The Hunger Games: Not Really About The Violence
I didn’t read THE HUNGER GAMES before going to see the movie. The kids commandeered one Kindle, while Brian started it on the other Kindle, which left me last on the list. For me, that was okay. This...
View ArticleThe Raid: Redemption by Gareth Huw Evans – review
My colleague at spinetingler, author Sandra Ruttan, wrote a very good piece on a woefully overlooked little film earlier this week entitled Hunger Games: Not Really About the Violence. As a fan of the...
View ArticleFour Brothers – review
The unwritten rule wants that any interesting movie on television airs on a specialized channel and/or after 11 PM. Try to catch Blue Velvet or Dead Ringers on cable television on a decent hour. Good...
View ArticleTeaser trailer for Savages
Brian LindenmuthBrian is the non-fiction editor of Spinetingler magazine and one of the fiction editors of Snubnose Press. In addition to Spinetingler his work has appeared in Crimespree magazine and...
View ArticleNew full trailer for Savages
Soon after getting our first teaser glimpse at Savages, the highly anticipated adaptation of Don Winslow’s novel of the same name, we get a full legnth trailer. Brian LindenmuthBrian is the non-fiction...
View Article“Viscosity” by Killing Joke/Brute Force Films
Thought I’d take a quick moment to plug a short film I served as a production assistant on a while back. It’s called “Viscosity” and it’s disgustingly hilarious. It was adapted from Jedidiah Ayres’...
View ArticleFrom page to screen, for better or worse
ROGUE’S GALLERY – Where three dedicated Noirheads discuss, argue and bat around topics on all things Film Noir. With Jake Hinkson, Cullen Gallagher and Eric Beetner. CULLEN: This time I’m gonna try and...
View ArticleRogue’s Gallery: King is the new Woolrich
ROGUE’S GALLERY – Where three dedicated Noirheads discuss, argue and bat around topics on all things Film Noir. With Jake Hinkson, Cullen Gallagher and Eric Beetner. Eric Beetner leaves his brothers...
View ArticleRogue’s Gallery: Posters – the good and the bad
ROGUE’S GALLERY – Where three dedicated Noirheads discuss, argue and bat around topics on all things Film Noir. With Jake Hinkson, Cullen Gallagher and Eric Beetner. Eric: Were going lightweight this...
View ArticleKiller Joe by William Friedkin – review
The pairing of writer Tracy Letts and director William Friedkin is about as good as peanut butter and chocolate, or maybe, say, sex and violence would be more apt. When Letts adapted his play Bug for...
View ArticleLooper by Rian Johnson – review
Guys, you gotta go see Looper. Seriously, go out and pay for a ticket to this motherfucker toot-sweet and show that there’s an audience for films like this. If you don’t like remakes and movies based...
View ArticleReview: ARGO – the must-see film of 2012?
“To this day the story stands as an enduring model of international co-operation between governments.” ARGO does far more than salute the spirit of cooperation that’s existed between Canada and the...
View ArticleSeven Psychopaths by Martin McDonagh – review
Seven Psychopaths is a violent, funny, twisty crime story with a huge cast and body count but it’s also about friendship, Hollywood and – most importantly – storytelling. Writer-director Martin...
View ArticleKilling Them Softly by Andrew Dominik – review
With The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, director Andrew Dominik and star/producer Brad Pitt gave us one of the most startlingly original westerns ever made, a film that upset...
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Stoker by Chan-wook Park – review
Stoker is a take on Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt, a film about estranged “Uncle Charlie” (Matthew Goode) staying with his sister-in-law Evie (Nicole Kidman) and niece India (Mia Wasikowska) following...
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A Single Shot – trailer
A Single Shot is based on the Matthew F Jones novel of the same name. Jones is an under-read writer, hopefully this will change that. The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and...
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Only God Forgives – trailer
A Bangkok police lieutenant and a gangster settle their differences in a Thai-boxing match. Brian LindenmuthBrian is the non-fiction editor of Spinetingler magazine and one of the fiction editors of...
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The Place Beyond the Pines – trailer
A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a...
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Sightseers by Ben Wheatley – review
Ben Wheatley is one of the Nerd’s favorite filmmakers working today and his Sightseers only further reinforces my already sturdy-as-all-hell convictions. With this, Kill List and Down Terrace,...
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Anthony Neil Smith’s HOGDOGGIN’ is being adapted
My buddy Paul von Stoetzel announced at last night’s Noir @ the Bar event in Minneapolis that he is adapting one of the Nerd’s favorite novels of recent years, Anthony Neil Smith’s Hogdoggin’. Here’s...
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