Here’s how I can stay up to date with so many movies coming out. I have an entire bookmark tab for all the distributors I prefer. I know they’re are more but none too important to me. I check these distributors’ websites daily. I also watch shows like Beyond the Trailer, Film State, etc. which tell me more as well. If you start to enjoy independent films, there is always something to watch. Keep that in mind!
Oh yes! Tucker & Dale vs. Evil on Blu-ray has come in the mail today! I am very excited along with my family! They all are excited to see it and I’m excited to watch it again. Thank you Walmart for shipping it safely for me and including my personal gift packaging!
This movie is THE best, and it has shipped! RT @josiahkortje: Hallelujah!!! It has shipped!
I have wanted to see Tucker & Dale vs. Evil for a long time and I got my chance to see it at the Tallgrass Film Festival this year in October. About a month before that, before I even knew it was playing at the festival, on September 15, 2011 I pre-ordered this movie on Bluray at Walmart.com. I knew it would be worth it. After watching it at the film festival, I turned out to be right. It was one of the best and funniest movies I have ever seen! It releases tomorrow 11/29/2011 but Walmart sent me an email this morning saying they have shipped my bluray out and I’m freakin’ excited! Can’t wait to watch it again except this time with my siblings who haven’t seen it! It’s like an early Christmas present.
…I’m also going a little crazy with this because I just took an all nighter which I’m not good at, it was the last day of Thanksgiving break, I have school this morning, I’m tired but yet very excited. Yay!
There are so many awesome movies that have either come out or that are coming out since my last post. Many I have seen and many I still want to see. This top 5 for November looks pretty trusting and I hope you agree.
This month I’m not going to explain why I want to see the movies. I’ll link the movie’s IMDb page to the title and you can watch the trailer and get information there.
So, there you have it. A good collection of a few films I hope to see. I got the chance to see all the films from my last post except Machine Gun Preacher. I won’t see that until it releases which doesn’t seem soon. Films I have seen since are Tucker & Dale vs. Evil; The Selling; Paul; Lucky; The Long, Slow Death of a Twenty-Something; Sympathy for Delicious; Drive; Soul Surfer; Wrecked; Gunless; Hanna; The Ward; Ironclad; Henry’s Crime; Tower Heist; Everything Must Go; Inside Out; Horrible Bosses; and more. Many of those are really good, some turned out crummy (Inside Out). Now go out and see more great films, Hollywood films and Independent films.
This year, the Tallgrass Film Festival in Wichita had their 9th annual film festival. The theme this year was “Get Twisted.” It went from October 20th through the 23rd.
I learned that Wichita had a film festival last year as I was searching for festivals around the states on the internet. I was very surprised to find out we had a festival here but I was excited. This festival would give me an opportunity to see some great independent films on big screen, at an event meant for them. I missed it last year, however, but this year I was sure not to make that mistake again.
Two of the narrative films they had this year at the festival was Tucker & Dale vs Evil and The Selling. I mention these two because there are the two films I saw this year at the festival.
Tucker & Dale vs Evil played Friday night as a midnight showing at 11:45pm at the Wichita Orpheum Theater. When I read the update from Tallgrass’ e-newsletter that this movie was going to be screening here. I started jumping on and off my chair when I heard about this. I already had know about this movie since I follow the distributor Magnolia Pictures. This was THE one independent film I really wanted to see in theaters before it was released on DVD and Blu-ray. I wasn’t going to miss it. None of my siblings could go and my only hope was my father, who goes to bed at 10 every night to take me to the midnight screening of Tucker & Dale vs Evil.
Tucker & Dale vs Evil is a movie about college students and two hillbillies. The college kids go on a trip to the woods and same for the hillbillies. But the hillbillies are mistaken for murders by the college kids and war, if you will, starts between the two groups. This is a gory, blood comedy that you don’t want to miss. I pre-ordered the Blu-ray of this movie a month ago before I saw it at the festival. I am keeping my order as well. This movie is nonstop laughter with nauseation. The gore is so realistic and the comedy in perfect in every sentence. I became a fan of Tyler Labine with the first episode of ABC’s Reaper. The Sons of Tucson wasn’t so bad either. He does just as good in this movie if not better in this movie. Alan Tudyk and Katrina Bowden were very good as well. Eli Craig has proven himself with this movie as well and I hope to see more from him! www.tuckeranddale.com
The Selling played Saturday night at 9:15pm at the Wichita Scottish Rite Theater. I was looking through the list of feature films in this festival and this movie caught my eye. I had never heard of it before I saw it on their showing list but I clicked the trailer. I immediately wanted to see it after the trailer. I laughed hard just by watching the trailer, I knew it would be better to see the movie on big screen. I got my sister to take me to this screening that night.
The Selling is a movie about Richard Scarry, a real estate agent. He isn’t a good real estate agent. But he tries to sell a particular house Mary Best so eagerly passed to them so Richard could help pay for his mother’s medical bill. As Richard and his business partner Dave Ross prepare to sell the house, they find out the house is haunted by ghost. Richard has to try to sell the house while the ghost continue to haunt the house. This film pleased me with comedy I wish I saw more of in movies. While the film is keeping up a great story and great comedy, it keeps the comedy relatively appropriate. I was able to enjoy this movie while knowing the next lines weren’t going to be inappropriate. This independent film has it’s own, original idea that Hollywood can’t beat. Now, I’m just waiting for the DVD and Blu-ray release so I can pre-order it as soon as available. www.thesellingthemovie.com
All in all, I really enjoyed the Tallgrass Film Festival 2011. It was organized very well and there was a great collection of Narrative, foreign, documentary, and short films. Not to mention, I didn’t see it at the festival but I noticed Highway 9 won best student film award. I watched this short several month’s ago. Congrats to Parke and Bunee who were the filmmakers of that short. And congrats to The Selling for winning audience award for best narrative film! I look forward to the 10th annual Tallgrass Film Festival in 2012!
