Each month, Randomville profiles an artist that Flipswitch PR provides us. For August, we’re changing things up a little by taking a look at the documentary/album/project, The Laya Project. Don’t worry, there is music involved! Laya Project Trailer 02 (Song-Tapatam) – Watch the best video clips here Laya Project’s Tsunami of Music: Sounds Embrace Survival […]
The 25-day cinema-lovers marathon that is The Seattle International Film Festival ended on Sunday. Of course our two reviewers couldn’t see all 408 entries, but they did make a sizeable dent in the catalog. Read below to find out which movies they think deserve special mention. The festival awards were announced Sunday afternoon. The SIFF […]
(Rob Benedict, Michael Weithorn, Daniel Yelsky and Jenna Fischer at the world premiere of A Little Help. Photo by April Brimer). Although directors don’t like to hear this, some movies seem destined for success on Netflix rather than in theaters: you wouldn’t go out of your way to see them, but they’re a pleasant surprise […]
So here we are, at the end of yet another decade. We figure that all of the other entertainment sources out there are going to have all of the “Best Of’s” for the past decade, but really, won’t they all have about the same answers anyway? Instead, Randomville is choosing to focus on what happened […]
WATCHING SHORT FILMS IN STRANGERS’ HOUSES= AWKWARDLY AWESOME!! So when was the last time you attended a film festival that was in your neighborhood, and in strangers’ homes? The idea here is that short films (local and from all over the world, actually) are displayed in the homes of local volunteers. These willing participants open […]
And so a few weeks later, Fantasia Fest comes to a close (check out Part 1 of our coverage here). Here is a round up of the final five films I managed to see. There would have been more but I had to miss a few due to other commitments. In all honesty though, I […]
Fantasia Fest is a celebration of fantasy, horror, and Asian cinema now in its 13th year in Montreal. But since it’s brand new to me, I’m throwing myself into as many movies as possible. The festival runs from July 9th to the 29th. What will follow periodically here are mini reviews and impressions on the […]
This year during The Seattle International Film Festival, we caught the film Against the Current and gave it a rating of four out of five. The sophomore effort by director Peter Callahan is the story about a seemingly “average joe” who decides to set a life goal by swimming the length of The Hudson River. […]
The 35th Seattle International Film Festival is over. Over the last 25 days, SIFF presented 203 narrative features, 11 archival features, 54 documentary features, and 124 short films from 62 countries, including 31 World Premieres (10 features, 21 shorts), 45 North American Premieres (36 features, 9 shorts), and 13 US Premieres (10 features, 3 shorts). […]
Last year I wrote about Seattle’s “summer of film,†so-called because an unusual number of features were shot in the area. We’re about to see the fruits of that labor as the Seattle International Film Festival, which runs May 21st to June 14th, will spotlight in its Northwest Connections program twenty-nine films recently made in Washington […]
