In 2002, Robin Williams and Al Pacino shared screen space in Christopher Nolan’s psychological thriller Insomnia. Compared to Nolan’s famed works, this film remained a very underrated one, but became a cult classic over the years. More significantly, it saw Williams in a completely different avatar as a scheming killer, which was a far cry from his comedic turns.
Hollywood star Robin Williams (image credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The casting of the two Oscar winners who were diametrically different in their styles and methods may have seemed like a risky proposition when it came to their working relationship on set. But the Mrs Doubtfire star tapped into his trademark witty humor to break the ice with Pacino in hilarious fashion.
How Robin Williams Created Perfect Chemistry With Al Pacino
Christopher Nolan’s Insomnia saw two A-list stars Al Pacino and Robin Williams locking horns on screen in a psychological cat-and-mouse...
Hollywood star Robin Williams (image credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The casting of the two Oscar winners who were diametrically different in their styles and methods may have seemed like a risky proposition when it came to their working relationship on set. But the Mrs Doubtfire star tapped into his trademark witty humor to break the ice with Pacino in hilarious fashion.
How Robin Williams Created Perfect Chemistry With Al Pacino
Christopher Nolan’s Insomnia saw two A-list stars Al Pacino and Robin Williams locking horns on screen in a psychological cat-and-mouse...
- 4/20/2024
- by Sharanya Sankar
- FandomWire
Jeff Ryan, Scott Cohen, Katerina Tannenbaum, Geneva Carr and Will Chase will star in “Mooch.” The crime comedy was also written and directed by Ryan, whose credits include “Mean Spirited” and “YouthMin.”
The filmmakers received an interim agreement to work on this independent production during last year’s SAG-Afrtra strike. It recently wrapped production in Lexington, Mass.
The movie focuses on a 30-year-old caddy named Shane (Ryan), who winds up with an unexpected gig as a personal private eye for a New Jersey nightclub owner. Even though he inches closer to realizing his ambitions, his personal life spirals out of control.
“When I was in high school, my friend’s dad told me I was going to fail in life because I was a ‘Mooch,’” said Ryan. “Making this film was a dream come true, and I am proud to put my dirty laundry on screen for all to enjoy.
The filmmakers received an interim agreement to work on this independent production during last year’s SAG-Afrtra strike. It recently wrapped production in Lexington, Mass.
The movie focuses on a 30-year-old caddy named Shane (Ryan), who winds up with an unexpected gig as a personal private eye for a New Jersey nightclub owner. Even though he inches closer to realizing his ambitions, his personal life spirals out of control.
“When I was in high school, my friend’s dad told me I was going to fail in life because I was a ‘Mooch,’” said Ryan. “Making this film was a dream come true, and I am proud to put my dirty laundry on screen for all to enjoy.
- 1/30/2024
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Arizona-based Jackrabbit Studios, the production arm of Jackrabbit Media, has wrapped on its latest action western film Ghosts Of Red Ridge and will show EFM buyers first footage in Berlin next month.
Stefan Colson makes his feature directorial debut based on a screenplay by Brandon Cahela about a sheriff and his deputy who dealing with a band of outlaws in the dying town of Red Ridge.
To complicate matters the sheriff is haunted by visions while managing a mysterious stranger locked up in his dilapidated jail. Production took place in Benson, Arizona.
The ensemble cast features Owen Williams (We Are Boats...
Stefan Colson makes his feature directorial debut based on a screenplay by Brandon Cahela about a sheriff and his deputy who dealing with a band of outlaws in the dying town of Red Ridge.
To complicate matters the sheriff is haunted by visions while managing a mysterious stranger locked up in his dilapidated jail. Production took place in Benson, Arizona.
The ensemble cast features Owen Williams (We Are Boats...
- 1/24/2024
- ScreenDaily
Dark Sky Films is set to give director Travis Greene’s rental property thriller 8 Found Dead a theatrical and VOD release on September 8th, and with that date just one month away we’ve gotten our hands on a trailer for the film. Check it out in the embed above!
Scripted by Jonathan Buchanan, 8 Found Dead tells the following story: Two couples head to a secluded desert hideaway for a weekend of relaxation and, unbeknownst to their friends, uneasy revelations. When they arrive, each couple is met by the same eccentric couple, claiming to have booked the rental on the same day at the same time. As two local police officers are drawn into the evening’s strange and unpredictable events, depravity and derangement begin to consume everyone at the house. What begins as miscommunication soon descends in mayhem and bloody murder.
The film stars Aly Trasher (What’s My Name Again?...
Scripted by Jonathan Buchanan, 8 Found Dead tells the following story: Two couples head to a secluded desert hideaway for a weekend of relaxation and, unbeknownst to their friends, uneasy revelations. When they arrive, each couple is met by the same eccentric couple, claiming to have booked the rental on the same day at the same time. As two local police officers are drawn into the evening’s strange and unpredictable events, depravity and derangement begin to consume everyone at the house. What begins as miscommunication soon descends in mayhem and bloody murder.
The film stars Aly Trasher (What’s My Name Again?...
- 8/10/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
In 2010, David Fincher set the template for modern tech biopic with “The Social Network,” delivering a rapid-fire seriocomic portrait of young entrepreneurship at the dawn of the 21st century. It cost $40 million. Last year, filmmaker Matt Johnson made “BlackBerry,” a biopic about the rise and fall of the eccentric characters behind the outdated mobile phone. It cost $5 million.
“The amount of money that gets spent on making a movie is completely mind-boggling to me,” Johnson told IndieWire over Zoom. “We were pretty clear from the beginning we would make something on the scale we prefer.”
That ethos was established 10 years ago, when the Canadian director made the buzzy found footage movie “The Dirties,” in which Johnson starred as an aspiring filmmaker who morphs into a high school shooter. The $10,000 movie manages a tricky balance between satirizing its character’s cinematic aspirations and the looming alienation that drives him to a horrific extreme.
