Despite requisite inclement weather, the 2019 RiverRun International Film Festival once again proved its popularity, as the 21st annual festival racked up 40 sold-out screenings this year – including the first in the festival’s history at RED Cinemas ...
MARK BURGER’S VIDEO VAULT DVD PICK OF THE WEEK THE LITTLE MERMAID (Disney): The resurgence of Disney’s animation division can be directly traced to this animated 1989 musical fantasy that ranked as an instant classic and worthy of inclusion ...
With the 2019 RiverRun International in full swing, one of the most popular films at last year’s festival has coincidentally made its DVD debut via Kino Lorber. Jeremy Workman’s documentary The World Before Your Feet chronicles the six-year odyssey ...
MARK BURGER’S VIDEO VAULT PICK OF THE WEEK THE BODY SNATCHER (Scream Factory/Shout! Factory): Still scary after all these years, this masterful 1945 ...
When Mike Medavoy comes to the RiverRun International Film Festival, he will be the first studio executive and producer to be awarded the Master of Cinema award – “and the first former agent,” he added. Born in Shanghai, Medavoy ...
MARK BURGER’S VIDEO VAULT DVD PICK OF THE WEEK THE ICEMAN COMETH (Kino Classics): John Frankenheimer’s 1973 adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s 1939 play, ...
Much like J.C. Chandor’s impressive 2011 feature debut Margin Call, everything that occurs in writer/director/executive producer Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project (three out of four stars) is wholly plausible and — given the perennially cutthroat corporate climate – highly ...
Nothing is initially as it seems in The Wedding Guest (three out of four stars), the latest film from the versatile writer/producer/director Michael Winterbottom, which stars producer Dev Patel in the title role of Jay, a British Muslim tourist ...
MARK BURGER’S VIDEO VAULT PICK OF THE WEEK 10 TO MIDNIGHT (Scream Factory/Shout! Factory): “Forget what’s legal. Do what’s right.” That’s the ...
Having earned the kudos of both MovieMaker Magazine (“Top 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee”) and USA Today (“One of 10 Amazing Film Festivals Worth Traveling For”), the 21st annual RiverRun International Film Festival is once ...
