Month: April 2018

Interview with the Super Guys from ‘Super Troopers 2’

Jeff Mitchell

Your five favorite Vermont Highway Patrol officers are back!  Yes, Thorny (Jay Chandrasekhar), Mac (Steve Lemme), Foster (Paul Soter), Rabbit (Erik Stolhanske), and Farva (Kevin Heffernan) return to the big screen in “Super Troopers 2”, the sequel to the 2001 cult comedy hit. In this film, Governor Jessman (Lynda Carter) pulls the guys out of their “forced retirement” to help manage a border dispute between Vermont and the Province of Quebec, and they inevitably clash with three Canadian Mounties. The Troopers stopped in Phoenix for a “Super Troopers 2” screening,…

‘You Were Never Really Here’ is purposely brutal but effectively keeps you present

Jeff Mitchell

“You Were Never Really Here” – “McCleary said you were brutal.” – State Senator Albert Votto (Alex Manette) “I can be.” – Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) Joe might look like an average one, but he lives in extremes.  Now, he does not partake in extreme hobbies like sky diving, bungee jumping or riding motorcycles at high speeds but instead, he works irregular hours under extreme circumstances.  Ones that only very brave, very resolute or very damaged individuals could pursue. In Joe’s case, he is all three. Writer/director Lynne Ramsay and Phoenix…

April 12 – 15: Encore screenings of several Phoenix Film Festival competition films!

Jeff Mitchell

Each Phoenix Film Festival competition film plays three times during April 6 – 8, but if you had scheduling conflicts – via your kids’ soccer practice, another movie, The Masters, Wrestlemania, or just slumbered the weekend away – don’t worry.  The Phoenix Film Festival is showing encore screenings of several competition films from Thursday, April 12 through Sunday, April 15 at Harkins Scottsdale 101! Other than the festival circuit, you probably cannot see these films anywhere, so Art House Film Wire recommends (if you have the time and means), take…