauntlet, The Banishing’s director Erlingur Ottar Thoroddsen and writer Brian McAuley, The Summoners' filmmaker Christian Ackerman, director Paul Hyett (The Seasoning House), Frost producer Ingvar Thordarson, director Samuel Gonzalez Jr. and actress Danielle Adams of Woodland Heights, Luna director Antonio Perez, director of Cannon Fodder Eitan Gafny, director...
Gracing the carpet, in addition to director Ketai, were Beneath cast members Kelly Noonan, Joey Kern, Eric Etebari, Lauren Gores and Rene Rivera, along with producers Kelly Wagner and Nick Phillips. Joining them for opening night were the following Screamfest 2013 film selection attendees (take a breath): director Matt Eskandari and writer Matt Lawson of The Gauntlet, The Banishing’s director Erlingur Ottar Thoroddsen and writer Brian McAuley, The Summoners' filmmaker Christian Ackerman, director Paul Hyett (The Seasoning House), Frost producer Ingvar Thordarson, director Samuel Gonzalez Jr. and actress Danielle Adams of Woodland Heights, Luna director Antonio Perez, director of Cannon Fodder Eitan Gafny, director...
- 10/9/2013
- by Sean Decker
- DreadCentral.com
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