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I hate telling people my major.
The Loving Story tells the tale of a conveniently named couple who fell in love and got married. But their love was more than just star-crossed: It was illegal.
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival presented by the Center for Documentary Studies, will screen a selection of international documentary films in Durham and Chapel Hill from April 14-17. This year’s Festival features premieres of more than 60 documentaries and a thematic program on archival footage curated by filmmaker Rick Prelinger. Recess Film Editor Andrew O’Rourke discusses his top choices from the weekend’s festival.
Disney has bought and produced this same story hundreds of times. Unless you’re a tween who hasn’t yet been drowned by these tales of high-school drama, you might as well stay at home and watch the Disney Channel.
I Am Number Four, a film based on the novel by Pittacus Lore, tells the story of a small group of aliens sent to Earth to protect it from invasion by another evil alien race. Recess’ Andrew O’Rourke participated in a conference call with director D.J. Caruso and lead actors Alex Pettyfer and Dianna Agron.
Cellophane has a black tag around its toe, and it’s not going anywhere. Digital media has exploded into the hands of consumers and pros alike, scratching film’s death sentence into its fragile surface. What many have not realized is that this empowering democratization of video technologies is changing the way actors act and directors direct, even in Hollywood.
In the words of Emma Kurtzman, modern young adults have “an emotional peanut allergy” to relationships.
Emma and Adam’s relationship in No Strings Attached starts with sex and then moves on from there. Sound familiar? Perhaps from last semester? This film knows exactly where you’ve been.
At this year’s AMI Student Film Showcase, aspiring filmmakers and audiences alike will be treated to something special: two nights on the silver screen. All that’s missing is the red carpet.
Spoiler alert: This film may contain airborne blood and guts that fly in the third dimension. The seventh and final episode in the Saw saga is packed with so much death, the writers even created a dream sequence so they could kill one unlucky character twice.
When I went to the North Carolina State Fair last week, I had a disturbing experience that haunted me for days. And no, it didn’t involve fried food.
This year, many seniors will take their LSATs and fill out their applications without actually wanting to go to law school. If an older woman appears in class, she may very well be there to get her brother out of prison—especially if her name is Betty Anne Waters.
I spent my fall break all up and down the East Coast: I went to Comic Con in New York, visited a friend in Providence, said hi to my family in Pennsylvania and had dinner with a friend in Atlanta. My travels exposed me to a vast array of experiences: watching Green Lantern make out with Professor Chaos, listening to nerds who actually have that lisp ask questions at Battlestar Galactica panels, throwing knives and rolling cigarettes at a RISD gathering and enjoying the amenities of the suburban life that I will never again enjoy after this year.
It can be blackened, seared, grilled, fried, country fried or cajun. Southern kitchens may render the fish barely recognizable, but Catfish the film tells a story of an identity crisis even more profound.
What do you get when you put Jessica Alba and Lindsey Lohan in a Robert Rodriguez film? A lot of skin and everything underneath.
Graphic novel adaptations, especially superhero films like Ironman and The Dark Knight, rarely acknowledge the format from which they are derived. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, however, playfully incorporates its comic book and gamer roots into a fun, fast-paced and visually elaborate film that lets everyone in on the joke.
The last few years have seen a cinematic obsession with superheroes, vigilantes and corporate injustice. Upon debuting in 2008, the Iron Man franchise laughed in this trend’s face, using Tony Stark’s (Robert Downey Jr.) wit and singular entrepreneurial virtue to add a fresh twist to the genre. In a difficult follow-up to a brilliant origin story, Iron Man 2 retains the fun of its rogue status but loses much of the complexity and intelligence that made its predecessor such a hit.
In a cinematic climate plagued by easy explosions and automatic weapons, it’s refreshing to see a martial arts master slash, kick and break more people in two hours than Jack Bauer shoots in 24 episodes of primetime television. Although Ong Bak 2 offers seamless, lyrical fight scenes, it provides little substance to complement them.