The latest short film by Quentin Lee, On Halloween, pays homage to spooky classics of the past with a few clever twists of its own. Lee has made a variety of features, ranging from the emotional drama Ethan Mao to the teen trauma of White Frog to the fizzy romance of The People I've Slept With. He's explored horror before in his graphic novel Campus Ghost Story and this year's The Unbidden, and On Halloween delves again into terror territory. Candy Cheung stars as a babysitter and Jerry Hernandez (Ethan Mao) is her boyfriend who visits her when she's 'on the job' caring for an infant, played by Quentin Lee's son Junyi Casper Lee. Something happens, and to say it's a bit unnerving is only...
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- 10/31/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Quentin Lee began his filmmaking career more than 20 years ago and it's still impossible to pigeonhole him. He's tackled a winning variety of human-sized stories in a variety of settings and an intriguing mix of genres, from the emotional angst of Ethan Mao to the intimate drama of White Frog to the romantic comedy of The People I've Slept With to the spooky fun of The Unbidden. Beyond his feature-length efforts, he's also made a slew of short movies and his upcoming next short sounds quite intriguing. Here is how Mr. Lee describes it: I wrote the short script On Halloween about a scary and unexpected night of a babysitter to star my friend Candy Cheung (a talented actress whom I want to work...
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- 8/17/2016
- Screen Anarchy
With Halloween approaching, it's a good season to think about psychological thrillers and dark secrets, which means it's the perfect time to consider backing The Unbidden, an Asian-American horror psycho thriller from director Quentin Lee. Lee has forged a path that is distinctly his own in the independent film world, most notably his angry debut, Ethan Mao, in contrast to his tart rom-com The People I've Slept With and the mournful, compassionate family drama White Frog. But somewhere in there he also wrote a terrific graphic novel, Campus Ghost Story -- read more about it here -- featuring a twisting and pleasantly mind-bending trio of haunted tales. Now he's applying his directorial touch to Narhee Ahn's original script, which sounds like it has some new twists of...
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- 10/27/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Quentin Lee is one of my favorite independent filmmakers, in part because he refuses to be tied down to any particular genre. He's made a potent family drama (Ethan Mao), a slick-but-sincere romantic comedy (The People I've Slept With), and a coming-of-age film (White Frog), as well as short films and documentaries. Now he's announced his next project, The English Major, described as a Canadian chiller. In brief, The English Major is "a more literary version of Scream set on a college campus ... a thriller about a sophomore becoming the prime suspect of campus serial murders reminiscent to those committed by a dead serial killer 13 years ago." Devery Jacobs (Rhymes for Young Ghouls) (pictured above) and newcomer Aidan Parker (right) have been cast in key roles....
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- 5/5/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Christopher Rice, Jane Espenson, David Gerrold, Phil Jimenez, and Wendy Pini lead a stellar lineup of guests and speakers to Bent-Con 2012, the pop-culture con for gay fans of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Comics, Games, Movies, and Books!
Now in its third year, Bent-Con promotes, encourages, celebrates and appreciates Lgbt and Lgbt-friendly contributions to the comic-book, gaming, Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror mediums of artists, writers, creators, publishers, directors, actors, producers and fans, be they works targeted directly to Lgbt audiences or the larger realm of underground and mainstream pop-culture as a whole.
(But it’s just easier to think of it like a Comic-Con, only gayer!)
Headlining guests include:
Christopher Rice: Already the author of four Nyt best-selling novels, Christopher has been an openly queer author since the publication of his first novel, A Density of Souls. Christopher will be reflecting on his already impressive career, as well as previewing his new novel,...
Now in its third year, Bent-Con promotes, encourages, celebrates and appreciates Lgbt and Lgbt-friendly contributions to the comic-book, gaming, Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror mediums of artists, writers, creators, publishers, directors, actors, producers and fans, be they works targeted directly to Lgbt audiences or the larger realm of underground and mainstream pop-culture as a whole.
(But it’s just easier to think of it like a Comic-Con, only gayer!)
Headlining guests include:
Christopher Rice: Already the author of four Nyt best-selling novels, Christopher has been an openly queer author since the publication of his first novel, A Density of Souls. Christopher will be reflecting on his already impressive career, as well as previewing his new novel,...
- 9/14/2012
- by The DoorQus Maximus
- doorQ.com
Netflix has revolutionized the home viewing market for movies with their instant streaming service. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about films of all genres worth holding a spot on your instant viewing queue. (Release dates are subject to change.)
Claustrophobia (2008)
Streaming Available: 10/15/2011
Synopsis: Love and corporate policy collide in director Ivy Ho’s engaging drama that follows the arc of a quiet affair between marketing employee Pearl and her soft-spoken, married-with-kids boss, Tom.