“The amount of money that gets spent on making a movie is completely mind-boggling to me,” Johnson told IndieWire over Zoom. “We were pretty clear from the beginning we would make something on the scale we prefer.”
That ethos was established 10 years ago, when the Canadian director made the buzzy found footage movie “The Dirties,” in which Johnson starred as an aspiring filmmaker who morphs into a high school shooter. The $10,000 movie manages a tricky balance between satirizing its character’s cinematic aspirations and the looming alienation that drives him to a horrific extreme.
- 5/10/2023
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Mark Harrison May 19, 2017
From the currently playing Their Finest to the likes of Bowfinger and Boogie Nights, we salute the movies about making movies...
If you haven't caught up yet, Their Finest is currently playing in UK cinemas and it's a gorgeous little love letter to perseverance through storytelling, set against the backdrop of a film production office at the British Ministry of Information during the Second World War. Based on Lissa Evans' novel, Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy play characters whose access to the film industry has been contingent on the global crisis that takes other young men away from such trifling matters, and it's a real joy to watch.
Among other things, the film got us thinking about other films about making films. We're not talking about documentaries, even though Hearts Of Darkness, the documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now, may be the greatest film about...
From the currently playing Their Finest to the likes of Bowfinger and Boogie Nights, we salute the movies about making movies...
If you haven't caught up yet, Their Finest is currently playing in UK cinemas and it's a gorgeous little love letter to perseverance through storytelling, set against the backdrop of a film production office at the British Ministry of Information during the Second World War. Based on Lissa Evans' novel, Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy play characters whose access to the film industry has been contingent on the global crisis that takes other young men away from such trifling matters, and it's a real joy to watch.
Among other things, the film got us thinking about other films about making films. We're not talking about documentaries, even though Hearts Of Darkness, the documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now, may be the greatest film about...
- 5/3/2017
- Den of Geek
Stars: Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Krista Madison, Tom Bolton, Sharon Belle, Josh Boles, Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Joe Thomas | Written by Matt Johnson, Josh Boles | Directed by Matt Johnson
1967: the height of the Cold War. The CIA suspects there is a Russian mole inside of Nasa, sabotaging the Apollo program. They send two young agents on a mission to go undercover, posing as documentary filmmakers, there to capture Nasa’s race to the moon. The real mission – use their access and technology to hunt down the leak. But what they discover is far more shocking than soviet spies… Their government may be hiding a secret about Apollo that could define the decade, and the White House will stop at nothing to silence anyone who learns it.
Comspiracy theories. There’s a million of them. The biggest? That man never landed on the moon in 1969 and instead the whole Apollo 11 mission was an elaborate hoax.
1967: the height of the Cold War. The CIA suspects there is a Russian mole inside of Nasa, sabotaging the Apollo program. They send two young agents on a mission to go undercover, posing as documentary filmmakers, there to capture Nasa’s race to the moon. The real mission – use their access and technology to hunt down the leak. But what they discover is far more shocking than soviet spies… Their government may be hiding a secret about Apollo that could define the decade, and the White House will stop at nothing to silence anyone who learns it.
Comspiracy theories. There’s a million of them. The biggest? That man never landed on the moon in 1969 and instead the whole Apollo 11 mission was an elaborate hoax.
- 3/22/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
MaryAnn’s quick take… This Apollo-era would-be suspense-thriller mockumentary is more an exercise in “look how film-school cool and clever we are” than anything else. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m a big ol’ science and Sf geek
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Two young CIA agents go undercover at Nasa in 1967 in order to root out a suspected Russian mole, and instead end up embroiled in a conspiracy of their own making. That sounds pretty cool — I’m always a sucker for space stuff and paranoia — but this would-be suspense-thriller mockumentary is more an exercise in “look how film-school cool and clever we are” than anything else. Director and cowriter (with Josh Boles) Matt Johnson casts himself as “director” of a faux documentary about the Apollo program as cover for the spy mission — Owen Williams plays his partner...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Two young CIA agents go undercover at Nasa in 1967 in order to root out a suspected Russian mole, and instead end up embroiled in a conspiracy of their own making. That sounds pretty cool — I’m always a sucker for space stuff and paranoia — but this would-be suspense-thriller mockumentary is more an exercise in “look how film-school cool and clever we are” than anything else. Director and cowriter (with Josh Boles) Matt Johnson casts himself as “director” of a faux documentary about the Apollo program as cover for the spy mission — Owen Williams plays his partner...
- 1/5/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Buckle up for a Cold War conspiracy when Operation Avalanche launches on DVD, Digital HD and On Demand January 3 from Lionsgate. Filmmaker and actor Matt Johnson stars alongside Owen Williams and Josh Boles as undercover CIA agents on a mission at Nasa in what Variety is calling “a wild rewrite of space-age history.” A film festival favorite,Operation Avalanche was an official selection at the SXSW Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Hot Docs, and Mammoth Film Festival. The Operation Avalanche DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $19.98.
Official Synopsis
In 1967 two CIA agents go undercover at Nasa to investigate a possible Russian mole. In disguise as documentary filmmakers, they tap phones and break into offices while purporting to learn more about the Apollo project. But when they end up uncovering a shocking Nasa secret — and a major government cover-up — they decide to embark on a new mission...
Official Synopsis
In 1967 two CIA agents go undercover at Nasa to investigate a possible Russian mole. In disguise as documentary filmmakers, they tap phones and break into offices while purporting to learn more about the Apollo project. But when they end up uncovering a shocking Nasa secret — and a major government cover-up — they decide to embark on a new mission...
- 12/21/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
What if the moon landing was faked? What if it was an elaborate hoax constructed to maintain a sense of nationalist pride and to show that America has the upper hand in the world and beyond? This is a theory that has been around longer than I have been alive. Books and films have tried to unearth clues to support this claim. And even though most have accepted that the 1969 moon landing was indeed real, there’s still the tiniest hint of a voice inside some of us that asks, “What if?”
