Año Uña is a movie that definitely defies the regular rules of film because it tells the story in a sequence of 24 photographs flipped as the story progresses. All of this is actually based on director Jonas Cuaron‘s real life experience taking pictures of his family for two years straight, which inspired the script for Año Uña. The film is about Molly, a college student traveling to Mexico to escape the problems she has in New York, and Diego, (Diego Catano) a 14 year old Mexican whose family takes in Molly for international housing in order to pay for their grandfather’s cancer treatment. The story takes place in modern day America and in Mexico and, just as the language changes, so do the subtitles, from translated English, to translated Spanish. As … Read entire article »

SXSW film festival held a special screening of a film called Goliath, named for a cat who is owned by an unnamed main character. This middle aged male character (David Zellner) is experiencing the bad luck in life and nothing is going right. He is getting a divorce, he is demoted from his job, and on top of it all, he just lost his cat, Goliath. In his utter loneliness he devotes his time to watching obscure Asian porn and doing housework. The concept does sound like this movie should win an award for the amount of thought and fluidity of the story, but the film fails to deliver this tale. The direction and editing fell short and the sound was either really loud or really soft as if there was … Read entire article »