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MOVIE REVIEW . Compound Eye [Mill Valley Film Festival]

by Chris   ⋅   October 5, 2007   ⋅   Comment now

Despite the proliferation of cheap digital recording mechanisms, cinema verite is something you don’t really see attempted these days. Sure, you have your Dogme style independent films, with their handheld DV camerawork and natural lighting, but the realism provided by their adherence to one or more of the movement’s 10 simple rules more often than [...]

New Puffy, Love Psychedelico, and Dragon Ash

by Chris   ⋅   August 21, 2007   ⋅   Comment now

So I’ve been getting a bit tired of the junk videos on YouTube, both content and quality wise, so I started looking around. I came across Veoh, which actually has a whole bunch of music videos and tv shows, at some pretty decent bitrates. Oh yah, and no 10 minute limitations on videos.
Anyways, here are [...]

DVD REVIEW [EARLY] . You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone

by Kris   ⋅   July 6, 2007   ⋅   Comment [1]

Hunched over like he has a hernia and strumming his guitar, Texas native Roger “Roky” Erickson interjects the melody with screeching wails inspired by Little Richard and James Brown and surprisingly “Oh Holy Night” from his churchy childhood. During opening interviews with him and his exes in the documentary You’re Gonna Miss Me When [...]

Fur: an Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus movie review

by Kris   ⋅   June 17, 2007   ⋅   Comments [4]

JUST SAY NO to Zaph Chancery font! How can a film with art direction and cinematography so rich start out with credit lines so faulted? It almost reduces it to a Made for Television style, when this film deserves so much better than that.
Behind the (ugh) titles, we see a woman on a [...]

MOVIE REVIEW . We Are the Strange

by Kris   ⋅   June 5, 2007   ⋅   Comments [3]

This review is so long overdue that a serendipitous run-in with the writer/director prompted a strict reminder. M Dot Strange (aka: Michael Belmont) is so completely casual and San Jose-centric that he frequents a local boba tea place, even today as he types out an article for Wired Magazine (August issue — be [...]

Trailer Watch . Kantoku - Banzai!, The Brave One, Rise: The Blood Hunter, and more.

by Chris   ⋅   June 2, 2007   ⋅   Comment now

Yep. It’s that time again. A nice selection of trailers for you to peruse. Check-check em out. 
Kantoku - Banzai! . New Takeshi Kitano! Need I say more? Check it out here.
The Brave One. New Jodie Foster film. I can’t get this one to play at the moment, but you can try, here.
Gegege no Kitarou.  Kids film featuring Yokai [...]

MOVIE REVIEW [SCREENER] . The Man from Earth

by Kris   ⋅   May 28, 2007   ⋅   Comment now

If a friend you’ve known for 10 years suddenly made plans to leave town without saying goodbye, wouldn’t you be a little alarmed? If he was leaving a new promotion, a budding relationship, a slew of colleagues and comrades, wouldn’t you be a teensy bit suspicious? What if he told you he was [...]

Murder Party movie review he-said-she-said screener!

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   May 28, 2007   ⋅   Comments [3]

Murder Party
SHE SAID:
Somewhere there is a man who looks like Chris Elliot, but you will actually care if he dies. Chris Sharp plays Christopher S. Hawley, a totally blah, totally random alprazolam-popping traffic cop whose sorry socialization solely involves interactions with his cat. One Halloween, when the battle for the armchair is again lost to [...]

DVD REVIEW . The Motel

by Chris   ⋅   February 14, 2007   ⋅   Comments [3]

Michael Kang’s The Motel, an adaptation of Ed Lin’s Waylaid, is a painfully funny take on adolescence and the inherent isolation felt by those undergoing puberty. It is the tale of a thirteen year-old boy, Ernest Chin, whose family runs and lives in a low rate motel along a New Jersey bypass road. Being that [...]