Matt Johnson reignites this fervor with his newest faux documentary. After the controversial but film festival-favorite The Dirties showcased the actor and director roaming the halls of a real high school with his partner Owen Williams, Matt Johnson decided to use his unique storytelling style to venture to a new, distant place and era. Operation Avalanche follows a...
Matt Johnson reignites this fervor with his newest faux documentary. After the controversial but film festival-favorite The Dirties showcased the actor and director roaming the halls of a real high school with his partner Owen Williams, Matt Johnson decided to use his unique storytelling style to venture to a new, distant place and era. Operation Avalanche follows a...
- 10/7/2016
- by Michael Haffner
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Matt Johnson’s films could almost be described as half-truths or honest lies. They purposefully blur the line between fiction and non-fiction in such a fascinating way that you are never quite sure where the lie begins or ends. So it makes sense that my discussion with the young actor and director would include discussing the classic Orson Welles film F For Fake and why he enjoys injecting truths into stories… or maybe it’s the other way around.
After the controversial but film festival favorite The Dirties showcased the director roaming the halls of a real high school with his partner Owen Williams, Matt Johnson decided to use his unique storytelling style to venture to a new distant place and era. Operation Avalanche follows a group of CIA paper pushers as they attempt to orchestrate possibly the greatest hoax in human history: the 1969 moon landing. The group’s mission...
After the controversial but film festival favorite The Dirties showcased the director roaming the halls of a real high school with his partner Owen Williams, Matt Johnson decided to use his unique storytelling style to venture to a new distant place and era. Operation Avalanche follows a group of CIA paper pushers as they attempt to orchestrate possibly the greatest hoax in human history: the 1969 moon landing. The group’s mission...
- 10/4/2016
- by Michael Haffner
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
One of the biggest conversation starters from this year’s Sundance Festival was Matt Johnson’s Operation Avalanche, a fake documentary that recounts four men’s attempts to stage the 1969 Moon landing. Playing on one of the biggest conspiracy theories of the past century, the film is as enamored with the possibility of toying with history as it is with the rigorous aestheticism needed to convincingly depict the time period of the 60s.
Employing the same narrative format as Johnson’s previous film, The Dirties, Johnson and his team, including writer and creative partner, Owen Williams, cast themselves in this reproduction of alternate history. The result is a fascinating comedy-thriller, that also serves as a meticulous love letter to both the technology of the time period and cinema’s ability to obscure our perception of time and space.
In time for its expanded limited release, we had an expansive conversation...
Employing the same narrative format as Johnson’s previous film, The Dirties, Johnson and his team, including writer and creative partner, Owen Williams, cast themselves in this reproduction of alternate history. The result is a fascinating comedy-thriller, that also serves as a meticulous love letter to both the technology of the time period and cinema’s ability to obscure our perception of time and space.
In time for its expanded limited release, we had an expansive conversation...
- 9/22/2016
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
This Past Weekend:
Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood’s real-life drama about airline pilot Sully (Warner Bros.) far surpassed all expectations, making nearly $10 million more than my prediction with an opening weekend of $35 million in 3,525 theaters, also making it one of the biggest openings for a movie opening the weekend after Labor Day. The Screen Gems thriller When the Bough Breaks disappointed compared to some of their similar releases, taking second place with around where we predicted with around $14 million. The lower profile animated film The Wild Life (Summit/Lionsgate) did end up in fifth place behind Don’t Breathe and Suicide Squad, but with a measly $3.3 million in 2,493 theaters. As expected, Relativity’s theatrical return with its own horror/thriller The Disappointments Room...
This Past Weekend:
Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood’s real-life drama about airline pilot Sully (Warner Bros.) far surpassed all expectations, making nearly $10 million more than my prediction with an opening weekend of $35 million in 3,525 theaters, also making it one of the biggest openings for a movie opening the weekend after Labor Day. The Screen Gems thriller When the Bough Breaks disappointed compared to some of their similar releases, taking second place with around where we predicted with around $14 million. The lower profile animated film The Wild Life (Summit/Lionsgate) did end up in fifth place behind Don’t Breathe and Suicide Squad, but with a measly $3.3 million in 2,493 theaters. As expected, Relativity’s theatrical return with its own horror/thriller The Disappointments Room...
- 9/14/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Set in 1967 at the height of the Cold War, “Operation Avalanche” follows two members of the CIA’s A/V team, Matt (Matt Johnson) and Owen (Owen Williams), who are investigating director Stanley Kubrick and his film “Dr. Strangelove” when they discover their employers are sending an agent into Nasa to hunt down a Soviet mole. Matt and Owen volunteer for the job saying that they’ll pose as documentary filmmakers making a movie about Nasa to suss out the mole. But when they arrive, they find out that Nasa is much farther away from landing on the moon than promised and are worried that they won’t be able to make President Kennedy’s deadline of decade’s end. So Matt and Owen concoct a crazy plan that just might work: They’ll fake the landing. Watch the trailer for the alt-history mockumentary below.
Read More: Sundance Review: ‘Dr. Strangelove...
Read More: Sundance Review: ‘Dr. Strangelove...
- 7/21/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
"We're going to use his space movie to make sure the real space movie looks like space. Do you understand how crazy that is?!" Lionsgate has released a trailer for an indie called Operation Avalanche, billed as a documentary (even though it's a fictional found footage feature) about the people who faked the moon landing. This trailer is perfectly timed as today (July 21st) is the 47th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon. This film first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and it's a fun conspiracy theory thriller with some impressive low budget work. The filmmaking is outstanding and I can't wait to see where director Matt Johnson goes in his career. It stars Johnson Owen Williams as two CIA agents who end up in a conspiracy theory faking the moon landing since Nasa can't pull it off. You just have to see this for yourself. Here's...
- 7/21/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
After pulling off a documentary-style found-footage drama with their overlooked The Dirties, Matt Johnson and Josh Boles are back with Operation Avalanche. Set in the late ’60s, the Sundance drama finds four young C.I.A. agents convincing their superiors to send them undercover at Nasa, posing as a documentary film crew. It’s been set for a fall release, thanks to Lionsgate, and the first trailer has now arrived.
