Film in Philadelphia: March 9th Edition
In our new weekly segment we talk about what’s going on Film Wise in Philadelphia. What to look forward to Film events for Philadelphia and what is now playing in a theater near you. If you have any additions please email us @ info@cinedork.com or comment below! Events coming soon in Philadelphia: Saturday, March 10th [...]
Contest: Jeff Who Lives at Home
Is this you? Do you live at home and call people all day wishing for a better life? Do you play Wow more than you talk to girls? Do you thing the whole world is connected and all things happen for a reason? WELL THEN WE HAVE A GIFT FOR YOU!! We are giving away FREE!!!!! [...]
Interview: Jon Foy – Director of “Resurrect Dead”
Jon Foy has had a long road since winning Best Documentary Director at Sundance in 2011. He has toured with his unwavering film that looks into the mysterious Toynbee Tiles. This obsession turned film is not over with yet, with the films’ DVD release party this Monday at the Trocadero in Philadelphia (See ad to [...]
Contest: Mega Bad Movie Night – 2/9 @ The Academy of Natural Sciences
Fellow Dorks. I urge you to attend this fantastic Nerd/Geek/Dork event at the Academy of Natural Sciences on Feb 9th. Not only are they going to be playing the Incredibly Bad (for all the right reasons) The Lost World: Jurassic Park but they will be having an expert panel discuss how un-realistic the whole movie [...]
Top Cinedork Articles of 2011
Top ten lists are all over the place so here at Cinedork we decided to take our Top Ten List and make it all about ourself (how narcissistic of us). Below are the top visited articles of 2011 on Cinedork.com! 10. Interview with James Wan and Leigh Whannell for “Insidious” – We sat down with [...]
Contest: Free Contraband Screening Passes
Vibrations good like Sunkist. Many wanna know who done this! Marky Mark and I’m here to move you! Rhymes will groove you! Marky Mark in a badass Oceans Eleven knockoff with Kate Beckensale as his hot wife. Sign us Up!
Contest – Free Screening Passes – “In The Land of Blood and Honey”
Welcome back to the land of the living! Happy New Year! We are back! And starting off strong with a contest for Admit-2 passes for the new Angelina Jolie film “In the Land of Blood and Honey” The screening will be… This Wednesday – January 4th – 7:30PM – Ritz in Philadelphia Email “Info@cinedork.com” with [...]
Review: Martha Marcy May Marlene
First-time director Sean Durkin has created one of the year’s most beguiling films, which is not to say it is free of bewilderment. MMMM is a moving portrait of the mental and emotional disintegration of a refugee from a rural “cult” of young people (mostly women) drawn into the clutches of an older, tyrannical male [...]
PFF – Review: The Women in the Fifth
The Women in the Fifth Is a french Fight Club drama piece-of-crap gone horribly wrong. If you want to see a movie where Ethan Hawke is really depressed and has sex with lots of women to try and compensate for it this is the film for you. Ethan Hawke’s performance in this is comparable to [...]
Closing Night Costume Contest and Party – Philadelphia Film Festival
Who doesn’t love Halloween? A night where you can dress up to be whomever you want! You can be a princess! (Enchanted) A mountain climber! (127 Hours) A Storm Trooper (I’m not helping you with that one) A Doctor (Who?) Anyone! You can even look like a bitch (Pulp Fiction) Well get ready because the [...]
PFF – Review: The Kid With a Bike
- You’re an 11-year-old boy living in a home for orphans. – You’re insistent on finding a way to ecape at every turn. – You’d do anything to find your father who abandoned you. – You stumble on a local hairdresser willing to take you in on weekends. So begins the latest heartwrenching odyssey from [...]
PFF – Review: Melancholia
Everywhere you look these days new films are tackling mental illness, the end of the world, or both. Leave it to provocateur, Hitler commentator, and visual poet Lars Von Trier (Dogville, Antichrist, Breaking The Waves) to tie the two subjects together with an uncanny verve and a vision which, while pitch-dark, contains more than a shred [...]
PFF – Review: La Havre
It’s not that Aki Kurismaki’s Le Havre uses the director’s trademark deadpan humor to escape from life’s harsh realities. Rather, Le Havre’s exquisitely offbeat style and genuinely believable, quirky characters stand up as a commonsense solution to the film’s theme of the ethics surrounding illegal immigration. Andre Wilms is wonderful as a shoeshine man who [...]
