Q92: Victoria's Best Music Station » sxsw http://kqvt.com Victoria's Best Music Station Mon, 20 May 2013 01:25:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 'Spring Breakers' Review http://kqvt.com/spring-breakers-review/ http://kqvt.com/spring-breakers-review/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:59:28 +0000 Matt Singer http://screencrush.com/?p=89079 James Franco might not be the best actor working in movies today, but he's almost certainly the most fearless. His choices are as unpredictable as they are gutsy. He'll try just about anything: television dramas ('Freaks & Geeks'), soap operas ('General Hospital'), comedies ('Pineapple Express'), and big blockbusters ('Spider-Man,' 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'). His latest role, in Harmony Korine's 'Spring Breakers,' might be his craziest and most daring to date. He plays Alien -- pronounced "A-Leen" in Franco's South Florida drawl -- a drug dealer and aspiring rapper who likes to boast that he's from another planet. Franco's performance is suitably extraterrestrial: hilarious, disturbing, deranged, poignant and endlessly quotable. In an instant classic scene, Alien shows off all his prized possessions -- machine guns and money and nunchucks and 'Scarface' DVDs on constant repeat -- while screaming "Look at my s---!" Alien's orders are superfluous; any time Franco's onscreen, you can't take your eyes off him.

]]> http://kqvt.com/spring-breakers-review/feed/ 0 A24 Super Mario Brothers Get the Indie Film Treatment in 'Mario' [VIDEO] http://kqvt.com/super-mario-brothers-get-the-indie-film-treatment-in-%e2%80%98mario%e2%80%99-video/ http://kqvt.com/super-mario-brothers-get-the-indie-film-treatment-in-%e2%80%98mario%e2%80%99-video/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:30:48 +0000 Amory Gritta http://kqvt.com/?p=1568 A live-action re-imagination of Nintendo 8-bit hero Super Mario as an angsty, mushroom-eating, down-on-his-luck plumber was a big hit this week at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas.

"Mario" is a trailer-length short which filmmaker Joe Nicolosi doesn't intend to turn into a feature film. You can check out all two minutes of the project below.

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