We said in our review, “Perhaps the most famous of all American conspiracy theories, Johnson and Boles’ docu-style rendering of the non-event feels confident and quick. These filmmakers have a knack for pacing, readily cutting out any fat from a given scene to keep the proceedings raw and gripping.”
Check out the trailer (via i09) and poster below for the film starring Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Josh Boles, and Ray James.
In 1967, during the height of the Cold War, two...
We said in our review, “Perhaps the most famous of all American conspiracy theories, Johnson and Boles’ docu-style rendering of the non-event feels confident and quick. These filmmakers have a knack for pacing, readily cutting out any fat from a given scene to keep the proceedings raw and gripping.”
Check out the trailer (via i09) and poster below for the film starring Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Josh Boles, and Ray James.
In 1967, during the height of the Cold War, two...
- 7/20/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Matt Johnson wrote, directed and stars in Operation Avalanche, the faux documentary about the faking of the 1969 moon landing that premiered at SXSW this year. Matt Johnson On ‘Operation Avalanche’ Operation Avalanche follows Johnson and Owen Williams playing fictitious versions of themselves – 1960s Ivy League-educated film buffs who get recruited by the CIA […]
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- 3/31/2016
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
Simply put, the SXSW Film, Music and Interactive Festival is one of the biggest, most prestigious events in the media calendar. Taking place annually in Austin, Texas, it is beloved by film fans and filmmakers from all over the world, and has reached such heights by building a reputation for showcasing excellent content. This results in a high level of competition, with the Narrative Feature category alone having received 1442 submissions this year, and the documentary feature category having received 1,013.
The 2016 event looks to be particularly exciting, with many world premieres and feature debuts already announced. The Narrative Feature category will include Julia Hart’s Miss Stevens, Debra Eisenstadt’s Before The Sun Explodes, Joey Klein’s The Other Half, and Musa Syeed’s A Stray, among others, while the Headliner category will feature Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some.
The Narrative Spotlight category includes 9 Rides by Matthew A. Cherry; The Waiting...
The 2016 event looks to be particularly exciting, with many world premieres and feature debuts already announced. The Narrative Feature category will include Julia Hart’s Miss Stevens, Debra Eisenstadt’s Before The Sun Explodes, Joey Klein’s The Other Half, and Musa Syeed’s A Stray, among others, while the Headliner category will feature Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some.
The Narrative Spotlight category includes 9 Rides by Matthew A. Cherry; The Waiting...
- 2/10/2016
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
In 2013, Matt Johnson's The Dirties won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at Slamdance. Now Johnson's at Sundance, his Operation Avalanche premiering in the Next program. And it's "essentially The Dirties 2.0," writes Ben Umstead at Twitch. "Again, Matt Johnson plays Matt Johnson. Owen Williams plays Owen Williams. Again, this is a faux-documentary. But this time, they aren't high school nerds in the 2000s, they're the best and brightest from top Ivy league schools, recruited by the C.I.A. in 1967." It gets complicated. We're collecting reviews as they come in. » - David Hudson...
- 1/25/2016
- Keyframe
In 2013, Matt Johnson's The Dirties won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at Slamdance. Now Johnson's at Sundance, his Operation Avalanche premiering in the Next program. And it's "essentially The Dirties 2.0," writes Ben Umstead at Twitch. "Again, Matt Johnson plays Matt Johnson. Owen Williams plays Owen Williams. Again, this is a faux-documentary. But this time, they aren't high school nerds in the 2000s, they're the best and brightest from top Ivy league schools, recruited by the C.I.A. in 1967." It gets complicated. We're collecting reviews as they come in. » - David Hudson...
- 1/25/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Operation Avalanche (2016) Film Review from the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, a movie directed by Matt Johnson, starring Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Josh Boles, and Ray James. To say that Operation Avalanche was underwhelming is, at best, an understatement. The obnoxious intro of the film by director/star Matt Johnson and star Owen Williams should’ve been taken as a clear sign. Set in […]...
- 1/24/2016
- by Drew Stelter
- Film-Book
The Sundance Film institute has released the line-up of film for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Going to Sundance is one of my favorite events of the year. I love going because you never know what kind of movies you're going to see. Sometimes they are great films that amaze and entertain, other times they completely suck ass, but that's all part of the fun of going to the festival. It's an awesome experience for any hardcore movie geek, and if you ever get a chance to go, you need to.
The event takes place in Park City, Utah next year from January 21st to the 31st. It looks like there's a great line-up of movies at next year's event. My favorite portion of the event is the Midnight section because it deals more with geeky genre type movies, but I also enjoy the various sections of other line-ups.
Some of...
The event takes place in Park City, Utah next year from January 21st to the 31st. It looks like there's a great line-up of movies at next year's event. My favorite portion of the event is the Midnight section because it deals more with geeky genre type movies, but I also enjoy the various sections of other line-ups.
Some of...
- 12/6/2015
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
We might look back to 2015’s 10 film line-up as a true vintage year for the Next section. With the likes of Rick Alverson’s Entertainment, Sebastián Silva’s Nasty Baby, Matt Sobel’s Take Me to the River, Sean Baker’s Tangerine and section winner Josh Mond’s James White, we’d be hard pressed to say that this year’s 10 selected film selection is a better crop, but so far with names such as Tim Sutton and his super secretive third film (Dark Night – see pic above), video helmer we adore in Nicolas Pesce’s debut (The Eyes of My Mother), short film Yearbook fest winner Bernardo Britto’s first (Jacqueline Argentine), big Slamdance home run hitter with The Dirties’ Matt Johnson (Operation Avalanche) and the Venice to Park City bound The Fits from Anna Rose Holmer are all films we eagerly await. Here is the 10 section of what the fest calls “pure,...
- 12/2/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Titles include Tallulah starring Ellen Page and Allison Janney, and Chad Hartigan’s Morris From America (pictured); Next strand also announced.Scroll down for full list
Sundance Institute has announced the 65 films selected for the Us Competition, World Competition and out-of-competition Next categories set to screen at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival (Jan 21-31) in Park City.
