Between Us deals with the harsh realities that exist in friendships, love marriage and life that are rarely depicted in films. Director Dan Mirvish, co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival, adapted the film from an Off-Broadway play by Joe Hortua. The film revolves around the lives of Carlo (Taye Diggs) and Joel (David Harbour), two friends who first met in art school, and moves between present moments and flashbacks into the past where we are introduced to Joel and his wife Sharyl (Melissa George) as they are hosting Carlo and his new wife Grace (Julie Stiles) at their large home in the Midwest. At this point we learn Joel and…
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Post-Script: Thoughts On Film, Reality, and the Boston Marathon
It’s the start of a normal working day. People mill about on the streets and in cafes, procuring the tonics they need to begin their mornings in earnest and setting off on their commutes to make it to the office; in the space between these separate but related endeavors, they catch up on current events on television. The news, as it so often can be, sings a dour note to match the day’s cloudiness, but that’s okay, because bleakness and dreariness are the tragic standard for the crowds filtering through the city’s winding, compressed avenues on their way to their respective jobs. A thundering crash, the acrid scent of burning…
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[DIFF Review]…Diving Normal
Character-driven narrative feature Diving Normal that tells the story of a love triangle that occurs when two unlikely friends fall for the same girl. The film is an adaptation of the critically acclaimed play of the same name, and centers around the lives of Fulton and Gordon (played by Philipp Karner and Scotty Crowe, respectively, who also produced and co-wrote the adapted screenplay with playwright Ashlin Halfnight). Fulton and Gordon are an odd pair; Fulton is an adorable, successful graphic novelist who has no problem attracting attention from the ladies, despite (and maybe slightly because of) brief moments of insecurity, and Gordon is his sweet, yet extremely socially awkward neighbor…
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Sweet Trailer…'R.I.P.D.'
While it may not be apparent to the average film fan, there are a lot of movies out there that are adapted from comics. Sure everyone knows Superman, Spider-Man and those properties, but now people are becoming more familiar with off-beat characters Kick-Ass and Scott Pilgrim as well as the likes of RED and the MIB. For those of you new to this table, R.I.P.D. is a short-lived and obscure but still popular Dark Horse Comics mini-series. At first glance it looks like an even-handed mix of Men In Black and Hellblazer (aka Constantine) but still looks like it’s got the legs and wacky fun to keep it from being a face plant like Cowboys &…
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[DIFF Review]…A Teacher
While A Teacher may appear on the outset to be a typical tale of the inappropriate student/teacher relationship that has become all too familiar due their sensationalized media coverage, writer/director Hannah Fidell takes an in-depth, psychological approach, asking the audience to ponder the inner workings of a mind capable of such a taboo. The film begins in medias res, though Fidell chooses not to fill us in on how a lonely teacher named Diana (Lindsay Burdge), and her student Eric (Will Brittain) who epitomizes what every teenage boy is really like, confident and carefree as if invincible, ignorant to the hard truths of the world and therefore naïve to the…
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ALL PASSES CLAIMED – Win FREE Advance Screening Passes to Marvel's 'Iron Man 3' In PLANO, TX
CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – All passes have been claimed. Thanks for your interest in Marvel’s IRON MAN 3. ———————————————————————————————————————— Even though it is still technically Spring, we’ve already kicked off the Summer movie season thanks to some great actioners already blowing up screens across the country. But things are really about to heat up thanks to Shane Black’s Iron Man 3!! GoSeeTalk is partnering with Disney and Marvel to give 36 Dallas area film fans FREE passes (admit one) to an “Advance Screening” of Iron Man 3 starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce and Ben Kingsley. The screening will take place in PLANO, TX on Tuesday, April 30th at 7:30PM. Winners will be selected Tuesday, April 23rd…
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Sweet (Make That Super) Trailer…Zack Snyder's 'Man of Steel'
There are a precious few films in 2013 that have our unwavering attention and support. Well, really there’s more than a few, but chief among the highly anticipated titles still coming down the pike are Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel. We’ve been teased in the last few trailers but nothing really moved the mercury for us like we were expecting. Today that all changes as the one-two punch of Snyder’s visuals and Christopher Nolan’s story now show us a hefty glimpse of the epicness we’re in store for this June. So let me not detain you any longer…enjoy this magnificent 3 minute trailer for Man of Steel. Not going to lie, this gives…
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CONTEST CLOSED – Win Rob Zombie’s ‘The Lords of Salem’ Prize Pack
CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – Winner has been notified. Thanks for your interest in Anchor Bay and Alliance Films‘ THE LORDS OF SALEM. ———————————————————————————————————————————— Heads up scare hounds and gore fans! GoSeeTalk is partnering with Anchor Bay and Alliance Films to promote Rob Zombie’s upcoming horror film The Lords of Salem. Following on the heels of Zombie’s no-holds barred horror films like The Devil’s Rejects comes his creepy looking spin on the lore of the Salem Witch Trials which will be released nationwide this Friday, April 19, 2013. Up for grabs in this contest is a plethora of shriek inducing goodies which includes the following Lords of Salem items: a t-shirt, a mini poster (roughly 11″x17″), wristband, nite-light, bumper sticker…
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Sweet Trailer…'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire'
We’re more than a year out from the release of last year’s The Hunger Games– which we here at Go, See, Talk! really dug– and still around eight months away from the theatrical run of the next installment in the series, Catching Fire. That’s enough to drive a fan of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian young adult sci-fi novels nuts, so we should all be thankful that Lionsgate is throwing us a bone with the release of the first official teaser for the film- even more so since the clip is pretty darn great. Catching Fire, for the uninitiated, picks up right where the last movie leaves off, putting Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence, plus…
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‘Willow Creek’ Gets An Amazing Poster
Let’s keep this short and sweet since it’s the end of the day: I might not love all of Bobcat Goldthwait’s films (I found God Bless America to be pretty repugnant despite being really, really well-crafted), but he’s an incredibly magnetic and interesting character and an exciting filmmaker. So it stands to reason that I’m pretty much guaranteed to see Willow Creek, his next picture, which happens to be premiering at this year’s Independent Film Festival of Boston. There’s really no way I can say no to kismet of that variety. But wait- there’s more. Willow Creek shows Goldthwait stepping outside his wheelhouse of dark, uncomfortable, comedy blended with social commentary- at least, that’s…
