Cardinal Studios’ first outing is promising though puzzling Will Ferrer May 20, 2015 0 Comments The first official student work produced under the newly introduced Cardinal Studios banner, “Prisoner,” a short film directed by Becky Aydin (’18) and written by Alexander Kucy (’17), is both... Read More »
‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ is a brilliant exercise in lunacy Will Ferrer May 15, 2015 0 Comments “Mad Max: Fury Road” is insane. So far beyond the realm of the typical, the latest installment in George Miller’s post-apocalyptic series can only be described as the deranged work of a genuine... Read More »
Live-tweet recap: Netflix’s ‘Grace and Frankie’ Will Ferrer May 9, 2015 0 Comments Television critic Magellan Pfluke muses on the first episode of Netflix's new series starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Read More »
SFIFF gets trippy: Salvador’s ‘Vincent’ and Attieh and Garcia’s ‘H.’ Will Ferrer May 8, 2015 0 Comments PAs the San Francisco International Film Festival came to a close yesterday, I was able to catch two more films before they left town for good. Surreal and unusual, both films — Thomas Salvador’s... Read More »
Joss Whedon’s ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ is good but lacks spark Will Ferrer May 1, 2015 2 Comments It’s been a couple years since Earth’s mightiest heroes converged on New York to save the world and its mortal occupants in Marvel’s “The Avengers.” Since then, our beloved protectors of the... Read More »
Thomas Vinterberg’s ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’ is far from vapid Will Ferrer May 1, 2015 0 Comments A young woman is divided by the pressures of society, the pangs of her heart and the good sense of her head in Danish auteur Thomas Vinterberg’s periodically flawed though always romantic... Read More »
A look at this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival Will Ferrer April 21, 2015 0 Comments Bringing together a vast assortment of films and filmmakers, the annual festival incorporates highlights from Cannes, Toronto and Sundance as well as a number of as yet unreleased world premieres. The... Read More »
Yahoo Screen’s original series ‘Other Space’ is delightfully stupid Will Ferrer April 13, 2015 0 Comments Paul Feig’s delightfully eccentric “Other Space” begins not with a bang but with a “fart-sneeze.” In the year 2105, space officer Stewart Lipinski (Karan Soni) inadvertently passes a... Read More »