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Cinequest 2022: The Smoke Master
I’m sure you have wondered, as I have, what would it be like if Cheech and Chong had produced a Drunken Master martial arts action film. No, well, perhaps you should start thinking about it. Continue reading
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Tagged Cinequest, Cinequest 2022, Drunken Boxing, Kung Fu, The Smoke Master
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Cinequest 2022: Futra Days
Traveling forward in time isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, as Sean Graves learns the hard way. He’s supposed to spy on his future self to determine if he should pursue a new romantic love interest. Even though he’s … Continue reading
Posted in Cinequest, Entertainment, Film, Movies, SciFi Fantasy
Tagged Brandon Sklenar, Cinequest, Cinequest 2022, Independent, Rosanna Arquette, Tania Raymonde, time travel
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Cinequest 2022: Dash
The premise is fairly simple. This is a dashcam video of a night in the life of a LA rideshare driver. The company he works for shares the name of the movie; Dash. And to more than one extent, we see that we’re dashing towards the disastrous culmination a number of bad decisions in this driver’s life. Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Molina, Cinequest, Cinequest 2022, Dash, One Take, Sean Perry
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Cinequest 2022: Fanga
Tale as old as time… we all know the song from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. And we’ve probably have seen a production other than the animated Disney cartoon. But this is a movie truly a “tale as old as time” given its roots in folktales and myth. And with Fanga, writer/director Max Gold is going back to the source material, and added a modern twist. Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Snaedal, Cinequest, Cinequest 2022, Fanga, Ingi Hrafn Hilmarsson, Max Gold, Review
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Cinequest 2022: The Day I Found a Girl in the Trash
The Day I Found a Girl in the Trash is a near-future science fiction story. Typically near-future SF is anywhere from five to ten years out from “today.” This allows the writer/producer to focus on a smaller aspect of change. Continue reading
How To Survive Cinequest 2022
A viewer’s guide to what USA Today readers voted the Best Film Festival. I’m happy, so happy, to update this pre-Covid-shutdown article for use in 2022. This year Cinequest moves back from virtual film festival to one of in-person smiles, … Continue reading
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Tagged Carmen, Cinequest, Dash, Fanga, Jim Gaffigan, Linoleum, Survival Guilde
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Why I Judge Books by Their Cover
Book Judgement is someplace where I can review and express my love for the manufacture of books, the binding, typography… Continue reading
Posted in Books, Design, Film, Media, Movies, Personal, Random thoughts, Review, SciFi Fantasy, Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tagged book, book judgement, design, fanboy, geek, media, reviews, Star Wars
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Cinequest 2018: Peaches
We all know the rules of time travel by now. Never travel to a time and place where you’re sure to meet yourself. Never do it twice at the same time. Three times is a very bad idea. And a dozen or so… well that could be real trouble. Continue reading
Cinequest 2018:
Charlie and Hannah’s Grand Night Out
This is one of those cases where you’re best prepared when you’re unprepared.
Trust me. This film is what film festivals are for. Continue reading
Posted in Audience, Cinequest, Entertainment, Film, Media, Movies, Review, SciFi Fantasy, Writing
Tagged Absurdist, Bert Scholiers, Cinequest, Cinequest 2018, Clever, comedy, Daphne Wellens, Dialogue, Evelien Bosmans, Frances Lefebure, Patrick Vervueren
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Cinequest 2018: Hunting Lands
The Hunting Lands invites us along for a hunter’s pursuit, stalking a killer of a different kind. Continue reading
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Tagged Cinequest, Cinequest 2018, Hunting Lands, movie, Review
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Cinequest 2018: How to Cinequest!
As regular listeners to the Fanboy Planet Podcast know, San Jose’s award-winning Cinequest film festival opened last night. Opening night at Cinequest typically features an independent film that has or is expected to shortly gain general distribution, and last night’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Cinequest, Cinequest 2018, Fanboy Planet, Festival, How To, Movies, Review, San Jose
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The Dark Tower – Defending the Rose
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
Probably the best opening line in literature. Yeah, better than Call me Ishmael.
(Seriously Ishmael, I was just asking you for a name to write on your coffee cup!) Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cinequest, Entertainment, Film, Geeking around, Media, Movies, Personal, Random thoughts, Review, SciFi Fantasy, Thoughts
Tagged Adaptation, Idris Elba, Movies, Stephen King, The Dark Tower
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Cinequest 2017: Two Euro Thrillers – Loop and Pyromaniac
Granted, like any other art, not every film is for everyone. We try to focus on giving you reviews that meet our fannish criteria. And today, on the fourth day of San Jose’s Cinequest we have two thrillers, one with a science fiction bent, that you may want to check out. Continue reading
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Tagged Cinequest, Cinequest 2017, loop, norway, pyromaniac, science fiction, thriller, time travel
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Cinequest 2016: Encores and Last Chances
We’re down to the wire at Cinequest! Late last night, the Cinequest encores were announced. These make up the bulk of Sunday programming in the festival’s final day. As I predicted, there are still too many great films to see them all. … Continue reading
Posted in Cinequest, Entertainment, Film, Media, Movies, Review
Tagged Animated Shorts, Bendito Machine V - Pull The Trigger, Carface, Carlo, Cinequest, Cows, Creedmoria, Dependents Day, Fulfilament, Golden Shot, If I Was God, Love is All You Need?, My Heart Attack, Taking Flight, The Empire of Corpses, The Forest Paper, Welcome to My Life, Zombies
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Cinequest 2016: Catch-up Reviews
Reviews from Cinequest 2016: Demimonde, Eye in the Sky, Friends Effing Friends Effing Friends, Lost In Munich, Parabellium, The Phoenix Incident Continue reading
Cinequest 2016: Embers
It’s a quiet armageddon. Every day you wake with a limited knowledge of the world, of yourself, and of those around you. Some smaller things do stick, but the cohesiveness of what we were, of who we were, is gone. Waking experience teases some of this out to consciousness, but we still see a stranger in the mirror. Continue reading
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Tagged Cinequest, degenerative, Embers, End of the World, Film, loss, memory, quiet, Review, Virus
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Cinequest 2016: Sight Unseen Recommendations
Now that Cinequest is fully upon us, I need to touch on a small subject of interest to those of you going to the festival. There are WAY too many great films to see everything. Way too many. And some are terribly hard to review for reasons that will be obvious in a few paragraphs. But luckily those same programs are very easy to recommend, and do fall on my “Don’t Miss” list.
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Tagged Animation, art, Cinequest, comedy, documentary, Film, foreign, High school, international, mindbenders, recommendations, short films, shorts
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Cinequest 2016: The Brainwashing of My Dad
A longer commute, talk radio, a loving father turns into an angry, bitter, obsessive… brainwashed by a poisonous media. Continue reading
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Tagged brainwashing, conservatism, documentary, family, fox news, hate radio, personality change, politics
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Cinequest 2016: Friends Effing Friends Effing Friends
My first must-see entry from the Cinequest film festival is a sexy story that takes the “friends with benefits” motif to the next level. Continue reading
Posted in Cinequest, Entertainment, Film, Media, Movies, Review
Tagged breakups, Christina Gooding, Cinequest, couples, Friends Effing, Graham Skipper, Jillian Leigh, lies, Quincy Rose, Relationships, secrets, Sex, Tyler Dawson, Vanessa Dubasso
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