One of the things I want to emphasize about this year's "Eastbound & Down" episodes is how thematically strong the writing's been. This week's rumination on the idea of how to be an alpha is a great standalone piece of work, regardless of where it fits into the larger arc of Kenny Powers. Written by Jody Hill & Danny McBride & Justin Nowell, there's so much meat to what they did this week that it's hard to believe they packed it all into a mere 28 minutes. Who is the alpha this season? Guy Young (Ken Marino) has stepped up to...
- 10/21/2013
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
Eastbound and Down Season 4, Episode 4 “Chapter 25″
Written by Jody Hill, Danny McBride & Justin Nowell
Directed by David Gordon Green
Airs Sunday nights at 10:30Pm on HBO
“Losers always forget.”
As it often does, “Chapter 25″ hides its message in between the dick jokes and the obnoxious voice overs, bouncing between workplace and suburban unrest to quietly explore the existential angst that’s defined the first half of Eastbound and Down‘s final season. Although it sees Kenny “win” in just about every realm of his life, “Chapter 25″ is more interested in the moments in between, when he’s running over other families and adversaries in pursuit of immortality – deep down, there’s a part of Kenny just waiting for it to all fall apart: and in few scenes, a Kenny that almost wants it to all go to shit one last time.
It seems a ridiculous notion on the surface:...
Written by Jody Hill, Danny McBride & Justin Nowell
Directed by David Gordon Green
Airs Sunday nights at 10:30Pm on HBO
“Losers always forget.”
As it often does, “Chapter 25″ hides its message in between the dick jokes and the obnoxious voice overs, bouncing between workplace and suburban unrest to quietly explore the existential angst that’s defined the first half of Eastbound and Down‘s final season. Although it sees Kenny “win” in just about every realm of his life, “Chapter 25″ is more interested in the moments in between, when he’s running over other families and adversaries in pursuit of immortality – deep down, there’s a part of Kenny just waiting for it to all fall apart: and in few scenes, a Kenny that almost wants it to all go to shit one last time.
It seems a ridiculous notion on the surface:...
- 10/21/2013
- by Randy Dankievitch
- SoundOnSight
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s crafty adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s arson investigation story, Spike Jonze’s birthday present to Maurice Sendak, Spencer Susser’s ode to teenage romance amidst zombie infestation, and Justin Nowell’s meditation on fake orgasms were four of the six shorts screened at the Wholphin No. 9 & No. 10 DVD release party held this month at the Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles. Wholphin editors Brent Hoff and Emily Doe partnered with …...
- 12/16/2009
- Indiewire
What's turning me on this week? Justin Nowell's "O" face. And sweaty naked Filipinos. There's a lot of sex in movies these days, and, I'd argue -- even more of it in independent film. Independent and/or arthouse movies have largely championed what I believe to be the paramount intent of the art form that is 'film' -- that is, pushing boundaries, re-framing cultural issues, and using a visual story-telling format to express alternative ways and means of comprehending things close, foreign, and completely inimitable. Truly independent film largely skirts the burden of having to be a marketable piece of cinema, and, as such, can (thankfully) challenge us in several areas -- one being the collective sexual identity of humankind. And that's where I find myself today, finding Sex-as-a-concept dripping all over artful entertainment. In the indie vehicle World's Greatest Dad, the issue of auto-erotic masturbation (one that's cropped up all over the place in the...
- 8/24/2009
- by Bethany Perryman
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Head over to Festival Ambassador to see Mike Jones's coverage of the festival (part 1, part 2 & part 3), which wrapped over the weekend with Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s Easier With Practice winning the Grand Prize of $10,000. Other winners include: Best Documentary: Douglas Tirola’s All In: The Poker Movie Best Short: Destin Daniel’s Short Term 12 Special Grand Jury Prize for Directing: Justin Nowell’s Acting for the Camera Special Documentary Jury Prize for Artistic Vision: Jessica Oreck's Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo Robert Saitzyk (director) and Cory Knauf and Joseph McKelheer (screenwriters) Exceptional Artistic Achievement Award for Godspeed Filmmaker to Watch Award: Jeff Mizushima's Etienne!
- 6/15/2009
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
- Big ideas sometimes come in small packages. A couple of years back, my top film from the Sundance film fest was exactly just that -- a short film by a commercials director named Carter Smith. Bugcrush would go on to claim many international film awards and has set the one time photographer on a career path in feature filmmaking. They used to call the form the best calling card for an eventual feature length career --- now with the whole viral thing the short form complements an auteur’s body of work. 5,632 submissions were submitted this year with 96 short films making the cut including the impressive Next Floor from Denis Villeneuve (see pic). When I cover Sundance I usually don’t attend the short programs, I’ll occasionally catch When I’m not seeing the shorts that come right before select feature length films, I’ll attempt to grab as many screeners,
- 12/9/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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