Bleed for This, a film documenting local boxer Vinny Paz’s recovery from a neck injury, premieres next month. In advance of the premiere, Motif contributor and friend of the Pazman, Mike Messier, interviewed him. Mike Messier: A Vinny Paz feature film has been speculated about for years. The general movie goer does not realize the money, […]
Michael is a troubled artist whose fragile psyche begins to crack after a chance run-in with the priest who abused him as a child. What follows is a walking dream state in which Michael attempts to rationalize and cope with his trauma, his emotions and his actions. Skip Shea’s Trinity is a powerful drama with […]
A socially awkward math savant accountant specializes in sorting out the finances of the world’s most dangerous criminal empires. Unfortunately, when he figures out the source of a new client’s financial irregularities, a string of people connected to the company begin to die. It is now up to the accountant, Chris Wolf, to protect himself […]
Paz has rightfully become the stuff of Rhode Island legend, a topic of constant local – and national – discussion in the ’80s and ’90s. Soon, that legend will be reborn on the big screen. Bleed For This, a biopic about RI native Vincenzo Pazienza, aka The Pazmanian Devil, will be released on 3,000 movie […]
SEED, the Untold Story would be worth watching if only for the lush beauty of its visuals; the opening sequence is pure art, glowing and smoldering with fecund life. Jewel-like ovules and whirligigs pour into the viewer’s eyes in a hypnotizing swirl. But behind the colors lurks a dark cloud, and this story, like the germ […]
In the late 1990s, JT LeRoy was a force of nature in the book world — the street-hustling son of a truck stop prostitute came out of unknown obscurity and quickly became a bestseller. Along the way, LeRoy became the darling of the alternative music, film and art scenes, all seemingly without actually existing. For […]
Jake and Tony are a pair of unlikely friends who become best friends when Jake’s grandfather passes away and his family moves into the grandfather’s Brooklyn apartment. As the two form a close relationship, their families become more and more split as Tony’s mother runs the dress shop on the first floor of Jake’s family’s […]
Manhattan Short does not consider itself a travelling film festival per se. It screens simultaneously across the globe from September 23 to October 2, coining the phrase, “one world – one week – one festival.” Each year, audiences around the world view the same program of 10 films and vote for their favorite. The results are […]
William Fichtner is a prolific character actor with a long and prominent body of work. If you don’t recognize the name, you definitely would recognize his distinctive face — stretched and doe-eyed — as that of the obsessive detective in Prison Break, or perhaps the leader of the free world (by default, since everyone else […]
From the UCLA classroom where the Internet first relayed to life as the Arpanet to the future possibilities of our worldwide connection, Werner Herzog’s newest film explores the multi-faceted concept that is our “connected world.” Not just the origins of the Internet are discussed, but also its multitude of uses, its dangerous side and even […]