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Movie Review: FOXED!
Pretty Clever Films Posted by beatriz.jereza on Jun 24, 2013
FOXED! is a 3D, stop-motion animated short film that immediately draws the viewer into a frightening and unforgiving world, where foxes keep a young girl, Emily, as their prisoner. Toronto-based director James Stewart wastes no time in creating a dark and uneasy tone that resonates until the end of read more
Need a Cartoon Fix?
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Sam Cooper on Jun 22, 2013
So for this week’s column I’m gonna do something a little different. Instead of yammering on about what animated feature film to watch I’m going to supply you with links to some of my favorite Youtube channels, all showcasing cartoons. These channels contain the original full-leng read more
Top 10 Movie Scenes That Will Make You Hungry
Pretty Clever Films Posted by jaredbratt on Jun 20, 2013
When it comes to the debate about movies being a cerebral, worthy, meaningful art-form, in defense of film, there’s always (thankfully) going to be that appropriately zealous someone to stand up and shout to the heavens: “The cinematic medium is a powerful force to be reckoned with!R read more
My Top 5 Guilty Pleasure Movies
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Wade Sheeler on Jun 20, 2013
Supposedly what makes you feel guilty about a “guilty pleasure” is despite your enjoyment of it, your fear of discovery of liking/loving said “lowbrow,” “embarrassing” or “campy” material, makes you keep it under wraps. Well, a good friend of mine says there should be no such thing as read more
Ginger Rogers: The Infamous Feather Gown
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Christina Stewart on Jun 19, 2013
Heaven, I’m in Heaven / And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak / And I seem to find the happiness I seek / When we’re out together dancing, cheek to cheek Reduced to… Feathers, I hate feathers / And I hate them so that I can hardly speak / And I never find the happiness I seek / With read more
Review: The Wind Is Whistling Under Their Feet (1976)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by John Munshour on Jun 19, 2013
The vast plains thunder with hoof beats and violence. An outlaw returns from prison seeking vengeance upon those who betrayed him and enters into a psychological duel with the morally ambiguous lawman who brought him to justice the first time. The landscape of 1830’s is changing, and conflict is br read more
Overlooked Gems: Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by lesleycoffin on Jun 18, 2013
Before The Great Outdoors, National Lampoons Vacation, or Summer Rental, there was the original summer vacation comedy, 1962’s Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation. And to watch it today, with a few minor exceptions, it becomes very obvious that things haven’t changed much in suburban America, particularly read more
Top 6 Chance Relationships in Film
Pretty Clever Films Posted by clairedunderman on Jun 18, 2013
Sometimes people meet because they’re in a class together or they happen to work together. Other times, the meet-cute is a little bit more out there, like finding a princess fast asleep on a park bench in Italy. No matter how the two meet, these are the pairs that, despite whether or not they read more
Review: Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Jeremy Prober on Jun 18, 2013
The synopsis on Mubi for Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa reads as follows: “As an actress, photographer, and official filmmaker for the Nazi party, Leni Riefenstahl is a controversial and legendary figure. In the 1970s, she moved to Sudan and lived among the Nuba tribesmen. This documentary read more
Top 5 Lost Films
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Christina Stewart on Jun 18, 2013
Cinephiles the world over heave a collective sigh at the startling number of lost films. What exactly are lost films anyway? A film is considered lost if it isn’t known to exist in any studio, public archive or private collection. Roughly between 70-90% of silent era films and almost 50% of sound read more
Top 5 Movie Lolitas
Pretty Clever Films Posted by msdean on Jun 17, 2013
Stoker, the latest offering from critically acclaimed filmmaker Park Chan-wook, director of the now classic Oldboy, features one of cinema’s favorite tropes – a Lolita. Named for Vladimir Nabovkov’s title characer, Lolita has become the catch-all term for the slightly too-young se read more
Top 10 Silent Comedians You’ve Never Heard Of
Pretty Clever Films Posted by msdean on Jun 17, 2013
While reading Steve Massa’s fantastic Lame Brains and Lunatics: The Good, The Bad, and The Forgotten of Silent Comedy, I started to feel like film’s silent comedians were clowns packed into a tiny circus car. Just when I thought there couldn’t be more, slapstick aficionado Massa w read more
Book Review: Lame Brains and Lunatics
Pretty Clever Films Posted by msdean on Jun 17, 2013
Silent film fanatics know all about the Holy Trinity of Slapstick Comedy, an entity I like to call Chaplinkeatonlloyd. Hell, even the casual silent movie observer has at least a glancing knowledge of Chaplinkeatonlloyd. But in the earliest years of the movie industry, it was slapstick that drew the read more
Win Stoker on Blu-Ray
Pretty Clever Films Posted by msdean on Jun 17, 2013
Stoker, from acclaimed filmmaker Park Chan-wook (Oldboy), hits the shelves on Blu-Ray on June 18, 2013. But you can enter to win a copy of this darkly wicked movie today, courtesy of Pretty Clever Films and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment! Following the tragic death of her father on her ei read more
Top 7 Underrated Film Noir Performances
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Laura Grande on Jun 14, 2013
Known for its German Expressionist-inspired visual style, film noir is a hybrid of gangster flick and detective mystery with an often pessimistic look at the greater social problems. Noirs are usually set in dark, crime-riddled cities — places that come alive in the night; crawling with gangs read more
Dementia 13: A 50th Anniversary Worth Celebrating?
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Wade Sheeler on Jun 13, 2013
This year we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola’s first offering as a film director. In September 1963, American International and Roger Corman released Dementia 13, one of the most inauspicious debuts from one of the greatest directors of the latter 20th century. Out now on Blu read more
How To Marry A Millionaire (1953)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Christina Stewart on Jun 12, 2013
What makes How To Marry A Millionaire a thoroughly enjoyable film? Is it because it stars the beautiful Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall in Technicolor? Maybe. Could it be that this was 20th Century-Fox’s first CinemaScope film, directed by Jean Negulesco? Perhaps. Or that the sparkli read more
The Dissolve
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jun 12, 2013
We’re so on top of what’s hot in the movie sites world here at Pretty Clever Films, we’re going to tell you about a film website that doesn’t even exist yet. Yeah… word to yo mama. Chicago based The Dissolve is set to launch sometime this summer. Currently, the (amazin read more
Book Review: Songs My Mother Taught Me
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Laura Grande on Jun 11, 2013
“I can draw no conclusions from my life because it is a continually evolving and unfolding process.”
- Marlon Brando, Songs My Mother Taught Me It still seems strange that, back in 1994, Marlon Brando agreed to reconstruct his own life for public consumption. Seventy years old at the ti read more
Ben Model’s Accidentally Preserved, Volume 1
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Bennett O'Brian on Jun 11, 2013
Our culture has been disposable for much longer than people realize. Before the era of cellphone upgrades, Ultra HD and other forms of planned obsolescence, there was disposable entertainment like comic books and movie advertisements – some of which have become extremely valuable because of so few read more