Tribeca Review: The Machine
Retro-style futures sometimes look more futuristic than modern approximations of what the future will be like, and there’s a definite retro aesthetic at ...
Tag: retro
Help fund the documentary Chuck Norris vs Communism
You may remember last year that we shared a promotional trailer for Chuck Norris vs. Communism, a documentary on how a woman named ...
NYC: Old School Kung Fu Fest, April 19-21
If you live in New York and are a fan of old school kung fu movies, you need to head to Anthology Film ...
Details on Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom was our pick for the best comedy of 2012. Anderson’s latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is another period ...
Reviews
Review: Blancanieves
Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves will inevitably draw comparisons to Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist since both are silent films. (Blancanieves was Spain’s official Oscar entry ...
NYC: See Miami Connection for free on April 12th
Rediscovered by Drafthouse Films, Miami Connection is the kitschy action gift that keeps on giving: the best VHS action movie you never rented ...
Features
Flixclusive Interview: The makers of Rewind This!
With the documentary Rewind This!, director Josh Johnson has created a fine overview of the VHS era, covering the many different facets of ...
Reviews
Review: Rewind This!
Even though there are some holdout shops in certain parts of the country — notably cities with major movie scenes — the video ...
Flix for Short: Rediscovered Empire Strikes Back doc
Long thought lost, this making-of documentary on The Empire Strikes Back is the bee’s knees. It features lots of never-before-seen footage of the ...
Iron Man editor develops iPad editing app
Dan Lebental, editor of the Iron Man series, apparently misses touching real film while he is editing. So he has been developing an ...
V/H/S coming to VHS in USA
Back in December it was announced that one of the best horror films of last year, V/H/S, was going to get a limited edition ...
Features
The Cult Club: Six-String Samurai (1998)
[The Cult Club is where Flixist’s writers expound the virtues of their favourite underground classics, spanning all nations and genres. It is a ...