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An Interview With Sam Frazier Jr.
As just a heads up, GNW videos are still new and I'm still new to recording them so I just wanted to say sorry for the awkward camera movements. If you're interested in Cardboard Titanics, you can find...
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Orlando Film Festival Day 2: Of Magicians and Cards
Yesterday was the real start of the festival. Far more people, far more time, and, most importantly, far more films. We have some really great ones, some not so great ones, and everything in between....
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W.D.'s Review of AMOK
Amok is an uncomfortable film for soon to be obvious reasons. The characters are a small class of kids in a lower-end school as their teacher tries to reason with me. Then the cafeteria is closed and...
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W.D.'s Review of FOURTH AND ORCHARD
Fourth And Orchard deals with sibling rivalry in an all too real and dark way. The two, rather young, brothers develop a one-way jealousy that begins to erupt in one brother to the shock and surprise...
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W.D.'s Review of THE DEVIL IN ME
The Devil In Me is a psychological thriller of sorts with heavy handed, biblical allusions, below average acting, and a frustrating ending but regardless of all of that, I cannot say the film wasn't...
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W.D.'s Review of GUILT RIDDEN
Guilt Ridden has a great premise running for it. The idea of a Doctor Phil type, TV show and everything, becoming a dark, twisted, and tragic killer. It sounds as though the script would piratically...
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W.D.'s Review of SUBURBAN BACKLOT
Suburban Backlot deals with a familiar group of friends trying to make a movie. At first, a monster movie but when they're called out, they decide to up the ante and make a film worthy of an upcoming...
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W.D.'s Review of GUT
Gut is a hard film to watch, downright unbearable. For horror, that's high praise now of days. Rarely can a film from the genre really surprise us, actually scare us. If you only saw the major...
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W.D.'s Review of SHADES OF TREASON
Shades of Treason is, above all else, fascinating. It wants to tell the story of Jonh Walker, the American soldier who joined the Taliban before the September 11 attacks. However, it takes immense...
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An Interview with Suburban Backlot
After my screening of Suburban Backlot, I was able to catch up with the filmmakers, local UCF graduates. Just a few quick thoughts. My review of the film can be found here and the official Facebook...
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An Interview with William J. Stribling
During the festival, I was able to catch up with William J. Stribling, writer and director of Beyond Belief. This interview was recorded before the awards ceremony but he is the current holder of the...
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An Interview With Loren Lambert
After my screening of Shades of Treason (my review is available here), I was able to catch up with the screenwriter of the film, Loren Lambert, afterwards. Just some quick thoughts regarding the film....
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Orlando Film Festival Day 3: Of Movies and Guts
Sorry for the delay with this post as it's currently the 5th day of the festival but when you're getting home too late and waking up too early each day, it's easy for certain duties to get lost in the...
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W.D.'s Review of Nic & Jerry Get OFF
Documentaries are a strange beast. They can literally come in any form, any size, defy any rules. Every now and then, a challenging, daring documentary comes around that rejuvenates the genre. Some...
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W.D.'s Review of Not Today
Not Today is a hard film to talk about it. It's subject matter is no doubt important, the plight of the dalits. The film obviously possesses great production value but the film carries other baggage...
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W.D.'s Review of RESOLUTION
Resolution is a film from the Tribeca Film Festival that has, thankfully, made its way over to OFF. There are few films that are intimately attached and unique to the film medium. Stories that can only...
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2012 Orlando Film Festival Awards Ceremony
As Saturday night came to a close, it was time for the annual Orlando Film Festival Awards. I must admit, up front, that I wasn't in the ideal position for this and I left the tripod at home because...
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Orlando Film Festival Day 4: Of Festivals And Awards
This post is rather late, sadly, but life is always chaotic. To get this post up in reasonable time, I skipped over reviewing two films I saw that Saturday. If you're curious, the found-footage,...
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W.D.'s Top 100 Favorite Films Of All Time
Today is my birthday. A special birthday, in fact. As someone who has spent so much of their life watching and talking about film, I am routinely asked what my favorite film is. The answer is that I...
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MegaCon 2013 | Star Trek: TNG Cast Panel (Spiner/Dorn/Burton/Crosby)
Star Trek: The Next Generation's Data (Brent Spiner), Worf (Michael Dorn), La Forge (Levar Burton), and Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby) came together on the opening night of MegaCon to reminiscent and answer...
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RETRO WAVE: Caleb takes it all off for FULL FRONTAL
Released in 2002 after the critical and Oscar-winning success of Erin Brochovich and Traffic plus the commercial success of Ocean’s Eleven, Steven Soderbergh’s Full Frontal sort of came and went. Shot...
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RETRO WAVE: Sam Peckinpah's MAJOR DUNDEE
Sam Peckinpah’s epic western Major Dundee is nothing if not a fascinating piece of film history: ambitious scope, astounding production values, quality performances and a director with vision combined...
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On My Screen – Uncut and XXL Version
Hey everyone! On My Screen is going to be my new, revamped take on What Am I Watching, which was a weekly column where I wrote about the various movies and television shows I had been watching...
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The Geeks Go Over Their Favorites Films of 2013, So Far
Over at Geek New Wave Headquarters, we've been going over some of our favorite movies to be released so far this year. We decided to put together a post putting together each of our top five films so...
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RETRO WAVE: Walter Hill's THE DRIVER is a thrilling existential noir
I can remember perusing through the DVD section at my local Borders in junior high school and coming across the DVD for Walter Hill’s 1978 film The Driver. The DVD’s cover design didn’t particularly...
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W.D.'s Review of CHASTITY BITES
My coverage of the Orlando Film Festival has inexplicitly turned into “directorial debut” month as I cover yet another debut. The debut of director John Knowles and writer Lotti Knowles, a married...
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Catch Up on Your Halloween-themed Movie Viewing!
It’s that time of year again geeks: when the horror lover in all of us is free to indulge daily in our favorite horror films. From Psycho to Troll 2, horror fanatics don’t simply love watching horror...
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Caleb's Top Ten First-Time Films of 2013
I watch a lot of movies in a year. The average person might even say my viewing habits are excessive. This year I’ve been keeping track of everything I watch, and I’ve put together a list of my biggest...
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"I got Scarface on repeat. Constant y'all!" - Caleb's Top-Ten Films of 2013
It is time again for best-of lists. Mine is coming out a little bit later than most, but that’s primarily because I had a few big releases to catch up on. Even though I crammed about 15 2013 releases...
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SEDUCED AND ABANDONED: Alec Baldwin Follows the Money
James Toback and Alec Baldwin’s documentary Seduced and Abandoned, which premiered on HBO last year, chronicles the two filmmakers’ attempts to procure funding at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival for a...
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