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Blog Entries by Dan Persons from 06/2011

Mighty Movie Podcast: Mali Elfman on Do Not Disturb

| Posted 06.03.2011

Shot on the proverbial shoestring over seven quick production days, Do Not Disturb is a curious little anthology film with some interesting names attached.

Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: X-Men: First Class

| Posted 06.06.2011

X-Men: First Class is the latest installment of the Marvel film franchise to use comic book action to address some potent social issues.

Mighty Movie Podcast: Alberta Cross on David O. Russell

| Posted 06.08.2011

When we heard that the man responsible for The Fighter and Three Kings was involved in a batch of new music videos, it would be an understatement to say our interest was piqued.

Mighty Movie Podcast: Djo Tunda Wa Munga on Viva Riva!

| Posted 06.10.2011

Viva Riva! is the first film out of the Congo to get U.S. distribution, and director Djo Tunda Wa Munga has made it a hell of an introduction.

Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Super 8

| Posted 06.13.2011

J.J. Abrams, the man who set the deliriously enigmatic pace for Lost in that show's pilot and upended Star Trek by blowing up Vulcan (we still haven't...

Cinefantastique Spotlight: Green Lantern

| Posted 06.20.2011

The new film is Hollywood's latest attempt to take the comic book movie back to its purer roots. Does Green Lantern earn its stripes as simple summer fun?

Mighty Movie Podcast: Monte Hellman on Road to Nowhere

| Posted 06.20.2011

As politics too often demonstrates, the line between truth and fiction is a fragile one. In Road to Nowhere, a director (Tygh Runyan) casts an unknown...

Mighty Movie Podcast: Robert Persons on General Orders No. 9

| Posted 06.26.2011

A meditation on small-town South -- Georgia in specific -- its connection to the natural world and its death at the hands of growing populations and commercial interests, the film is quiet, beautiful, and strangely moving.

Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Cars 2

| Posted 06.28.2011

Join Cinefantastique Online's Steve Biodrowski, Lawrence French, and Dan Persons as they examine Cars 2.

Guillaume Dolmans Goes on "The Date"

| Posted 06.30.2011

We got a chance to talk to Dolmans about his rather unusual transition to the acting world and his experience shooting The Date.