Us Dramatic Competition selections include Sian Heder’s Tallulah with Ellen Page and Allison Janney; Antonio Campos’ Christine; Clea DuVall’s feature directorial debut The Intervention; and Richard Tanne’s Southside With You, about Barack Obama’s first date with the First Lady.
Among the Us Documentary Competition selections are: Holy Hell by undisclosed; Jeff Feuerzeig’s Author: The Jt LeRoy Story; and Sara Jordenö’s Kiki.
The World Cinema Dramatic Competition entries include: Belgica (Belgium-France-Netherlands), Felix van Groeningen’s follow-up to The Broken Circle Breakdown; Manolo Cruz and Carlos del Castillo’s Between Sea And Land (Colombia); and Nicolette Krebitz’s Wild...
Sundance Institute has announced the 65 films selected for the Us Competition, World Competition and out-of-competition Next categories set to screen at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival (Jan 21-31) in Park City.
Us Dramatic Competition selections include Sian Heder’s Tallulah with Ellen Page and Allison Janney; Antonio Campos’ Christine; Clea DuVall’s feature directorial debut The Intervention; and Richard Tanne’s Southside With You, about Barack Obama’s first date with the First Lady.
Among the Us Documentary Competition selections are: Holy Hell by undisclosed; Jeff Feuerzeig’s Author: The Jt LeRoy Story; and Sara Jordenö’s Kiki.
The World Cinema Dramatic Competition entries include: Belgica (Belgium-France-Netherlands), Felix van Groeningen’s follow-up to The Broken Circle Breakdown; Manolo Cruz and Carlos del Castillo’s Between Sea And Land (Colombia); and Nicolette Krebitz’s Wild...
- 12/2/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Dirties is the film-within-a- film made by two best friends as a revenge fantasy against the jocks who bully them at their high school. Eventually events escalate from harmless fantasy into terrifying reality. Unfortunately, despite an admirable desire to approach a hot button issue with some degree of insight, first time director Matt Johnson handles the whole enterprise with the heavy handedness of an after school special and does not quite connect the dots between his themes and what he presents on screen with very much clarity.
Matt (Matt Johnson) and Owen (Owen Williams) are high school BFFs and unapologetic film nerds. So much so that they have decided to enlist the aid of a third, unidentified friend (cinematographer Jarad Raab) to film them every minute of the day as they make a movie called The Dirties, which is the collective noun they give the bullies at their school.
Matt (Matt Johnson) and Owen (Owen Williams) are high school BFFs and unapologetic film nerds. So much so that they have decided to enlist the aid of a third, unidentified friend (cinematographer Jarad Raab) to film them every minute of the day as they make a movie called The Dirties, which is the collective noun they give the bullies at their school.
- 6/6/2014
- by Liam Dunn
- We Got This Covered
Canadian filmmaker Matt Johnson caused quite a stir last year with The Dirties, his feature-length debut, in which he starred with Owen Williams in a thriller that tackled the subject of high school shootings with daring and intelligence. His follow-up, Operation Avalanche, "investigates the truth behind the CIA's involvement in the space race" and promises to be just as invigorating as his debut. According to a press release, Lionsgate has snapped up all U.S. and Canadian rights to the film. Production is scheduled to begin on June 30 in Toronto, Houston, and Washington D.C. From the official statement: "The CIA, the 1960's and the space program have always been obsessions of mine. Working with partners like Lionsgate, who understand the scope and vision of what we are creating,...
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- 5/28/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Xyz Films and Lionsgate Films have announced today that Lionsgate has acquired all U.S. and Canadian rights to the new thriller Operation Avalanche from filmmaker Matt Johnson. Johnson.s first film, The Dirties (which he directed, co-wrote, and co-starred in), won the Grand Prize at Slamdance in 2013. Johnson is reteaming with The Dirties co-writer Josh Boles, co-star Owen Williams, producer Matthew Miller, and has brought on Toronto-based producer Lee Kim. Nick Spicer will executive produce for Xyz Films, with Michael Paseornek, John Sacchi, and Jessica Switch overseeing for Lionsgate.
- 5/28/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Review Owen Williams 6 Feb 2014 - 06:20
Lovecraft, government experiments and Hunter S. Thompson collide in this lo-fi low-budget horror movie
Over the last couple of decades, much of the information pertaining to the Us Government’s infamous MKUltra human research experiments has been declassified. In many ways the truth is stranger than fiction: Us and Canadian citizens were used as guinea-pigs in human behavioral tests often involving mind-altering psychotropic drugs that had lasting and damaging effects on the people they were administered to. The officially sanctioned programs began in the 1950s and were only ultimately curtailed in 1973, and while Freedom of Information requests have helped illuminate the formerly shadowy undertaking, much remains secret, and conspiracy theorists continue to link the dubious and sinister tests to events from the Jonestown mass suicide to the JFK assassination.
It’s amazing there aren’t more films riffing on the subject: something that clearly...
Lovecraft, government experiments and Hunter S. Thompson collide in this lo-fi low-budget horror movie
Over the last couple of decades, much of the information pertaining to the Us Government’s infamous MKUltra human research experiments has been declassified. In many ways the truth is stranger than fiction: Us and Canadian citizens were used as guinea-pigs in human behavioral tests often involving mind-altering psychotropic drugs that had lasting and damaging effects on the people they were administered to. The officially sanctioned programs began in the 1950s and were only ultimately curtailed in 1973, and while Freedom of Information requests have helped illuminate the formerly shadowy undertaking, much remains secret, and conspiracy theorists continue to link the dubious and sinister tests to events from the Jonestown mass suicide to the JFK assassination.
It’s amazing there aren’t more films riffing on the subject: something that clearly...
