Archive for the tag 'SXSW'

Personal Site Number 3: Is It Really Necessary?

I think so. I”ve decided that I really like to segment my online life.
This started a couple years ago when I ran a website where I frequently expressed my political views and through another site of mine, a movie review site, someone at my company realized I had a lot going on online.
Now I was […]

Steve Blogging on August 7th, 2007

King Corn - SXSW Premiere

Been a while since I”ve actually seen this movie, so this review probably won”t do it justice, but this documentary tells the story of 2 people moving out to the midwest and buying there own acre of land to grow corn and follow it through the production process.
What we find out over the course of […]

Steve Uncategorized on April 4th, 2007

Suffering Man’s Charity - SXSW Premiere

This was an… extreme film to say the least. Graphic in its use of language and violence and extreme in its performances, this film was quite an experience.
The performances in this film, which basically amounted to a two person play, were way over the top while staying quite entertaining. Alan Cumming, in I believe his […]

Steve Uncategorized on March 24th, 2007

Diggers - SXSW Premiere

This is an enjoyable film. Lean, tight, not a lot of fluff. It has a direction and stays with it till the end.
A nice, dramatic turn for Paul Rudd, who I”m used to seeing in comedy, playing a soon to be out of work clam digger in 1970′’s Long Island, as the larger corporations move […]

Steve Uncategorized on March 23rd, 2007

Knocked Up - Premiere

This will probably go down as the best movie appearing at SXSW this year, and the most popular.
The lines to get into this movie were unlike any of the other films I had seen for any film at the festival, including the opening night premiere of ‘The Lookout.’ And the movie does not disappoint in […]

Steve Uncategorized on March 12th, 2007