Film
Lights, Camera, But No Action
Tax incentives may be a devil’s bargain. But if Nevada wants to lure film production, it doesn’t have much choice.
April 5th, 2013
Silver State Production services founder Chris Ramirez invited me to take a seat in his office to discuss Nevada Senate Bill 165, the Motion Picture Jobs Creation Act. So I shook his hand, squeezed sideways past a desk just large enough for a laptop piled high with paper, and settled into the narrow, windowless cell that serves as the only private workspace in Silver State’s small studio in the creative warren of Fremont Street’s Emergency Arts. Read more »
Virgin Alexander Filmmakers Take DVD Victory Lap, Eye Next Project
August 16th, 2012
Local filmmakers Sean Fallon and Charlotte Barrett came out the gate with their debut feature Virgin Alexander, starring former Jersey Boys lead Rick Faugno last year, where it was a hit on the festival circuit -- including the Las Vegas Film Festival, where it won Best Feature. Read more »
Corman Gets His Due at Vegas Film Fest
May 24th, 2012
The Vegas Film Fest, which took place to little fanfare last week at the Suncoast Casino, might have been better served had it gone under the banner “The Roger Corman Film Fest.” Read more »
Neon Reverb's Film Component Needs More Attention
March 28th, 2012
If March 21’s film night of the Neon Reverb Festival was any indication, perhaps organizers are spreading themselves too thin. Including two media members and at two theater employees, maybe 10 people attended the screening of Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy at Theater 7. Read more »
Across the (Musical) Universe
February 23rd, 2012
A master class in juxtaposition, documentary film Re:Generation marries all the things you love about music with the people and sounds of another generation. Read more »
The Short of It
February 16th, 2012
While there’s still a gaping hole in Las Vegas film culture since the demise of CineVegas, Boulder City’s Dam Short Film Festival put on another quality fest this year. Read more »
Movie Review
An Orthodox Jew Walks Into a Bar …
Holy Rollers tells the true story of what happens when religion meets drug smuggling
June 3rd, 2010
Despite the misleading title, Holy Rollers is not a film about an offbeat Protestant talking in tongues. It is, instead, a harrowing, fact-based footnote to the history of the illicit drug trade, involving a small group of Hasidic Jews who were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States in the late 1990s. Read more »
Film
Watch on the Wild Side
Two film festivals this week display the kinky, grindy, gory side of cinema
May 13th, 2010
CineVegas was great, but it never pushed the envelope far enough for my tastes,” filmmaker Chad Clinton Freeman says. “Now with it on hiatus there’s nothing much at all for fans of edgy cinema here in Vegas.” Read more »