- 2/5/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
Matt Johnson is the director, co-writer, co-editor and co-producer of The Dirties. That's a fair number of hats, to be sure, but in the world of micro-budget filmmaking this is more often than not the norm. What makes these roles even more interesting in Johnson's case is that he also stars in The Dirties as... Matt Johnson, a high schooler obsessed with movies. The Dirties is shot as a faux-documentary, chronicling Matt, and his friend Owen's (played by real life buddy Owen Williams) attempt at making a pastiche heavy revenge movie where they kill the gang of bullies at their school which they've dubbed 'The Dirties'. What begins as an outlet to vent their own frustrations and abuse soon takes a dark turn when Matt...
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- 10/15/2013
- Screen Anarchy
The tale of two friends planning a student movie project about taking revenge on bullying tormentors, Matt Johnson’s The Dirties is as provocative as it is sloppily messy in its themes. Using a found-footage, mockumentary format, the film treads overly familiar territory -- yes, it culminates in a Columbine/Newtown-style school shooting, but it also contains enough examples of anarchically dark humor to make it memorable. Best friends Matt (director Johnson) and Owen (Owen Williams) are routinely brutally harassed by the school jocks, so it’s not surprising that they would take out their frustrations by conceiving a film informed by
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- 10/6/2013
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Masterfully taking on media-making headline subject matters of bullying and school shootings with the rarely witnessed buddy comedy swagger, Canadian writer/director/star Matt Johnson approaches sensitive material in his feature debut with panache. Tackling the hallway issues at hand with gusto and comedic grit, The Dirties takes a vivid look at the evolution and eventual erosion of a friendship, all amidst the backdrop of high-school bullying and its potential repercussions.
Matt (Johnson) and Owen (Owen Williams) are best friends and unapologetic film geeks who also happen to be the targets of a group of bullies at their high school. Opening with a hilarious bit of exposition as Matt is explaining to a couple of younger kids that he and Owen are making an action movie for film class about two high school detectives taking down the bully situation amidst their locker dwellings. They call their opus “The Dirties”, which...
Matt (Johnson) and Owen (Owen Williams) are best friends and unapologetic film geeks who also happen to be the targets of a group of bullies at their high school. Opening with a hilarious bit of exposition as Matt is explaining to a couple of younger kids that he and Owen are making an action movie for film class about two high school detectives taking down the bully situation amidst their locker dwellings. They call their opus “The Dirties”, which...
- 10/4/2013
- by Jason Widgington
- IONCINEMA.com
High school shootings are such a morbid topic that it's no surprise movies about them follow suit. Gus Van Sant's "Elephant" might be the high water mark for artistic meditations on the conditions that lead to teen massacres, but Matt Johnson's "The Dirties" exists outside of those expectations. It's a shooter story that creeps up on you with humor and personality, featuring characters so likable the thought that they could transform into killers is at first unthinkable -- which is precisely the point. Directed by Toronto Film School student Matt Johnson, "The Dirties" is a strange documentary-fiction hybrid that's practically Godardian in its narrative trickiness: Johnson stars as a fictionalized teenage version of himself, a socially ostracized film geek eagerly concocting a movie project with his sole pal Owen (Owen Williams) about the duo taking revenge against the mean-spirited high school gang of the title. Partly constructed in found footage terms,...
- 10/4/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The found footage conceit, like 3D, has been mostly used as a gimmick to enhance the realism of a particular genre (mostly genre fare like horror flicks or teen comedies). The spookiness of, say, a haunted house, is amplified by the gritty, handheld textures that the format provides, offering an effective, low budget alternative to the kind of glossy Hollywood aesthetic. With "The Dirties," a new film that essentially attempts to be the "Scream" of school shooting movies, its filmmakers have tried to use the genre to get inside the head of a pair of budding psychopaths and comment on the way culture corrupts you. Or something. As the movie begins, we're introduced to Matt (director/co-writer Matthew Johnson) and Owen (Owen Williams), two kids that are filming a movie for a school project called "The Dirties." Their movie is named for a gang of bullies that routinely beats up the pair,...
- 10/3/2013
- by Drew Taylor
- The Playlist
Can you laugh with the boy holding the gun? The short answer is, "Yes." The slightly longer answer is, "Quite a lot, but with a hell of a caveat." And the longest answer is the rest of this review. Looking like the freshest-faced 16-year old you could imagine, Canadian filmmaker Matt Johnson crab-walked, moon-walked -- or maybe he was doing the robot -- onto the internet scene with the out-there, faux-documentary web series Nirvana The Band The Show. The Dirties is his first feature, in which he also stars as... Matt Johnson. Matt and his buddy Owen Williams (Owen Williams) play high school film geeks who are the target of a group of bullies they dub 'The Dirties.' As a way to cope with the...
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- 10/3/2013
- Screen Anarchy
With wins at Slamdance in Park City and Austin's Fantastic Fest, Toronto filmmaker Matt Johnson's directorial debut "The Dirties" has started getting the attention of a whole lot of film fans -- including none other than Kevin Smith, who's helping bring the harrowing indie film to theatres and VOD this week as part of the newly-formed Kevin Smith Movie Club.
Told through found footage, "The Dirties" stars Johnson and Owen Williams as two teenage film buffs shooting a movie about getting revenge on the bullies who make high school hell. Only it turns out what they're actually documenting is the planning of a real-life school shooting, after what starts out as a twisted joke gets taken way too far.
That chilling subject matter is a tricky enough premise for veteran filmmakers to execute, let alone first-timers, which is exactly why "The Dirties" has been earning raves. Here are five...
Told through found footage, "The Dirties" stars Johnson and Owen Williams as two teenage film buffs shooting a movie about getting revenge on the bullies who make high school hell. Only it turns out what they're actually documenting is the planning of a real-life school shooting, after what starts out as a twisted joke gets taken way too far.
That chilling subject matter is a tricky enough premise for veteran filmmakers to execute, let alone first-timers, which is exactly why "The Dirties" has been earning raves. Here are five...