PFF – Review: Butter
A movie about butter sculpting. Ha! As in not-so-funny…. While exhibitng a handful of moments of sharp satire, Butter is largely a toned-down send-up of a Sarah Palin/Michelle Bachman-esque character (Jennifer Garner) smack in the middle of Iowa. The film is far too schmaltzy to effectively hold up a mirror to the timidity and insipidness of [...]
PFF – Review: Miss Bala
According to the new film Miss Bala, the bizarre level of corruption in response to Mexico’s drug cartel violence infests every nook and cranny of the country’s society. Director Gerardo Naranjo offers a searing peek into this harrowing, topsy-turvy world in one of the year’s most inventive films (Mexico’s official entry into this years Academy [...]
PFF – Review: A Dangerous Method
There’s a memorable and telling line in A Dangerous Method, David Cronenberg’s intellectually stimulating film about psychoanalysis pioneers Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud and the affect a young female patient turned psychiatrist has on their relationship. Freud, happy to finally meet his younger disciple, is also careful to instruct him to stick with rigid scientific [...]
PFF – Review: Underwater Love
This parody of sorts is probably the strangest thing you could possibly see at the Philadelphia Film Festival, or ever maybe…… A tale of a factory worker who is about to get married to her kind yet sex-crazed, husband when she meets a Kappa. This…. part duck-part turtle-part human creature is a reincarnation of her [...]
Philadelphia Film Festival – Must see Films with Special Guests
LIKE WATER followed by Q&A with Director Pablo Croce Sunday, October 23; 5:10pm Ritz East Inspiring, exciting and often absolutely hilarious, this incredible portrait of Anderson Silva follows the UFC champion through the training for the most important fight of his career. Many people know of Anderson Silva as one of the greatest mixed martial [...]
PPF20 – Review – Like Crazy
A good chunk of Like Crazy is so minimal you’ll need a magnifying glass to find it. Director Drake Doremus (2010′s Douchebag, and no he didn’t win the snag award) valiantly tries to emulate masterful British director Mike Leigh by going essentially scriptless. About all this film has in common with Leigh (Another Year, Secrets [...]
PFF20 – Review – The Artist
The Artist, the nearly totally silent film shot in black-and-white, is pure stunning. If you decide to skip it based on either of those two unique characteristics, you’ll be doing yourself a major disservice. Director Michel Hazanavicius has constructed no less than a sizzling masterwork celebrating not just the silent film but the film medium [...]
Contest: Rum Diary – Pre-Screening Tickets
Who can resist Johnny Depp and Hunter S Thompson together again!? NO ONE, that’s who. We here at the Dork have a few screening tickets to see The Rum Diary next week on Wednesday October 26th at 7:30PM the Ritz Five in Philadelphia. To win all you need to do is comment below your favorite [...]
20th Annual – Philadelphia Film Festival (Our Staff Picks)
This Thursday kicks off the 20th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival (Oct 20th through Nov 3rd) and it looks to be a very interesting few weeks. We will be covering every bit of the festival that we can even if that means we will be insomniacs (or falling asleep during the bad movies….) Don’s Picks: Casting [...]
Review: Dreamhouse
Rather than making this horrible excuse for a film here is a list of things they should have spent their millions on. Feel free to comment below! – Feeding the poor – Helping harry the homeless man with his acholol addiction – Improve the transportation system in Philadelphia Film seals eating each other – Film [...]
FM Fest – The Films – Sept 22nd through 25th
Music lovers of Philadelphia have a huge weekend up ahead where they will be treated to an abnormally large and abnormally awesome Film and Music Festival. What results are the following films and events that no one in their right mind should miss. For all you Dorks interested in these films check out the crazy-not-to-partake-in-deal [...]
Contest: Dream House Ticket Giveaway
Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz together at last in the suspense thriller Dream House. The family (involving Jesus-like-babies if it’s Craig and Weisz reproducing) move into a home where several grisly murders were committed… only to find themselves the killer’s next target…. Dun Dun Dunn….. We at the Dork have FREE SCREENING PASSES! for Thursday, [...]
Contest – “Drive” Screening Passes
Drive is CRAZY! Drive is a mad mad film with big stars (Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks), big action, and big suspense. Lucky for your Philly Dorks there is a preview screening on Wednesday, September 14 at 7:30 PM at the Ritz East that you could be lucky enough to win tickets [...]
Cinedork.com Podcast – August 17th – Baine, Amy Adams, and HELP!
Coming live to you from Brave New Worlds it’s the Cinedork.com Podcast. Our weekly thoughts about film and pop culture in Philadelphia. Who knew people in the back of a comic shop could be so fun to listen to? Did I mention we are nominated for a Geek Award? This week on the show… Baine [...]