Average Netflix Rating: 3
Dream (2008)
Streaming Available: 10/15/2011
Synopsis: In this dark, surreal fantasy from Korean director Ki-duk Kim, a man named Jin (Jô Odagiri) discovers that he’s inextricably linked to a young woman (Na-yeong Lee) through his dreams, which she acts out to the letter while in a trance-like state. Their entwined lives become even more complicated when Jin’s dreams of an old lover lead the girl to reconnect with her own estranged ex.
Claustrophobia (2008)
Streaming Available: 10/15/2011
Synopsis: Love and corporate policy collide in director Ivy Ho’s engaging drama that follows the arc of a quiet affair between marketing employee Pearl and her soft-spoken, married-with-kids boss, Tom.
Average Netflix Rating: 3
Dream (2008)
Streaming Available: 10/15/2011
Synopsis: In this dark, surreal fantasy from Korean director Ki-duk Kim, a man named Jin (Jô Odagiri) discovers that he’s inextricably linked to a young woman (Na-yeong Lee) through his dreams, which she acts out to the letter while in a trance-like state. Their entwined lives become even more complicated when Jin’s dreams of an old lover lead the girl to reconnect with her own estranged ex.
- 10/1/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
[1] So, Jeremy Renner has finally given up one of the roughly five million roles he's been linked to since he became Hollywood's hottest rising star. The Playlist [2] reports that Sam Rockwell is currently in negotiations to replace Renner as the lead in Better Living Through Chemistry, an indie drama by Geoff Moore and David Posamentier. Rockwell would be playing an unhappily married pharmacist who enters an affair with a trophy wife customer (Jennifer Garner). As their prescription drug-fueled romance escalates, things spin out of control and the two begin plotting to kill her husband. Much as I like Renner, I'm equally happy to see the talented Rockwell in the part. Moore and Posamentier are building up quite the cast -- in addition to Rockwell and Garner, the film is also set to star Dame Judi Dench and Michelle Monaghan. After the jump, Justin Timberlake picks up a new gig, and...
- 7/19/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Indie Roundup is your weekly guide to what's new and upcoming in the world of independent cinema. Pictured above: The People I've Slept With.
Opening / Expanding. With distribution channels tightening and specialty distributors becoming ever more cautious, some filmmakers are assuming -- or resuming -- the role in order to find the widest audience possible.
At his site Film Hustler (an apt moniker), writer/director Quentin Lee details his "adventures in self distribution." (Full disclosure: I first met Quentin when his scrappy drama Ethan Mao debuted at AFI Fest, where I was employed at the time in the programming office. Last year I called it one of the top ten indie films of the decade.) His latest labor of love, a romantic comedy entitled The People I've Slept With, stars Karin Cheung, Archie Kao and Wilson Cruz, and is a lovely, very funny, and piercingly honest story about an...
Opening / Expanding. With distribution channels tightening and specialty distributors becoming ever more cautious, some filmmakers are assuming -- or resuming -- the role in order to find the widest audience possible.
At his site Film Hustler (an apt moniker), writer/director Quentin Lee details his "adventures in self distribution." (Full disclosure: I first met Quentin when his scrappy drama Ethan Mao debuted at AFI Fest, where I was employed at the time in the programming office. Last year I called it one of the top ten indie films of the decade.) His latest labor of love, a romantic comedy entitled The People I've Slept With, stars Karin Cheung, Archie Kao and Wilson Cruz, and is a lovely, very funny, and piercingly honest story about an...
- 8/13/2010
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
As the Academy Awards stretch on to the wee hours, here are three quick recommendations for graphic novels that are cinematic in nature yet are intrinsically literary and artistic, spilling over beyond the printed page.
Olympus. Not to minimize the fine script by Nathan Edmondson, but it's Christian Ward's sprawling, extravagant art work that caught my eye in the first issue. Now that the four-issue run has been collected together in trade form by Image, it's great fun to glory in the pictures. Yet a second reading also increases my appreciation for the tale itself: two brothers granted immortality by Zeus are still serving as his bounty hunters, hauling fugitives back to hell. A great balance between words and art, though I do tend to drift off while staring at those magnificent squiggly lines. The trade includes an introduction by Bryan J.L. Glass, a foreword by Edmondson, variant covers,...
Olympus. Not to minimize the fine script by Nathan Edmondson, but it's Christian Ward's sprawling, extravagant art work that caught my eye in the first issue. Now that the four-issue run has been collected together in trade form by Image, it's great fun to glory in the pictures. Yet a second reading also increases my appreciation for the tale itself: two brothers granted immortality by Zeus are still serving as his bounty hunters, hauling fugitives back to hell. A great balance between words and art, though I do tend to drift off while staring at those magnificent squiggly lines. The trade includes an introduction by Bryan J.L. Glass, a foreword by Edmondson, variant covers,...
- 3/8/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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