It appears that Awesome Fest, the series of outdoor film screenings that took over Philadelphia every summer between 2010 and 2014, won’t happen at all this year. News broke in March that Awesome Fest founder Josh Goldbloom is suing his…
ATTN Facebook has alerted me to an emergency situation in the vicinity of 13th and Reed streets. Aghast at a troubling gap in a fellow American’s cinematic literacy, one selfless hero seeks to get his/her roommate to finally watch the…
It’s hard to find anyone in the Philadelphia media world who didn’t, in some way or another, know Vijay Mohan. The 26-year-old filmmaker and activist was familiar to many in the city, especially among its small but active community of…
Brotherly Love, the fourth and most recent film by Jamal Hill, is contrived. It’s formulaic. It has a script that explains itself away, too-slick camerawork that never achieves a distinct style, and a really unfortunate montage set to an even…
Brotherly Love, the fourth and most recent film by Jamal Hill, is contrived. It’s formulaic. It has a script that explains itself away, too-slick camerawork that never achieves a distinct style, and a really unfortunate montage set to an even…
Via Reddit, it has come to my attention that a heroic individual going by the name of Kung Fu Shaman uploaded the entire 94 minutes of Trick Baby to YouTube last month. The quality ain’t great, but it is well…
From Episode 2 of ‘The Adventures of Jamel” Artist Jayson Musson generated considerable buzz back in January when he surprised fans with his first narrative video work since 2012. Titled The Adventures of Jamel, the new web series takes a…
A still from the ‘City of Shells’ teaser. The teaser trailer for City of Shells opens in a pretty atypical fashion. Rather than an introductory montage or a few choice lines of dialogue, it instead shows us nearly two minutes…
Dan Irving From the set of ‘Moths.’ Its major annual festival isn’t until October, but until then the Philadelphia Film Society can still provide with a monthly taste of local moviemaking. The Filmadelphia series has shown regularly at the Roxy…
The reenactors gather for a USO tribute at Philadelphia’s Fort Mifflin. Patrick Bresnan first met Robert “Bubba” Holland in 2008 at Zerns Farmers Market in Gilbertsville, Pa., where the latter was selling military memorabilia. Bresnan, a photographer and filmmaker whose…
