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In conjunction with Idw, we’re giving away a copy of The Bloom County Library: Volume 1.
In conjunction with Universal Home Video, we’re giving away five (5) copies of Bruno on DVD.
In conjunction with Fox Home Video, we’re giving away three (3) copies of It’S Always Sunny In Philadelphia: A Very Sunny Christmas on DVD.
In conjunction with Fox Home Video, we’re giving away three (3) copies of Fight Club on Blu-Ray.
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In conjunction with New Line Home Video,...
In conjunction with Idw, we’re giving away a copy of The Bloom County Library: Volume 1.
In conjunction with Universal Home Video, we’re giving away five (5) copies of Bruno on DVD.
In conjunction with Fox Home Video, we’re giving away three (3) copies of It’S Always Sunny In Philadelphia: A Very Sunny Christmas on DVD.
In conjunction with Fox Home Video, we’re giving away three (3) copies of Fight Club on Blu-Ray.
In conjunction with New Line Home Video, we’re giving away five (5) copies of Shorts on DVD.
In conjunction with New Line Home Video,...
- 11/12/2009
- by UncaScroogeMcD
In conjunction with New Video NYC, we’re giving away five (5) copies of Skills Like This on DVD.
Contest ends at 11:59pm Est on Wednesday, December 2nd.
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No member of Quick Stop Entertainment or their immediate families may enter.
No Purchase necessary to win.
Must be 18 years of age or older to enter.
One entry per day, per person.
All submitted entries must be received by 11:59pm Est on Wednesday, December, 2nd.
The winner must allow 4-6 weeks after notification of win to receive the product.
Contest ends at 11:59pm Est on Wednesday, December 2nd.
Enter the contest! Email: First name: Last name: Street Address: Address Line 2 (if needed): City: State/Province/Whatever: Zip Code/Postal Code: Country: Birth Month: JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember Birth Day: 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Birth Year:
Official Rules
No member of Quick Stop Entertainment or their immediate families may enter.
No Purchase necessary to win.
Must be 18 years of age or older to enter.
One entry per day, per person.
All submitted entries must be received by 11:59pm Est on Wednesday, December, 2nd.
The winner must allow 4-6 weeks after notification of win to receive the product.
- 11/12/2009
- by UncaScroogeMcD
If I could define the main film theme of the '00s, it would be the presentation of the emptiness of soul. The lack of fulfillment in corporate blah (anti-corporate themes are also as prevalent this decade) and the growing restlessness in mainstream film. It's snark against the machine. An example of this can be seen in Skills Like This from director Monty Miranda, which exemplifies the glass half-empty mentality that permeates through Generation X-y. And it has the best white guy afro to ever grace the big screen.
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- 4/30/2009
- ReelLoop.com
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The New Twenty This is only playing here in New York at the tiniest screen known to mankind (Hi, Quad!) For a first film it's quite good. Ignore the generic 'we'll get the gays to see it!' poster (if the leading man looks familiar think Beyonce's "If I Were a Boy" video) and somewhat clumsy title. The plot is a little shapeless but the characters are quite likeable and engaging. The sex lives and friendships of this makeshift family, some gay some straight, are more realistic than you usually see in movies. All that plus the film doesn't push its jokes -- some of the characters just happen to be funny. That's the way we like our laughs in ensemble dramas. B
Hunger If you've been reading lately you know that I highly recommend this one, the true story of a hunger...
The New Twenty This is only playing here in New York at the tiniest screen known to mankind (Hi, Quad!) For a first film it's quite good. Ignore the generic 'we'll get the gays to see it!' poster (if the leading man looks familiar think Beyonce's "If I Were a Boy" video) and somewhat clumsy title. The plot is a little shapeless but the characters are quite likeable and engaging. The sex lives and friendships of this makeshift family, some gay some straight, are more realistic than you usually see in movies. All that plus the film doesn't push its jokes -- some of the characters just happen to be funny. That's the way we like our laughs in ensemble dramas. B
Hunger If you've been reading lately you know that I highly recommend this one, the true story of a hunger...
- 3/21/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
12.00 Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In the world of Indie film, the plotless ramble has been a staple for many years now, chiefly because they're suitably cheap and suitably manageable. Dialogue heavy, character driven, they can be set anywhere you like, with whoever you like and about anything you like. And while some are outstanding and others just plain dreadful, most of them at least have the decency to be about something. It's a relatively small, but relatively important detail that seems to have gotten lost somewhere with Skills Like This, which is maddening because it offers a quite unique and intriguing set up that's positively bursting with possibilities.
During the final act of Max's (Spencer Berger) latest stage opus, somewhere around the closing soliloquy delivered by the spaceman, the Wwi fighter ace and the Hispanic gypsy (which is so bad his grandfather has a coronary in...
During the final act of Max's (Spencer Berger) latest stage opus, somewhere around the closing soliloquy delivered by the spaceman, the Wwi fighter ace and the Hispanic gypsy (which is so bad his grandfather has a coronary in...