MOVIE REVIEW [SHORT FILM] . Sex, Love & Z-Parts

by Chris   ⋅   February 5, 2007   ⋅   Comments [3]

The second short film to be reviewed on Dreamlogic.net comes to us from Marcus Russel, a Los Angeles resident, filmmaker, and philosopher. His Sex, Love & Z-Parts “The Prequel” is a neo-noir/heist/black comedy that aims to represent Generation X’ers as they are, rather than as the media perceives them. Being a proud member of the [...]

MOVIE REVIEW . Lonesome Jim

by Kris   ⋅   September 20, 2006   ⋅   Comments [3]

I’ve always held a soft spot in my heart for Casey Affleck, ever since he called Jason Lee a “tracer” in Chasing Amy. As if lines couldn’t get any better, there he was in Good Will Hunting slurring “want a double burrrrger” and “gimme my fuckin’ sammich”. Let us not forget his very [...]

MOVIE REVIEW . Thumbsucker

by Kris   ⋅   September 10, 2006   ⋅   Comment [1]

“It’s an understandable habit… what’s strange is that people ever quit.” Words of wisdom from shamen/orthodontist Perry (Keanu Reeves) right before he hypnotizes Justin Cobb (Lou Pucci), a 17-year-old chronic thumb abuser. “From now on, your thumb will taste like echinachea”, and it does. It “cures” Justin of his affliction, but not [...]

INDIE SHORT REVIEW . Dick Ho: Asian Male Porn Star

by Chris   ⋅   April 24, 2006   ⋅   Comment now

So we’re starting a new segment at Dreamlogic.net, reviewing short film submissions by local filmmakers. Our first Submission comes to us from San Francisco’s Jeffrey Lei. A mockumentary about a fictional Asian male porn megastar in the 1970’s titled, simply enough, Dick Ho: Asian Male Porn Star.
A mix of big foot documentary and television’s Unsolved [...]

Bunny and Clydo at LAKIFF

by Chris   ⋅   September 16, 2005   ⋅   Comment now

I actually got this about five minutes ago from Giant Robot’s Filmmatters division. What sparked my interest is Rocky Jo’s short film, Bunny and Clydo is playing. Kris and I actually made a road trip from the San Francisco Bay Area all the way out to Austin, TX to help with the filming last summer. [...]

Napoleon Dynamite movie review screener!

by Kris   ⋅   May 1, 2004   ⋅   Comments [11]

Editor’s Note: This was actually one of the first Napoleon Dynamite reviews on the web. Go Kris!
VOTE FOR PEDRO On April 29th, we were invited to see a pre-sneak preview of what I believe will be one of the top comedic surprises for the Summer. If you like the “witty banter” between SpongeBob Squarepants and [...]

Love Object he-said-she-said movie review

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   February 14, 2004   ⋅   Comments [2]

HOW ROMANTIC ARE YOU? We were lucky enough to be able to catch one of the midnight Valentines Day screenings of Love Object at San Francisco’s Independent Film Festival.
HE-SAID: Inspired by the cadaverous “beauties” of RealDoll.com, Love Object is the story of Kenneth (Desmond Harrington), a socially inept technical writer who falls head over [...]

Cheerleader Ninjas movie review

by Chris   ⋅   December 14, 2003   ⋅   Comments [15]

I first heard of Cheerleader Ninjas when I was looking up titles for my Balls Out DVD releases* column two weeks ago. I can’t say I expected much, from the title, and being that the film has a Rock and Roll High School sensibility only at a less than Troma-quality budget, my expectations were lowered [...]

Dopamine movie review

by Kris   ⋅   December 12, 2003   ⋅   Comment now

GIVE INDIE A CHANCE Ah, the brutality and courageous side of LOVE. Love is what we, as social creatures aspire towards, in an indifferent sea of billions and billions of souls. But if you stripped away all of the magic, you’d be left with mere equations of evolutionary evidence. Some argue that Love is only [...]

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