Brendan Twist

The Innkeepers: Ti West Plumbs Another House of Horror

Director Ti West turned heads in 2009 with The House of the Devil, an offbeat, low-budget horror flick about a girl who takes the babysitting gig from hell. That film stood out most for its early-80s throwback vibe...

Oscar-nominated animated shorts screen at Prytania

If there’s one thing that can be said of this year’s Oscar nominees for best animated short, besides the fact that they all feature great musical scores (don’t cartoons have the best music?), it...

Murder, Mayhem and metal: Music doc screens at Zeitgeist.

Skulls and Satan have long been a part of heavy metal iconography, but nowadays most people consider metal more campy than creepy. After watching a henpecked Ozzy Osbourne dither about in his PJs, there’s nothing very scary about...

Film Fest: Tyler Perry and Oprah produce Precious picture

New Orleans Film FestMovie Review:Precious: Based on the Novel Push by SapphireSet in Harlem in 1987, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire drew interest during previews for featuring the kind of marginalized character that almost never serves...

Film Fest: Zac Efron and life after Disney

New Orleans Film FestMovie Review:Me and Orson WellesWhen Richard Linklater took the stage at the Prytania Theatre on Friday evening for a Q&A following a screening of his new film Me and Orson Welles, he was almost...

New Orleans Film Fest Kicks Off

Beat the heat. Vacate your multiplex. Turn off the football games. Well, maybe not that LSU-Florida matchup, but even so, the time has come to bunker down and enjoy a serious slate of movies. The 20th annual New Orleans...

The Goonies, Big Lebowski headline Prytania's Midnite Movies

The fall movie season will soon be upon us, and that means the studios will begin cramming theaters with Oscar bait and adult dramas. Inevitably, there will be some very good movies and some very boring ones. But those in...

Louisiana Film Museum celebrates a rich cinematic history

Jeffrey Guice, a New Orleans native who spent the last 26 years living in the Northeast, wanted to give back to his hometown. “I was always thinking, how can I contribute to the rebuilding of the city?” Guice...

Canal Place Cinema to close for renovations

The Canal Place Cinema, New Orleans’ premier theater for independent film, will close next month and undergo multi-million dollar renovations, the Times-Picayune reported this week.Roger Ogden, owner of the Shops at Canal Place, which houses the...

South Korean classic to screen at Contemporary Arts Center

Summer has long been the reigning season for big budget action extravaganzas. This year has proved no different, with flicks like G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (now closing in on $400 million...

The Innkeepers: Ti West Plumbs Another House of Horror

Oscar-nominated animated shorts screen at Prytania

Murder, Mayhem and metal: Music doc screens at Zeitgeist.

Film Fest: Tyler Perry and Oprah produce Precious picture

Film Fest: Zac Efron and life after Disney

New Orleans Film Fest Kicks Off

The Goonies, Big Lebowski headline Prytania's Midnite Movies

Louisiana Film Museum celebrates a rich cinematic history

Canal Place Cinema to close for renovations

South Korean classic to screen at Contemporary Arts Center

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