'The Aviator' movie with Leonardo DiCaprio as bizarre billionaire Howard Hughes: Bloated biopic. 'The Aviator' movie review: What's not good for the Spruce Goose… Imagine Citizen Kane directed by the Steven Spielberg of The Color Purple, Schindler's List, Amistad, and Saving Private Ryan. The final result would look something like a Barry Levinson film – for instance, the superficial and phony Bugsy. Or, an even more appropriate example, the superficial, phony, and bloated The Aviator. Except, of course, that Levinson is not the man responsible for the 2004 mega-production starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the eccentric, billionaire ladies' man Howard Hughes. Strangely enough, that man is Martin Scorsese, the director of hard-hitting films such as Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and Gangs of New York. Scorsese, a fan of Old Hollywood, apparently wanted to have some fun with the reported $110 million budget (approx. $138 million in 2016) made available to him. The director no doubt had a ball while making The Aviator,...
- 3/20/2016
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The Virginity Hit
Stars: Matt Bennett, Zack Pearlman, Krysta Rodriguez, Jacob Davich, Justin Kline, Nicole Weaver | Written and Directed by Huck Botko & Andrew Gurland
“Matt is the last of his buddies to lose his virginity. With his stepbrother recording his every humiliating move and posting it online, Matt gets revenge on his cheating girlfriend, breaks the law, gets a sexy cyber offer too-good-to-be-true, meets the porn star of his dreams and becomes an Internet sensation in the process.”
Losing your virginity. The greatest stereotype in teen movie history. The mockumentary. A blight on cinematic storytelling. The Virginity Hit? A combination of the two. It works. Just.
From writer/directors Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland, the writers behind mockumentary The Last Exorcism, The Virginity Hit is yet another complete work of fiction shot as a “true life” tale with a cast of relative unknowns – the only recognisable face being that of lead Matt Bennett,...
Stars: Matt Bennett, Zack Pearlman, Krysta Rodriguez, Jacob Davich, Justin Kline, Nicole Weaver | Written and Directed by Huck Botko & Andrew Gurland
“Matt is the last of his buddies to lose his virginity. With his stepbrother recording his every humiliating move and posting it online, Matt gets revenge on his cheating girlfriend, breaks the law, gets a sexy cyber offer too-good-to-be-true, meets the porn star of his dreams and becomes an Internet sensation in the process.”
Losing your virginity. The greatest stereotype in teen movie history. The mockumentary. A blight on cinematic storytelling. The Virginity Hit? A combination of the two. It works. Just.
From writer/directors Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland, the writers behind mockumentary The Last Exorcism, The Virginity Hit is yet another complete work of fiction shot as a “true life” tale with a cast of relative unknowns – the only recognisable face being that of lead Matt Bennett,...
- 3/13/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
The Virginity Hit
Directed by: Huck Botko, Andrew Gurland
Cast: Matt Bennett, Zach Pearlman, Jacob Davich, Justin Kline, Nicole Weaver
Running Time: 1 hr 35 min
Rating: R
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Plot: Four friends decide to chronicle when each loses their virginity. The documentary-style film kicks into high gear when Matt (Bennett) can’t lose his virginity to save his life.
Who’S It For? Chronically immature men of below average intelligence.
Expectations: Zilch.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Matt Bennett as Matt: Bennett isn’t quirky and adorable like Michael Cera in Juno; He isn’t dark and cerebral like Jason Schwartzman in Rushmore; and he isn’t mouthwatering like Zac Efron in High School Musical. If you’re a young, unknown actor it’s important to fall into one of those three categories. No one wants to go on a journey with a totally nondescript teenager with no personality – it feels like purgatory.
Directed by: Huck Botko, Andrew Gurland
Cast: Matt Bennett, Zach Pearlman, Jacob Davich, Justin Kline, Nicole Weaver
Running Time: 1 hr 35 min
Rating: R
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Plot: Four friends decide to chronicle when each loses their virginity. The documentary-style film kicks into high gear when Matt (Bennett) can’t lose his virginity to save his life.
Who’S It For? Chronically immature men of below average intelligence.
Expectations: Zilch.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Matt Bennett as Matt: Bennett isn’t quirky and adorable like Michael Cera in Juno; He isn’t dark and cerebral like Jason Schwartzman in Rushmore; and he isn’t mouthwatering like Zac Efron in High School Musical. If you’re a young, unknown actor it’s important to fall into one of those three categories. No one wants to go on a journey with a totally nondescript teenager with no personality – it feels like purgatory.
- 9/24/2010
- by Morrow McLaughlin
- The Scorecard Review
Chicago – A great percentage of the population inevitably gets to the moment in their life when co-mingling becomes the next phase of interaction – the loss of virginity. Despite braggadocio to the contrary, for most people it is fraught with a bit of the undiscovered country. “The Virginity Hit” mines that territory with some cyber-age big brotherism thrown in.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Shot in an authentic looking documentary style, The Virginity Hit refers to a bong ritual that four close friends – all using there real names in the film – indulge in when they finally fulfill their first sexual conquest. Matt (Bennett) is the last one to achieve this end, and his adoptive brother Zack (Pearlman) decides to chronicle the big event for YouTube. Jacob (Davich) and Justin (Kline) go along for the “ride,” which involves Matt’s longtime girlfriend Nicole (Weaver). They have dated for two years and decide it is finally time.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Shot in an authentic looking documentary style, The Virginity Hit refers to a bong ritual that four close friends – all using there real names in the film – indulge in when they finally fulfill their first sexual conquest. Matt (Bennett) is the last one to achieve this end, and his adoptive brother Zack (Pearlman) decides to chronicle the big event for YouTube. Jacob (Davich) and Justin (Kline) go along for the “ride,” which involves Matt’s longtime girlfriend Nicole (Weaver). They have dated for two years and decide it is finally time.
- 9/17/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Monthly Movie Preview – September 2010
The summer movie season is now over. But don’t start saving all of your movie-going money for the winter award season just yet. There are plenty of films coming out this month that have some specialness to them, and are therefore more likely to be worthy of your movie-going attention.
On the mainstream circuit, we’ve got scheduled a full-length feature version of the Grindhouse trailer for Machete, a fourth Resident Evil film, a teen comedy starring breakout Emma Stone, a horror movie “from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan,” and more! As for the limited releases, September is giving us two directorial debuts – Casey Affleck’s I’m Still Here and Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Jack Goes Boating, along with other notable releases like Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go. Lest we not forget, that-movie-with-Van-Wilder-in-a-box, Buried, is also finally coming out at the end of the month.
The summer movie season is now over. But don’t start saving all of your movie-going money for the winter award season just yet. There are plenty of films coming out this month that have some specialness to them, and are therefore more likely to be worthy of your movie-going attention.
On the mainstream circuit, we’ve got scheduled a full-length feature version of the Grindhouse trailer for Machete, a fourth Resident Evil film, a teen comedy starring breakout Emma Stone, a horror movie “from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan,” and more! As for the limited releases, September is giving us two directorial debuts – Casey Affleck’s I’m Still Here and Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Jack Goes Boating, along with other notable releases like Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go. Lest we not forget, that-movie-with-Van-Wilder-in-a-box, Buried, is also finally coming out at the end of the month.
- 9/7/2010
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
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