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Date:
10/27/2009Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Film
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published "It starts from a love of the cute and furry animals," explained filmmaker Amy Do, director of Docfest's Rabbit Fever. "Kids start with them as pets, and it just keeps growing." The Appeal chatted with Amy before the premier of her documentary Sunday night at the Roxie, and asked her the same question that absolutely everyone must: why on Earth have you made a movie about competitive teenage rabbit breeding?... [Read more...]
Date:
08/31/2009Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published It wasn't really fair of us to go to last weekend's Zine Fest looking for comics -- they're not really the same thing, are they? But lately we've had our fill of the sharpies and scotch tape and fervent prose that is intensely personal and therefore almost completely incomprehensible. So it was with an eye for picture books that we wandered into what is charmingly called "The County Fair Building"... [Read more...]
Date:
06/29/2007Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Film
· Writing » News Coverage » SFist
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Whoops, sorry we're so late getting this post up -- we lost our notes and tore up the house before resigning ourselves to the idea that somewhere, someone is going to find a notebook with "the lighter side of rape" scrawled across the first page. That comment refers to Give Piece of Ass a Chance, a new Bruce LaBruce short that preceeded Starrbooty. It's a speculative spoofing of the... [Read more...]
Date:
02/04/2007Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published How is it that you've never heard of The Ballad of Halo Jones? It's been around for about 20 years, so you have absolutely no excuse for not diving into this unjustifiably unknown sci-fi pleasure. The year is 4950 or so, and life sucks for a group of young women living in a messy unemployment colony called "The Hoop." Mean aliens, dangerous criminals, and inescapable poverty drive some folks to... [Read more...]
Date:
08/21/2006Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Oh we've got some tough cookies this week, yes sir. Fresh from the macho shelves at Isotope and onto your manly plate come The Boys, about a group of vigilantes taking revenge against reckless superheros; The Savage Brothers, about a team of zombie bounty hunters; and Casanova, which is difficult to interpret but appears to relate to some kind of slick superspying. Let's kick it off with The Savage... [Read more...]
Date:
08/07/2006Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Jack is shy and artsy, which isn't helping him with his primary goal: attracting chicks. "Jack and Lucky," by bay-area artist Anthony Hon, chronicles the travails of a lonely, horny 20-something. Oh and also, and this is never explained but somehow doesn't seem all that out of the ordinary, he lives with a giant talking 300-pound cat. Like the talking monkey in Rob Osborne's 1000 Steps to World Domination,... [Read more...]
Date:
08/04/2006Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Film
· Writing » Topic » lgbtView article as originally published "Finally, we have our own gay American Pie," Frameline board member and friend-of-SFist Glenn Kiser said as he introduced Another Gay Movie. Frameline sneak-peek-screened the film last month to a sold-out audience, and now it finally opens tonight at the Castro. And, yeah, that's a fairly accurate description: it's a naughty, goofy, lowbrow romp (yes! that's right! a romp!) about a team of gay kids who want nothing more out... [Read more...]
Date:
07/24/2006Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published When we're reading comics about hard-boiled female reporters unflinchingly uncovering terrible secrets during a time of war, we don't want to see delicate ladies -- we want to see take-no-prisoners broads. Like the classic plucky Lois Lane, or like trousers-wearing Amy Archer in The Hudsucker Proxy, or like the tenacious Nina Totenburg. The character of Charlotte Hemming, in Ian Edgington and Matt Brooker's Scarlet Traces: The Great Game, does not... [Read more...]
Date:
06/19/2006Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published You know how it is sometimes to look at photos from the 80s, where it's all cute young cheeks and happy tow-headed promise, and now twenty years later all the kids in the pictures have been worn down by their dreams falling apart and everything they love being taken away? (Or at least, that's how we feel when we listen to Bright Eyes.) So anyway, issue three of Joshua W.... [Read more...]
Date:
05/30/2006Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Before we get to this week's comic books, we must first point out that Issue 2 of Kevin McShane's Toupydoops has, as the kids say, hit the stands. (We reviewed Issue 1 a few weeks ago.) This latest installment sees our heros standing in line to get into a club where, it turns out, everybody sucks. Poseurs and floozies and five dollar beers deflate their enthusiasm for Los Angeles, but... [Read more...]
Date:
11/07/2005Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Film
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published We've said it before and we'll say it again: You are all a bunch of weirdos. There was probably no greater message than that to be gleaned from Saturday night's CineKink screenings; that all humans are strange and kinky creatures, and the ones who don't admit it are the weirdoiest of them all. The NYC-based fest flogs itself as a celebration of "alternative sexuality," a term almost as ambiguous and... [Read more...]
Date:
06/27/2005Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Film
· Writing » Reviews
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published It's not easy watching somebody die, but Tammy Faye: Death Defying relishes every minute. Slow piano music, swooshy overproduced graphics, gosh-darn-it voiceovers by the lady herself, and crying -- oh God, so much crying -- might leave you thinking that Ms. Messner's the first person to ever need chemotherapy. A mundane follow-up to the incredible The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Death Defying strips away so much of Tammy Faye's... [Read more...]
