Ten Borscht Film Festival Short Films You Can Watch Right Now

We noticed yesterday that Play Dead, a Borscht Film Festival selection last year, had been posted on Vimeo in its entirety for all the world to enjoy. And it’s made quite a splash, getting featured on the Vimeo homepage this morning. Not surprising, we thought, since the short film features…

Gallery Girls, Episode Three: Drunk Girls and Daddy Issues

See more Gallery Girls recaps and interviews.Gallery Girls isn’t about the New York City art scene. It’s not about young girls following their dreams. It’s not a real-life Sex and the City, where women band together to get through their daily lives.Hell no. Gallery Girls is about the girl fights.There…

Adan Jodorowsky On Fame, His Father, and His Miami Horror Odyssey

See Adan Jodorowsky, Son of Filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, to Shoot Borscht-Produced Film in Miami.Adan Jodorowsky — actor, musician, and son of renowned cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky — has every intention of making Miami’s seedy underbelly the backdrop of his surreal horror odyssey, The Voice Thief.The film is a collaboration with…

Robot & Frank, a Look at the Mechanics of Love and Aging

In a world where drivers take instruction from tiny boxes on their dashboards, where computers facilitate socializing more than face-to-face contact, and where celebrities from Zooey Deschanel to Martin Scorcese encourage us to treat our phones as friends, the line between man and machine is increasingly blurred. Robot & Frank,…

Action Movies Don’t Have to Suck

Remember how action movies used to be? The good old-fashioned American (but often European-accented) ones from the ’80s and ’90s, the type paid tribute to (but not necessarily re-created) in the Expendables movies? No offense to your Iron Men and your Jason Bournes, but I miss movies like Die Hard,…

David Koepp, Director of Premium Rush, at the End of Civilization

David Koepp writes, and now directs, superior B-movies. This is an admirable and tough-to-master skill given how few major movie studios are willing to take chances on films with lower budgets that don’t employ a found-footage gimmick or generally look like they were made on an aglet-less shoestring budget. So…

Gallery Girls, Episode Two: Budgets, Bitches, and Flying Bechamel

See our recap of Gallery Girls, Episode One.When Gallery Girls debuted last week, people like us compared the reality show to HBO’s fictional series Girls. And other people got all salty about it, saying the comparison is unfair because Girls is actually great and misunderstood and blah blah blah.Our response?…

Magic City Wants You to Be an Extra, Maybe

See what happens in the Magic City season one finale; Magic City’s redband trailer; and our interviews with the show’s stars.When word got out that Magic City’s casting directors had trouble finding Miami actors without breast implants a couple months ago, hundreds of this city’s au naturel women cursed at…