HEALING THE FATHER WOUND: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER JUSTIN HUNT
“Absent” director Justin Hunt discusses the Father Wound, Metallica’s James Hetfield, and why “That’s Not Possible” will never fit into his filmmaking vocabulary…
Posted on December 26, 2011 by KJ Doughton
HELL AND BACK AGAIN
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 88 minutes |
Ultimately, the message of “Hell and Back” is clear. For many soldiers, life on the battlefield carries with it a crucial sense of clarity and mission…
Posted on December 12, 2011 by KJ Doughton
ELITE SQUAD: THE ENEMY WITHIN
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 115 minutes |
Screw the Dark Knight. In Brazil, a Battalion Beret is mightier than the Cape…
Posted on December 2, 2011 by KJ Doughton
ABSENT
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 92 minutes |
John Eldredge, author of “Wild at Heart,” speaks of the Father Wound – a permanent, life-shaping sense of mourning and misdirection that results when dad ditches the family nest…
Posted on November 17, 2011 by KJ Doughton
THE THING (2011)
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 103 minutes |
A new “Thing” has slithered into town. It still has the tentacles and slime, but no balls…
Posted on October 14, 2011 by KJ Doughton
DRIVE
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 100 minutes |
“Drive” makes us care. And I’m not sure how filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn pulls this off…
Posted on September 28, 2011 by KJ Doughton
INSANELY POPULAR: H.P. LOVECRAFT AND “THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS”
2011 FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! Director Sean Branney and producers Andrew Lehman and David Robertson on “The Whisperer in Darkness” and the enduring appeal of H.P. Lovecraft…
Posted on July 26, 2011 by KJ Doughton
POINT BLANK
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 84 minutes |
BOOM! “Point Blank” will shoot you from a cannon, and you won’t hit the ground until its closing credits…
Posted on July 25, 2011 by KJ Doughton
THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 103 minutes |
2011 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! “The Whisperer in Darkness” conveys a sense of human sanity being unraveled by too much forbidden fruit…
Posted on June 25, 2011 by KJ Doughton
ROADIE
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 95 minutes |
2011 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! “Roadie” scares the hell out of me. It’s like “Anvil” without the uplift, a true horror movie for those fortysomething rockaholics who find themselves unwillingly trading in raging for aging…
Posted on June 17, 2011 by KJ Doughton
DARK HORSE: INTERVIEW WITH CINDY MEEHL AND BUCK BRANNAMAN
Cindy Meehl and Buck Brannaman talk about on “Buck,” an extraordinary documentary and one of the best films at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival…
Posted on June 11, 2011 by KJ Doughton
FINDING KIND
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 77 minutes |
2011 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! According to Lauren Parsekian’s “Finding Kind,” teen girls aren’t made of sugar, spice, and everything nice. They wield emotional daggers, striking often and with extreme prejudice…
Posted on June 9, 2011 by KJ Doughton
DONOR
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 84 minutes |
2011 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! Hate men? “Donor” will feed your fire. Lumbering towards its staggeringly depressing finale, Mark Afable Meily’s potent downer rolls out a human doormat, then soils it with the dirty feet of an immature sociopath…
Posted on June 8, 2011 by KJ Doughton
BLACK DEATH
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 100 minutes |
After its final, cringe-worthy set piece, you’ll swear off horseback riding for life…
Posted on March 22, 2011 by KJ Doughton
GORE-GEOUS: INTERVIEW WITH “I SAW THE DEVIL” DIRECTOR KIM JEE-WOON
With translator in tow to cut through the language barrier, Kim Jee-woon promotes his supremely scary film before its stateside release in March…
Posted on March 4, 2011 by KJ Doughton