Author Archive: Ruben Rosario
is a graduate from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in Audio for Visual Media. He works as a freelance location sound mixer, boom operator, sound designer, and writer in his native Chicago. He's an avid collector of films, comics, and anime.
Bleak Night (Pasuggun)
Yoon Sung-Hyun’s Bleak Night (Pasuggun) is an incredible feature film debut and an intimate portrait of high school life. A father (Jo Sung-Ha) is overwhelmed with grief, after his son has recently committed suicide. As he’s looking through all of his things, he comes across a picture of his son, with two of his friends [...]
Small Apartments Screening in Chicago
Hey Everyone, The new Jonas Akerlund’s (Spun) new film will be having a screening on Thursday Feburary 7th at Chicago’s Landmark Century Center @ 7:30 P.M. Starring Matt Lucas (Little Britain), Billy Crystal (When Harry Met Sally), Juno Temple (The Dark Knight Rises), James Marsden (X-Men: The Last Stand), Peter Stormare (Fargo), Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction) [...]
Boogiepop and Others
As much as I love the Boogiepop Phantom TV series, I can honestly say that its narrative can feel a bit impenetrable. The live action film version, Boogiepop and Others, which is based off of the first light novel, makes for a much smoother transition and an easier effort, that could help people get into [...]
FilmCraft: Producing
While not every filmmaker has gone to film school and there are a few that actually disapprove, there are certain perks in going. One of these is having guest lectures of filmmakers and industry professionals that show up and share some of their experiences with you. Whether its an actual director explaining methods they’ve used [...]
Compliance
Craig Zobel’s Compliance is a difficult, complex and intriguing thriller that explores the unfortunate true events that happened in a McDonald’s in 2004. Shot in a fictional fast food chain, the film stars Ann Dowd as Sandra, a manager at the establishment that receives a phone call from a man (Pat Healy) that says he’s [...]
Tenchi Muyo: Movie Collection
After plowing through just about everything else Tenchi Muyo, the time has finally come to watch the films in the series. Following the Tenchi Universe TV series, director Hiroshi Negishi gets things started with 1996′s Tenchi Muyo In Love. The second film, The Daughter of Darkness, was released as part of a double feature, along [...]
Blood-C: The Complete Series
Uncompromising, subversive and incredibly violent are but a few of the many words that can describe Blood-C. Made in a collaboration between Production I.G. and CLAMP, this sort-of spin off of the original movie made in 2000, Blood: The Last Vampire, is one the most riveting horror anime TV shows of recent years and certainly [...]
Hard Romanticker
My introduction to the Yakuza in cinema was from the 1989 Ridley Scott film, Black Rain. The film, probably having been born from the obsession of everything Japanese in the 80′s, was my first interaction with this organized crime group and the legendary Ken Takakura. Years later, after coming into contact with Kinji Fukusaku’s filmography, [...]
Tai Chi Zero
Tai Chi Zero is a brilliant return to the director’s chair for Stephen Fung and one of the coolest kung fu movies to come out in a long time. A mash between comic book aesthetics, Steampunk elements and kung fu action, Tai Chi Zero oozes cool from its opening frames to its abrupt closing, that [...]
Tai Chi Zero Contest
Hey Everybody! We’ve scored two copies of the incredible Tai Chi Zero from Well Go Entertainment that we’re giving away! All you’ve gotta do is answer this question! “Director Stephen Fung hasn’t always directed kung-fu movies, he became an actor and got his start in the early 90′s of Hong Kong cinema. Name the Benny Chan 1999 [...]
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