So. Imagine you’ve reached the climax (heh) of a the novel you’re reading, and the supernatural, demon bad-guy is confronted by the local law enforcement officer, and this cop opens up a can of peanuts in the demon’s face. But stay with me though. Because it’s not even a can of peanuts. It’s one of [...]

You know, driving is one of my all time favorite things to do. I sit in the air conditioned comfy seat, and rock out to my favorite tunes. It’s awesome. But, as much as I love it, sometimes I space out, and lose track of what’s going on. And maybe I drift a little. Nothing [...]

Ok, so we’ve been running this little SLEEPER CELL section of the Mediabreach for going on eight months now, so it’s probably a little late for an introduction. Still, here I am. Hello, my name is Zack, and I love movies. (Everybody, let’s welcome Zack to the group. Group response (smiling, but not too excited): [...]

Volume two of our musical theater sleepers takes us into darker territory. Obviously, Sweeney Todd isn’t really a sleeper since most people at least know the basic story: dude returns from his banishment to Botany Bay (and beyond) to find that his wife has died and his daughter adopted by said dude’s evil nemesis. Dude [...]

Now I know what you’re thinkin. You saw the title “Candide” and thought, “He’s not really going to talk about eighteenth century French literature is he??
Vous misez ton cul I am.
Recorded live from Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, New York. It’s here we start the [...]

As much as we’d sometimes like to believe it, no first time feature length motion picture director just up and makes a movie for the first time ever and churns out work that can be compared to the great movies of all time, such as Reservoir Dogs or The Shawshank Redemption. It just doesn’t happen. [...]

Welcome to the third installment of the movies you missed because they went straight to DVD, but you didn’t know it, and you should be fine with it. This one is a drama. See, the first one Ink was fantasy. Then Jack Brooks was horror. Next week will probably be a comedy. But why plan [...]

Welcome to installment number 2 of the movies you shouldn’t at all feel bad you missed. This week’s straight to DVD feature had a 2.5 million dollar budget and debuted to mixed reviews at the Sitges Film Festival in Barcelona. But, unlike last week’s fare, John Knautz’s Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer at least had a [...]

This review begins the first themed run of reviews in the Sleeper Cell column. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be reviewing a few movies that you should feel no guilt about missing.
Ink writer/director Jamin Winans was unable to get any distribution for his movie (despite winning the award for Best International Feature at the [...]

When deciding on a movie for this week’s Sleeper Cell, I couldn’t choose between David LaChapelle’s gritty urban documentary of South Central hip hop dancers Rize and David Cronenberg’s 1999 whacked out sci-fi thriller eXistenZ. So I’m cheating by going totally off the board and selecting a live recording of a London dramatic performance! In [...]

“The ball is round. The game is 90 minutes. That’s a fact. Everything else is pure theory.”
– Officer Schuster 
For being a movie all about action and music and imagery and running, Tom Tykwer’s 1998 Lola Rennt (auf Englisch, Run Lola Run, and run she does) is all about words. More specifically, the movie is sort [...]

Released in 1986 to the tune of 1.5 million dollars, Solarbabies is sort of the red-headed stepchild of 1980’s sci-fi/fantasy. The movie was directed by Alan Johnson, but it doesn’t really show. What I mean to say is that if I said this movie was directed by Tom Jackson or William Cordroy, you wouldn’t know the difference. [...]

People dog on indie movies, because all indie movies seem to tell goofy stories about quirkier-than-thou characters who end up getting the girl against overwhelming odds, improbably winning an unexpected gunfight or overcoming their debilitating social awkwardness and all this is presented through faux home-spun soundtracks with tinny guitars and totally unnecessary close-ups against a [...]

If you’ve never heard of Neil Gaiman, don’t worry; you’re not a bad person. Just know the man has been wearing black jeans and black t-shirts for the last 50 years or so, and has been telling some of the world’s greatest stories for most of it. And in the interest of full disclosure, I [...]

A Quick Intro:
The Proposition is a perfect movie.
There is a museum in Gaithersburg, Maryland that houses the basis for the scientific System Internationale: The NIST Museum. It holds the universal meter (decided upon in 1875) molded in an x-shaped cross section measured to be exactly the distance of one meridian line between Dunkirk, France and [...]