The first batch of 2010 releases hit theatres today, and as always, there are some questionable ones. However, it seems like both Daybreakers and Youth in Revolt have the potential to rise above the usual January dreck as early reviews have been mostly positive. Daybreakers is a sci-fi action film about a future world where vampires are running out of supplies of fresh blood (ie. humans). Youth in Revolt is a Michael Cera comedy based on the novel by C.D. Payne. Other new movies include the Amy Adams rom-com Leap Year, Tim Allen's directorial debut Crazy on the Outside, and the throwback female exploitation flick Bitch Slap, which is playing in just 3 theatres but also available on VOD. What will you be checking out this weekend? Daybreakers [1] Youth in Revolt [2] Leap Year [3] Bitch Slap [4] (limited) Crazy on the Outside [5] (limited) Waiting for Armageddon [6] (limited) Wonderful World [7] (limited) [1] http://www.imdb.
- 1/8/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
For those who believe the Rapture is imminent, bad news is good news. Environmental catastrophe? War in the Middle East? Declining morals? All signs that Biblical prophecy is being fulfilled, and that we’re perhaps minutes away from The End Of Days and Jesus’ return. The documentary Waiting For Armageddon lets a handful of the devout explain their worldview in greater detail, yet filmmakers Kate Davis, Franco Sacchi, and David Heilbroner don’t go looking for the simple-minded or easily mockable. They talk to pastors, professors, and well-off, well-spoken families, and ask them what it means to live every day ...
- 1/7/2010
- avclub.com
First Run Features
Grade: B+
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter By Harvey Karten
Directed by: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner, Frank Sacchi
Written By: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner, Frank Sacchi
Cast: James Bagg, Laura Bagg, Tony Edwards, Devonna Edwards, Dr.H. Wayne House
Screened at: Critics. DVD, NYC, 12/25/09
Opens: January 8, 2010
These folks are meshuga, but film-makers Kate Davis, Frank Sacchi and David Heilbroner do not necessarily think so. Their documentary, "Waiting for Armageddon," avoids political stances, concentrating on a religious movement.s sociology (or is it anthropology)? As you listen to people from the fundamentalist wing of the Evangelical movement, people who are certainly not rubes given their Ph.Ds., their careers in engineering, you.ve got to wonder: what is the Earth coming to?
The people who speak their minds in this exceptionally well-made documentary, which is loaded with dramatic archival films of devastation (including a look at the mushroom cloud...
Grade: B+
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter By Harvey Karten
Directed by: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner, Frank Sacchi
Written By: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner, Frank Sacchi
Cast: James Bagg, Laura Bagg, Tony Edwards, Devonna Edwards, Dr.H. Wayne House
Screened at: Critics. DVD, NYC, 12/25/09
Opens: January 8, 2010
These folks are meshuga, but film-makers Kate Davis, Frank Sacchi and David Heilbroner do not necessarily think so. Their documentary, "Waiting for Armageddon," avoids political stances, concentrating on a religious movement.s sociology (or is it anthropology)? As you listen to people from the fundamentalist wing of the Evangelical movement, people who are certainly not rubes given their Ph.Ds., their careers in engineering, you.ve got to wonder: what is the Earth coming to?
The people who speak their minds in this exceptionally well-made documentary, which is loaded with dramatic archival films of devastation (including a look at the mushroom cloud...
- 12/25/2009
- Arizona Reporter
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