- 3/21/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- JustPressPlay.net
A year ago, Monty Miranda’s “Skills Like This” was one of the favorites at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival, winning the audience award for best narrative feature. Since, it has gone on to screen at dozens of fests, including Edinburgh, Starz Denver, Atlanta, and Jacksonville. In the film, three friends have their lives turned upside down when one of them realizes that larceny might be his best skill. indieWIRE spoke with …...
- 3/20/2009
- indieWIRE - People
If at first you don't succeed, rob a bank.
Twenty-something Max, the focal point of the slacker comedy "Skills Like This," discovers the hard way that he's not meant to be a writer his grandfather suffers a massive heart attack while watching Max's dreadful play, "The Onion Dance."
So Max, a white dude with a giant Afro, robs a bank and discovers for the first time that he's good at something: a life of crime.
"All chicks want to bang a robber," Max (Spencer Berger, who also scripted) tells his buddies.
And that very night,...
Twenty-something Max, the focal point of the slacker comedy "Skills Like This," discovers the hard way that he's not meant to be a writer his grandfather suffers a massive heart attack while watching Max's dreadful play, "The Onion Dance."
So Max, a white dude with a giant Afro, robs a bank and discovers for the first time that he's good at something: a life of crime.
"All chicks want to bang a robber," Max (Spencer Berger, who also scripted) tells his buddies.
And that very night,...
- 3/20/2009
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
Most of the time, the indie-quirk genre is well-nigh intolerable, filled with broadly sketched characters speaking and behaving in ways that bear little relation to actual human behavior, in service of some sophomoric point about conformity or love or family. Skills Like This is only a partial exception. Aspiring more toward slacker comedy in the Office Space or Bottle Rocket vein than aching poignancy, Skills Like This is never great. But for its first half-hour, it’s more fitfully amusing than a movie about a bank-robbing playwright ought to be. The preposterously frizzy-haired Spencer Berger (who also wrote the film ...
- 3/19/2009
- avclub.com
This week at the movies, we've got a bromantic comedy (I Love You, Man, starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel), ominous numerology (Knowing, starring Nicolas Cage and Rose Byrne), and corporate mischief (Duplicity, starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen). We've also got a thriller about immigration from Central America (Sin Nombre), a showbiz dramedy (The Great Buck Howard, starring John Malkovich and Emily Blunt), a doc about an Italian fashion icon (Valentino: the Last Emperor), an indie crime caper comedy (Skills Like This), and a cinematic essay about artist/filmmaker Michel Auder (The Feature). What do the critics have to say?...
- 3/19/2009
- Rotten Tomatoes
As the San Francisco Independent Film Festival drew to a close yesterday, it bowed out with a final night time showing of Deadgirl, a controversial picture that challenges the audience's idea of sex and the coming-of-age. It's a nice bookmark to its opening night film, Somers Town, which is also about two teenage boys and a girl, but is at the opposite end of the spectrum. In between, we have films that are either full of life or apologetically cynical, completing a journey from the sweet to the depraved.
Here's a recap of the interesting independent films we had the chance to see.
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The Best
Deadgirl
"It uses otherworldly elements to perform a horrific probe of the human experience, which is what the best horror films always do." (Read more)
Somers Town
"After confronting xenophobia so thoroughly and intensely in This is England, Somers Town is the perfect show of progression,...
Here's a recap of the interesting independent films we had the chance to see.
• • •
The Best
Deadgirl
"It uses otherworldly elements to perform a horrific probe of the human experience, which is what the best horror films always do." (Read more)
Somers Town
"After confronting xenophobia so thoroughly and intensely in This is England, Somers Town is the perfect show of progression,...
- 2/23/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
What if you discover that you were born to steal?
That’s the central premise of Skills Like This, a post-collegiate comedy about finding your place in the world—even if it is criminal. Monty Miranda’s debut film sets itself apart from other noted independent comedies by dropping the indie-cute hip and distances itself from other similar slacker-flicks by infusing a high level of fast-paced rock-and-roll energy. A previous rougher version of the film won the Audience Award at SXSW in 2007, so there's little surprise that its final version is the coolest, funniest movie I saw at this year’s Indiefest.
Screenwriter and star Spencer Berger is Max, a dead-end playwright with a huge Jewfro whose stage play "Onion Dance" is so incomprehensibly bad that his grandfather goes into a coma watching it, raising the question “Can someone see something so shitty that they almost die from it?” Clearly,...
That’s the central premise of Skills Like This, a post-collegiate comedy about finding your place in the world—even if it is criminal. Monty Miranda’s debut film sets itself apart from other noted independent comedies by dropping the indie-cute hip and distances itself from other similar slacker-flicks by infusing a high level of fast-paced rock-and-roll energy. A previous rougher version of the film won the Audience Award at SXSW in 2007, so there's little surprise that its final version is the coolest, funniest movie I saw at this year’s Indiefest.
Screenwriter and star Spencer Berger is Max, a dead-end playwright with a huge Jewfro whose stage play "Onion Dance" is so incomprehensibly bad that his grandfather goes into a coma watching it, raising the question “Can someone see something so shitty that they almost die from it?” Clearly,...
- 2/17/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
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