Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is, in a single word, brutal. Unflinchingly, gorily, misanthropically, even gleefully brutal, to a point that a couple scenes were so ruthless they will churn your guts. Now I survived Irreversible, so that’s saying a lot. This observation is neither a complaint nor praise, but rather a (obvious?) comment on a […]

Award-winning filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg casts his talented cinematic eye on the world of Pollination. The footage is taken from his film Wings of Life, which centers around the alarming global population crash of the honeybee. One of the most important processes to the sustenance of life on Earth, pollination still remains largely unseen by the […]

Madman Mundt and the Elf breakdown Sofia Coppola’s latest, Somewhere. The film is out in limited release in the US on December 22nd. The Elf As I write this, there’s a little mantra running through my head: I WILL NOT BE SNARKY. I will not say that Sofia Coppola’s movies get made because her dad […]

I’ve been an admirer of Matt Longue’s EmptyLA photography project for awhile (above pic). Exhibiting what Los Angeles would look like car-less and people-less, there is a simple beauty and austere loneliness to the pieces as a whole. Now cinematographer Ross Ching has taken the idea and put it into film format in his Running […]

Have you ever wondered what George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch looks like? Have you heard stories about its fabled lands, and rumors that he owned a plot the size of Rhode Island just north of San Franciciso? Well play Phillip Bloom‘s visual still life of the property and see for yourself. Director of Photography/Cinematographer Bloom was […]