- 10/3/2013
- by Rick Mele
- Moviefone
Playing like a Hollywood found-footage teen movie by way of Funny Games' Michael Haneke, Matthew Johnson's The Dirties explores high school violence from a refreshingly original angle. Johnson presents us with bullied teens who plot revenge not from the typical position of introverted maladjustment but rather with an excited self-awareness—after procuring the blueprints for his high school, one maybe-killer reads journalist Dave Cullen's Columbine.
The book matters, but it's the fantasy-generating medium of cinema that inspires protagonists Matt (Johnson) and Owen (Owen Williams) to step back and reimagine their lives; they're making a movie titled, yes, The Dirties, in which heroes Matt and Owen kill the school bullies (dubbed "the Dirties")...
The book matters, but it's the fantasy-generating medium of cinema that inspires protagonists Matt (Johnson) and Owen (Owen Williams) to step back and reimagine their lives; they're making a movie titled, yes, The Dirties, in which heroes Matt and Owen kill the school bullies (dubbed "the Dirties")...
- 10/2/2013
- Village Voice
Plot: Two bullied high schoolers, Matt (Matthew Johnson) and Owen (Owen Williams) are making a movie in which they act out their revenge fantasies against a group of bullies called .The Dirties.. But as the film gets more and more elaborate, the boys start blurring the line between fantasy and reality. Review: The Dirties is kinda like a film geek's take on Elephant, and I don't mean for that to sound exploitative. In fact, I'd wager The Dirties is a far more affecting and disturbing...
- 9/30/2013
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Watch 2 new clips from The Dirties, starring Matthew Johnson, Owen Williams and Krista Madison. Johnson also directs and writes the film from Phase 4 Films / Kevin Smith Movie Club which opens in theaters and VOD from October 4th, 2013. The Dirties was the winner of “Best Narrative Feature” and the “Spirit of Slamdance Award” at the 2013 Slamdance Film Festival, and “Best Picture” at Fantastic Fest's Next Wave Spotlight Competition. The somewhat controversial and documentary-like story follows two high school buddies that are making a film for a class project about getting revenge on ruthless bullies at their school, as renegade detectives combating a local gang. After getting attacked again on their way home from school, the two joke...
- 9/27/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Clerks director Kevin Smith spends a lot of his life in California these days, but he’ll always have New Jersey in his blood — and his vernacular. As Bruce Springsteen once said about Frank Sinatra after their historic first encounter, “I was glad to find that his conversation was still peppered with the kinds of words that have made our state great.”
Kevin Smith can flat out talk. You could even say it’s his primary job these days, since he has repeatedly mulled retirement from directing and now hosts several popular podcasts. But the indie filmmaker, who made his...
Kevin Smith can flat out talk. You could even say it’s his primary job these days, since he has repeatedly mulled retirement from directing and now hosts several popular podcasts. But the indie filmmaker, who made his...
- 9/24/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Watch the trailer for The Dirties which Kevin Smith premiered at Hall H of Comic-Con this weekend. The film stars Matt Johnson and Owen Williams, and opens in theaters and on demand from October 4th, 2013. Directed by Matt Johnson from the script by Evan Morgan and Johnson, The Dirties is the winner of the 2013 Slamdance Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Film. Phase 4 Films and the Kevin Smith Movie Club present the film which tells of two best who friends team up to film a comedy about getting revenge on bullies. The exercise takes a devastating turn when one of them begins to think of it as more than a joke.
- 7/22/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Phase 4 Films announced in May that the company acquired all U.S. and Canadian rights to Matt Johnson’s The Dirties. The film stars Johnson and Owen Williams from a screenplay written by Johnson, Evan Morgan and Josh Boles. The film was produced by Matthew Miller along with Johnson, Morgan and Jared Raab.
The Dirties made its world premiere at the 2013 Slamdance Film Festival, where it won the Narrative Grand Jury Prize. Phase 4 will release the film on October 4 in theaters and on VOD via its distribution partnership with filmmaker Kevin Smith’s Kevin Smith Movie Club.
Smith and Johnson unveiled the new trailer at Comic Con in San Diego. The film showed to a sold-out crowd on Sunday at the Fantasia International Film Festival and will have one more screening on July 29th. If you’re going to the festival, you can grab your tickets here: http://www.
The Dirties made its world premiere at the 2013 Slamdance Film Festival, where it won the Narrative Grand Jury Prize. Phase 4 will release the film on October 4 in theaters and on VOD via its distribution partnership with filmmaker Kevin Smith’s Kevin Smith Movie Club.
Smith and Johnson unveiled the new trailer at Comic Con in San Diego. The film showed to a sold-out crowd on Sunday at the Fantasia International Film Festival and will have one more screening on July 29th. If you’re going to the festival, you can grab your tickets here: http://www.
- 7/22/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Fantasia 2013 has announced the second wave of titles screening this year. If the first wave, along with the announcements of special guests wasn’t enough to get you excited, this surely will.
009 Re: Cyborg
Japan Dir: Kenji Kamiyama
Mechanized mayhem, mysticism and moral ambiguity meet when the influential ’60s manga/anime property 009 Cyborg gets a dark, postmodern makeover care of the mighty Production I.G, in the spirit of the iconic Ghost In The Shell films. Anime fans won’t want to miss this one. North American Premiere.
Animals
Spain Dir: Marçal Forés
Evocative of both Donnie Darko and Leolo with a touch of Charles Burns, Animals taps into a volatile whirlpool of adolescent anxieties and identity issues, addressing complex themes through a wealth of unconventional approaches. A heavy trip, but an entertaining and fantastical one. Winner: Best First Feature, Sant Jordi de Cinematografia 2013, Official Selection: Sitges 2012, Miami International Film Festival 2013. Quebec Premiere.
009 Re: Cyborg
Japan Dir: Kenji Kamiyama
Mechanized mayhem, mysticism and moral ambiguity meet when the influential ’60s manga/anime property 009 Cyborg gets a dark, postmodern makeover care of the mighty Production I.G, in the spirit of the iconic Ghost In The Shell films. Anime fans won’t want to miss this one. North American Premiere.
