No play ever celebrated arrested development quite so amusingly as Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth, a shambling off-Broadway hit from 1996 now revived starring Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and an ingenue named Tavi Gavinson, all making their Broadway debuts. The production is the latest transfer by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, and as staged by Anna D. Shapiro, it’s typical of that celebrated troupe in its physicality combined with thoughtfulness.
The time is the 1980s and the setting is the apartment of Dennis (Culkin), who passes the time selling weed and coke while waiting for his life to happen. When his equally vacant but much milder friend Warren (Cera, of Juno and Arrested Development) shows up with $15,000 stolen from his possibly mobbed-up father, the boys consider several options: using the money to score a major drug deal and make even more money; return it before Warren’s father discovers...
The time is the 1980s and the setting is the apartment of Dennis (Culkin), who passes the time selling weed and coke while waiting for his life to happen. When his equally vacant but much milder friend Warren (Cera, of Juno and Arrested Development) shows up with $15,000 stolen from his possibly mobbed-up father, the boys consider several options: using the money to score a major drug deal and make even more money; return it before Warren’s father discovers...
- 9/12/2014
- by Jeremy Gerard
- Deadline
Film4 FrightFest will be screening a record twenty short films, twelve of them world premieres, at this year’s August event at the Vue West End, Leicester Square – including the latest from director Federico Zampaglione entitled Remember, the Fiona Dourif starring She (which I backed on Kickstarter many moons ago) and the second Jessica Cameron-starring production showing at Frightfest, the UK-lensed short The Tour.
Spearheading this year’s selection is the world premiere of Show Pieces, three tales of terror written by Alan Moore, the genius 2000 Ad writer behind Watchmen, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell and V For Vendetta. Moore has never previously written specifically for the screen, until now. Directed by his close friend and internationally acclaimed photographer Mitch Jenkins, this interconnected trilogy kicks off with. ‘Act of Faith’ in which a young woman looking for the next step in sexual excitement unfortunately finds it. ‘Jimmy...
Spearheading this year’s selection is the world premiere of Show Pieces, three tales of terror written by Alan Moore, the genius 2000 Ad writer behind Watchmen, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell and V For Vendetta. Moore has never previously written specifically for the screen, until now. Directed by his close friend and internationally acclaimed photographer Mitch Jenkins, this interconnected trilogy kicks off with. ‘Act of Faith’ in which a young woman looking for the next step in sexual excitement unfortunately finds it. ‘Jimmy...
- 7/11/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Welcome to the fourth edition of a new monthly feature here on Nerdly – Back This! – where we take a look at some of the cool content taking the crowdfunding route on sites such as Indiegogo, Sponsume and Kickstarter. This month we’re spotlighting two new projects – one comic/graphic novel and one (short) film, which comes from a pair of British filmmakers and is a project that I’ve personally backed.
If you’d like us to consider your project to feature in a future edition of Back This!, make sure to drop us a line.
She
A few weeks ago I reviewed Shortcuts to Hell: Volume 1, a British anthology featuring the 26 finalists in the Frightfest/Media Mogul 2013 short film competition. Whilst the anthology was absolutely packed with some superb shorts, it’s safe to say that one of the highlights was “Sweet 6teen” by Chelsey Burdon. Well now Burdon has,...
If you’d like us to consider your project to feature in a future edition of Back This!, make sure to drop us a line.
She
A few weeks ago I reviewed Shortcuts to Hell: Volume 1, a British anthology featuring the 26 finalists in the Frightfest/Media Mogul 2013 short film competition. Whilst the anthology was absolutely packed with some superb shorts, it’s safe to say that one of the highlights was “Sweet 6teen” by Chelsey Burdon. Well now Burdon has,...
- 10/21/2013
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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