Read the March 28, 2010 Washington Post Magazine kind of late and missed out on two good events in early April: 1) the Raspberry Brothers coming to watch the Karate Kid at Arlington Cinema ‘N’ Drafthouse in Arlington Virginia and 2) The National Cherry Blossom Festival Anime Marathon at Freer Gallery.
And in visiting the Washington Post’s website today to find these links for this blog post, saw that I’ll be missing the 48 Hour Film Project tonight at the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, MD
pg. 12 – The outsiders
pg. 16 – Green Lantern First Flight animated original movie
pg. 17
Detective Comics #854 (Batwoman & Question) & Batman Streets of Gotham #1 (Manhunter)
pg. 20 – The Ghostbusters game
pg. 21 – Arkham Asylum
pg. 23
Flash: Rebirth #1 & Green Lantern #36
pg.78 – Final Crisis HC
Grant Morrison
pg. 80
Trinity Vol. 1 (due June 3rd)
(first collection of the 52 part story-arc that ends.. soon? or last month?)
pg. 84
Batman:Battle for the Cowl and…
…Blackest Night#0 by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis.
pg. 91
Batman #666 (for finding out where Grant Morrison is going with Batman and Robin when it is released in June)]
Last Sunday’s (2/8/2009) Washington Post had a nice list of film festivals coming up. The one’s that have caught our eye:
- March 11 — FilmFest DC, the city’s annual showcase of international film, opens in local theaters and cultural institutions. Through March 22.
- March 12 — The Environmental Film Festival, which this year will pay tribute to the documentaries of Werner Herzog (“Grizzly Man,” “Little Dieter Needs to Fly”), gets underway at venues throughout Washington. Through March 22.
- April 17 — Korean Film Fest D.C. focuses on female directors this year; highlights include “The Chaser,” a thriller about to be remade in the United States, and “Night and Day,” the latest film from auteur Hong Sang-soo. Through June 10.
- June – EuroAsia Shorts marks the fourth annual festival that follows pairings of short films with discussions about issues facing different cultures today. Various venues through June 6.
- June 15 — Silverdocs, the AFI/Discovery Channel documentary festival, returns for its seventh year of spotlighting the world’s most provocative docs. Through June 22.
Check out http://dcshorts.com/ for details. We recently added the DC Shorts Film Festival to our To Participate in page.
I checked this out with my wife Rida on Friday night, and we saw Showcase 5 and the best films on there were:
- Corner Delancey
- En Pos De Dios
- CU@ED’s
- Tough Crowd was good too and worth checking out.
The Washington Post had this article on the DC Shorts Film Festival 2008 on Thursday, September 11, 2008. Going through the article, “The List” seems pretty interesting described by the post as a “brief, brutal little story on interrogation.”
Rob Raffety’s Funniest Fed 2007 Documentary was also featured in this film festival (it was premiered at the DC Independent Film Festival – here’s its page on that site), but unfortunately, it had to be shortened and as a result, the stuff featuring me was removed. 
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Update: 9/15/2008:
- Rob Raffety’s Funniest Fed 2007 won the best local film award at the DC Shorts Film Festival, so congratulations to him
- Rob Raffety was also mentioned in the Washington Post here for his hilarious greeting (all filmmakers in the DC Shorts Film Festival have their own mailboxes which can be used to reach out to them)
- Nice little feature in the Washington Post on Jonn Gann, the founder of the DC Shorts Film Festival, DC Film Alliance, and DC Film Salon
Now I’m not sure if this latest Mummy counts as Mummy 3 or if Scorpion King counts as Mummy 3, so we’ll stick to calling this movie by its title: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. And it’s important I clarify this title so that I can make the following statement with the necessary boldness:
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is the worst movie of 2008.
It is terrible. It was so bad, Raza, my cousin who was with me, fell asleep halfway through. It was so bad that the person behind me laid out over 4 seats and was snoring shortly after the movie started too. It was so bad, I wanted to leave but had too many people with me so I couldn’t. It was so bad I just started twittering about how bad it was (see my exhibits a, b, c).
I’m not going to even bother reviewing this. To talk about what they did wrong in this movie would take too long and to talk about what they did right would require me to think too hard. I myself had a feeling the movie was done for right after the opening
prologue. The opening fly fishing scene with Brendan Frasier was so
unfunny and painful to watch that I knew the movie couldn’t come back
from this.
The prologue actually was the only decent part of this movie. As a matter of fact, in the review from Jane Horowitz’s review in the Washington Post, her closing quote was: “Whatever. The prologue was the best part.”
So I know I’m not the only one.
There’s nothing more to say about the movie. For more good times, check out the comments on Blu-ray.com’s recent blog post on Rob Cohen saying this movie on BD will look and sound better than in the theater.
I thought both of these were worth mentioning:
- Sunday, July 13th, 2008′s Washington Post had a nice article on the Joker by Hank Stuever which can be viewed online here:
The Joker’s Onto Us
What Does It All Mean When Batman’s Enemy Is More Interesting Than the Dark Knight Himself?
The Joker, Through the Years
A look at the many faces of Batman’s nemesis, on film, on television and in the comics.
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2) Also, there’s a nice online discussion with Paul Levitz, the publisher & president of DC comics here.
I think Superman Returns is the most disappointing movie ever made! See the review I did on R1i.com: http://R1i.com/superman-returns-reviewed/