Animals
Spain Dir: Marçal Forés
Evocative of both Donnie Darko and Leolo with a touch of Charles Burns, Animals taps into a volatile whirlpool of adolescent anxieties and identity issues, addressing complex themes through a wealth of unconventional approaches. A heavy trip, but an entertaining and fantastical one. Winner: Best First Feature, Sant Jordi de Cinematografia 2013, Official Selection: Sitges 2012, Miami International Film Festival 2013. Quebec Premiere.
- 7/3/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Marks the second consecutive year a Takashi Miike film has opened Montreal’s genre film festival.
Takashi Miike’s Shield of Straw, which screened in competition at Cannes, is to open the 17th edition of Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival (July 18 - August 6).
Miike’s crime thriller receives its North American premiere at Fantasia and continues the long relationship between the director and festival.
Last year, Fantasia opened with Miike’s For Love’s Sake and the festival’s 1997 screening of Fudoh marked the first time a film by the director had ever been shown in North America.
The festival will also host the world premiere of 24 Exposures, from mumblecore director Joe Swanberg. The film stars Adam Wingard as a fetish photographer whose models begin to turn up dead while Simon Barrett plays a cop tasked with investigating him.
Wingard and Barrett are the director-screenwriter duo behind You’re Next and A Horrible Way To Die. Fantasia...
Takashi Miike’s Shield of Straw, which screened in competition at Cannes, is to open the 17th edition of Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival (July 18 - August 6).
Miike’s crime thriller receives its North American premiere at Fantasia and continues the long relationship between the director and festival.
Last year, Fantasia opened with Miike’s For Love’s Sake and the festival’s 1997 screening of Fudoh marked the first time a film by the director had ever been shown in North America.
The festival will also host the world premiere of 24 Exposures, from mumblecore director Joe Swanberg. The film stars Adam Wingard as a fetish photographer whose models begin to turn up dead while Simon Barrett plays a cop tasked with investigating him.
Wingard and Barrett are the director-screenwriter duo behind You’re Next and A Horrible Way To Die. Fantasia...
- 7/3/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Phase 4 Films has acquired all U.S. and Canadian rights to Matt Johnson’s The Dirties. The film, which debuted at the 2013 Slamdance Film Festival, stars Johnson and Owen Williams from a screenplay written by Johnson, Evan Morgan and Josh Boles. The Dirties follows two best friends as they film a comedy about killing the bullies in their school. One of them isn't joking. Phase 4 will release the film this year in theaters and on VOD via its distribution partnership with filmmaker Kevin Smith’s Kevin Smith Movie Club. The film was produced by Matthew Miller along with Johnson, Morgan and Jared Raab.
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- 5/6/2013
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Phase 4 Films has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to the Matt Johnson-directed The Dirties, which Johnson stars in with Owen Williams. The script is by Johnson, Evan Morgan and Josh Boles. The film was produced by Matthew Miller along with Johnson, Morgan and Jared Raab. The pic won the Narrative Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance, and Phase 4 will release the film later this year in theaters and on VOD via its distribution partnership with filmmaker Kevin Smith’s Kevin Smith Movie Club. The Dirties follows two best friends as they film a comedy about killing the bullies in their school. One of them isn’t joking. Said Smith: “I’ve always wanted to say this about a movie I made and mean it, but never could. Now, thanks to The Dirties, I can: This is the most important film you will see all year. Matt Johnson has...
- 5/6/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
The Dirties won Best Narrative Feature and the Spirit of Slamdance Award at the 2013 Slamdance Film Festival, and made its way this week to the Dallas International Film Festival. While producer and cinematographer Jared Raab was in Dallas, writer/director and lead actor Matthew Johnson was at a screening at the Victoria TX Independent Film Festival (Vtxiff).
The Dirties revolves around two friends who share a passion for movies, Matt (Matthew Johnson) and Owen (Owen Williams). They are subjected to constant bullying while working on a movie for a high-school class project. After their initial film fails, the boys decide to create a revenge movie around their real-life antagonists, whom they refer to as "The Dirties." While Owen reconnects with a childhood sweetheart, Matt becomes obsessed as the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.
Johnson and writer/producer Matthew Miller drew inspiration for The Dirties from the 1992 French satire Man Bites Dog,...
The Dirties revolves around two friends who share a passion for movies, Matt (Matthew Johnson) and Owen (Owen Williams). They are subjected to constant bullying while working on a movie for a high-school class project. After their initial film fails, the boys decide to create a revenge movie around their real-life antagonists, whom they refer to as "The Dirties." While Owen reconnects with a childhood sweetheart, Matt becomes obsessed as the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.
Johnson and writer/producer Matthew Miller drew inspiration for The Dirties from the 1992 French satire Man Bites Dog,...
- 4/10/2013
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
The short answer is, "Yes."The slightly longer answer is, "Quite a lot, but with a hell of a caveat."And the long answer is the rest of this review.Looking like the freshest-faced 16-year old you could imagine, Canadian filmmaker Matt Johnson crab-walked, moon-walked -- or maybe he was doing the robot -- onto the internet scene with the out-there, mockdoc web series Nirvana The Band The Show. The Dirties is his first feature, which he also stars in as... Matt Johnson.Matt and his buddy Owen Williams (Owen Williams) play high school film geeks who are the target of a group of bullies they dub 'The Dirties.' As a way to cope with the abuse the boys decide to make a fantasy revenge film starring themselves as...
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- 1/23/2013
- Screen Anarchy
If there is a more controversial topic right now than schoolyard violence I don't know what it is. And the Slamdance Film Festival is sure to rile some feathers and provoke some conversation with Matt Johnson's debut feature The Dirties.The creator of web series Nirvana The Band The Show, Johnson costars here with Owen Williams as a pair of movie obsessed high schoolers trying to cope with a gang of bullies - who they've dubbed The Dirties. The pair fantasize about revenge in in a film project but when one wants to take it further things get disturbing.The first trailer arrived earlier this week via The Playlist, check it below....
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- 1/11/2013
- Screen Anarchy
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