Matthew Freidell breaks down the Tarot in this clever short “After the Fall”

I have always been fascinated by the tarot! I love seeing how they can be interpreted and by whom. I’ve always wondered if I was worthy. I also have wondered if I had the balls. The future is not for the faint of heart…Ronald Reagan, not me. When I first watched this short, I had

Paint It Black with Kevin Bacon in Stir of Echoes

“You’re awake now, Daddy.” Tom and Maggie have just finished moving their growing family into a new house in a working class Chicago neighborhood.  Musician-turned-telephone lineman, Tom, asks his sister-in-law Lisa to hypnotize him at a block party.  A little drunk and more than a little puffed up, Tom thinks nothing will happen.  After all,

Listen to Stephen Brodsky’s EP – Hit or Mystery

If one things for sure, it’s that this is definitely not what Cave In sounds like. The Boston post-hardcore band’s front man, Stephan Brodsky has a new EP coming out on April 16th on Little Black Cloud, and it is killer good. Hit or Mystery has this psychedelic-folk atmosphere, but it’s not the kind that comes

Is Tom Cruise a reach as Jack Reacher?

Fans of the Jack Reacher series by novelist Lee Child were cheering and jeering last night at a screening of the new Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise.  Reacher, an ex-Army military police officer, is a character completely unlike Cruise in almost every way – at least, physically.  Standing at 6′ 5″ and weighing in around 210 – 250 lbs

Misdirection is Key for Director Rodrigo Cortés’ Latest Film: Red Lights

“There are two kinds of people out there with a special gift. The ones who think they really have some kind of power. And the other guys, who think that we can’t figure them out. They’re both wrong” -Dr. Margaret Matheson (played by Sigourney Weaver), Red Lights I’m going to do something I rarely do