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MovieChatter: Kick-Ass

By MarBelle ⋅ April 23, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Despite all the time he had to spend listening to my film rants at SXSW, Andrew Johnson, host of the excellent MovieChatter, invited me to join him and Erik Blythe in their discussion of Matthew Vaughn’s superhero flick Kick-Ass and the surrounding controversy. If you enjoyed this then [...]

SXSW2010: Kick-Ass

By MarBelle ⋅ March 14, 2010 ⋅ 7 comments

Take the question, Why hasn’t a normal person, completely lacking in super powers ever tried to become a crime fighting hero? asked by an idle, comic loving teen to his friends; extrapolate from that point and it seems the script for Kick-Ass almost writes itself. The film, which opened SXSW on Friday to much excitement [...]

DN EP 090: Anthropology – Victor Solomon

By MarBelle ⋅ May 31, 2008 ⋅ 9 comments

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Victor Solomon is a director in the rare and enviable position of being able to initiate his own projects through self-funding. He joins us this week to discuss his latest work Anthropology, a collection of five short films based stories from the Dan Rhodes’ book of the same [...]