The Art of Remaking
It seems like there isn’t an original idea left in the universe. From last year’s Footloose to the rumored new American Psycho project to the Spiderman franchise reboot, it seems like recycling films is now more popular than ever. While most people loathe the idea of their favorite film becoming Zac Efron’s new project, it [...]
TCM’s Road to Hollywood Tour Brings ‘North By Northwest’ to Philly
In preparation for the 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival, Turner Classic Movies took the show on the road to ten cities across the country and brought some classic films and their stars with them for special Q&A sessions. When they rolled through Philadelphia on March 15th, they unleashed one of Alfred Hitchcock’s signature movies on [...]
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: My Week With Marilyn
To quote a phrase: if you look up “sex symbol” in the dictionary, a photo of Marilyn Monroe would stand alone. (And Probably take up the whole page) Her myth endures despite the nearly 50 years since her death of an overdose of sleeping pills. Part indomitable goddess, part vulnerable child-woman, nifty actress, insoluble enigma. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“The Might Macs” – Helping Coaches vs. Cancer
Tomorrow night is a special night for basketball fans in Philly. Tickets are still available to go see the premiere of “The Mighty Macs” at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. Proceeds to benefit Immaculata University and Coaches vs. Cancer. So who cares about the horrible Photoshop job on the poster? Go help support the 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, [...]
Family Guy Premiere Party Ticket Giveaway!
Philadelphia Family Guy fans Unite! The new season of Family Guy premieres on FOX September 25th, 2011 but you don’t need to wait that long. You can see the premiere episode and get a ton of free stuff at the Family Guy Premiere Party! Who has tickets to this amazing event you ask? Well the [...]
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 [...]
Philadelphia Fright Night Truck – August 12th – Feeding Frenzy
Do you want some free food? Do you live/work in Philly? Do you have a thirst for blood and a hatred for Garlic? Well tomorrow is your LUCKY DAY! The online feeding frenzy comes to life when the “Fright Night” food truck serves free vampire-inspired treats at various stops. Sample “Bloody Jerry’s,” “Steak Stakes,” “Garlic [...]
24 HOUR HORROR-THON PART V – Tickets on Sale now
Do you love horror films? Can you stay awake for 24 hours watching them!? How many prothsthetic limbs being hacked off can you take?! Grab your tickets for Exhumed Films’ 24 Hour Horror-thon (Part V) and see if you can stomach the MADNESS! Muhahaha. When: SATURDAY, OCT. 29TH TO SUNDAY, OCT. 30th 2011 : 24 [...]
Say Hello to “Scarface” in Theaters Again – August 31st
In honor of the release of Scarface on Blu-Ray and super-expensive-ultra-rich-ahole-dbag-will-be-on-cribbs-way-too-much $1000 Blu Ray, Fathom Events is playing the new transfer of Scarface in theaters for one night only. If you think that these tickets will be $1000 then you are wrong! They are normal people priced. Go see this film at AMC Hamilton 24, [...]
Attack the Block – Philadelphia Facebook Campaign
VOTE FOR “attack the block” TO INVADE PHILADELPHIA ON AUGUST 19TH! If you have been following Attack the Block you know that the world is becoming obsessed with this Aliens meets the Goonies R-rated romp. The thing that is sad about it, is that Philadelphia is being left out of the fun. So go to [...]
The Devils Double – The Golden Girls of Philadelphia
Last night in the city of Brotherly “love” there was a lot of “loving” going on. At Cheerleaders, a gentleman’s playground in south philly, a golden girl was crowned for the movie The Devils Double. The party began through WMMR and ended at the club where they held a “Sexy Little Devil’s Doubles” contest where [...]
QFest 2011 – July 7th – 18th
QFest 2011 begins this week with “Time-travelling gays and space-travelling lesbians make the perfect pair to ensure your night is filled with romance and fancy!” (I am not kidding around). QFest has always been known to bring in a wide variety of films that so brilliantly define what QFest represents, “the international independent queer filmmaking [...]
Free Screening: The Art of Getting By
How would you like to see the upcoming film The Art of Getting By before it gets released in theaters? Check out below the jump for details.
Cinedork.com Podcast – June 1st – Hangover 2 Vs. Kung Fu Panda 2
This Week on the show we talk about…. Hangover 2 Vs. Kung Fu Panda 2 X-men and Kick Ass 2 We Really Love Super Spy Kids 4…. Follow Us on Twitter @Trums11 – Steve @DantheFan – Dan @Bondimus – Mike Visit our Recording Spot – Brave New Worlds 45 N. 2nd St. Philadelphia, PA – [...]
Bands to See this Weekend in Philly – 5/22 – Charlene Kaye
Charlene Kaye is a name that all Gleeks are somewhat familiar with and whether or not you are a Glee lover or hater you should definitely go out to see Charlene Kaye play the roof off The Fire in Philadelphia this weekend! Her gorgeous voice glimmers back into old soul and jazz of the 1950s. [...]
