FBC Films is thrilled to be off-Broadway as co-producer of this world premiere! Theater provocateur Brian Dykstra returns to 59E59 with an explosive new play about free speech, the dangers of polarization, and using art as a means for change. See the play March 9-April [...]
Project Funding Update: How We Picked What We Are Producing Next
May 17, 2017 – Posted in: Creative ProcessIn the last few months, three very different pitches came across the FBC Films radar looking for project funding – a horror movie, a dramatic film, a dramatic play. We’re participating in the play and will be sharing more about [...]
Zombies In Kindergarten, Korea, and Everyday Life: Kevin Wayne Williams, Train to Busan, The Returned and The Rezort
May 2, 2017 – Posted in: Film ReviewMy favorite zombie entertainment choices are still the George Romero classics, 28 Days Later more recently, and The Walking Dead for the small screen. But recently, I’ve come across additional fun entries in the zombie genre: Kevin Wayne Williams is [...]
Nature As Nemesis In The Movies: Life, Kong: Skull Island, The Bay, Nature’s Grave, And Dark Harbor
April 4, 2017 – Posted in: Film ReviewMy recent movie queue has filled up with films that feature nature as a key character in furthering the plot: The nature in Life is a speck of Mars dust gone amok – maybe it’s on a separate planet for [...]
Martin Scorsese directs Casino Ad with DiCaprio, Pitt, and De Niro
March 15, 2015 – Posted in: Creative ProcessA short film packed with star power is set to premiere later this year There are some things that people just don’t associate with short films, and casinos and big Hollywood names are just some of them. Many have come [...]
Memorable Minorities Episode 2 Is Up – Game of Thrones
May 8, 2014 – Posted in: Memorable MinoritiesBruce Faulk rewrote a scene from Game of Thrones where a Colorized version of Tywin and Jaime Lannister work to resurrect Khal because he was the only non-white major character. (By Colorized we mean Black and Asian folks playing the [...]
Memorable Minorities has launched!
April 14, 2014 – Posted in: Memorable MinoritiesMemorable Minorities has launched! Check out the first episode, "No" to Yesterday, in which our hosts in a futuristic society give us a tour of racial archetypes in movies from the past. "No" To Yesterday is written by Melody Cooper [...]
In The Theaters: Breathe In and Veronica Mars
April 6, 2014 – Posted in: Film ReviewI had read a good review of Breathe In, so was excited to see it come up on the NY Film Society calendar. Oh well. The acting is good, even if the plot unfolds like a story my 12-year old [...]
On My Netflix: Leave, A Late Quartet, and The Dinosaur Project
March 26, 2014 – Posted in: Film ReviewOn my Netflix viewing schedule were three films on death: Leave with Bryan Cranston and Ron Livingston is good marketing and good editing. It’s a thriller about a guy with recurring nightmares who meets a drifter who may be his [...]
On My Watchlist: Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain and NY WIFT Screening Series
March 19, 2014 – Posted in: Film ReviewOn my watchlist this week were two very different live events: comedy, documentary and The Battle Below screens at The Anthology Film Archives. Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain wasn’t the laugh-out-loud set I expect from Hart, one of my favorite [...]