The deadline for the competition category Cartoons for Teens and for the feature length film competition AniMovie has been extended to January 15, 2013. Eligibility for Cartoons for Teens includes animated series, Anime series and cut scenes for youths aged between 12 and 18 years. AniMovie is open to animated feature-length films with a running […]
Hot Docs announces that its January Doc Soup in Toronto will be Portrait of Wally, directed by Andrew Shea. Called “a cinematic masterwork about a painted masterpiece,” by The Huffington Post, Portrait of Wally will screen on Wednesday, January 9, at 6:30 p.m. and 9:15 p.m., and on Thursday, January 10, at 6:45 p.m. at […]
The Digital Media Summit returns March 19 & 20, 2013 to Toronto’s Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel. The two-day conference will unite the worlds of social media and interactive marketing to bring digital branding to the forefront and examine successful engagement strategies for brands, business and media. Presentations will address the future of social media, […]
Jeff Ross, the founder of SF IndieFest, will join the Santa Cruz Film Festival to direct the festival. Ross has been in the independent film festival industry for over 15 years. SCFF invites the public to meet Jeff and his family on January 4th, First Friday, from 6-8pm at NextSpace,101 Cooper Street, Santa Cruz, CA […]
by Allan Tong for FILMbutton Peter Jackson returns with a new chapter in his enormously successful Lord of The Rings series. Audiences meet a younger and more reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), who sets out on a journey to the Lonely Mountain after being coaxed by the wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen). The […]
by Allan Tong for FILMbutton Rebels attack a poor village somewhere in Africa and force 12-year-old Komona to shoot her parents in cold blood. The rebels force her into their child army where they regularly beat her and teach her to fire an AK-47. After drinking “magic milk” Komona sees her dead parents, who warn […]
by Allan Tong for FILMbutton Tom Cruise plays action hero in this above-average thriller adapted from Lee Child’s bestselling novel. Jack Reacher opens with a sniper picking off five victims on a sunny day in Pittsburgh. The cops quickly catch him, but the alleged killer denies everything. Instead of an attorney, he demands to […]
By Allan Tong for FILMbutton The latest Bond flick is the most exciting movie of 2012. Daniel Craig returns as 007, but this time he’s boozing and womanizing in the tropics until deadly attacks on fellow MI6 agents summons him back to London. His boss, M (a brilliant Judi Dench), dispatches the out-of-shape spy to […]
by Allan Tong for FILMbutton Brad Pitt is Jackie Cogan, a hitman hired to restore order after three dumb junkies rob a card game run by the Mob. In other words, the junkies rip off the wrong people and Cogan is dispatched to set these boys straight with a shotgun. What Killing Them Softly really […]
The African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) has named Zero Dark Thirty as the Best Picture of 2012. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the Columbia Pictures release captured a majority vote by the organization, which is comprised of leading African-American media professionals from across the nation. The organization will formally present this year’s honors during a private […]
