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Title: Sunken City Director: Ryan McLaughlin Starring: Hamilton von Watts, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Vinicius Machado, Ivo Nandi, Cyrus Farmer, Richard Tyson, Spencer Garrett, Maz Jobrani, Evelina Turen, Alyssa Julya Smith One of the true delights of the Julien Dubuque International Film Festival, where it recently picked up a prize for Best Use of Music, “Sunken City” is an almost perfectly modulated low-budget indie with a keen sense of place. Fans of “The Big Lebowski” will appreciate and find reward in this loose-limbed crime comedy, which locates its sweet spot in stoner humor and dry send-up of noir conventions, as well as a strong lead performance. “Sunken City” unfolds in the Los Angeles [ Read More ]

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‘Kinky (sex) film festival’ looking for entries: CineKink 2014 (image: ‘Strange Live Acts’) CineKink, which bills itself as "the kinky film festival," is looking for "films and videos, of any length and genre, that explore and celebrate a wide diversity of sexuality." In the last decade, CineKink has screened an eclectic mix of documentaries and narrative movies, camp comedies, and experimental efforts, ranging from the "mildly spicy" to no-holds-barred sexually explicit fare. According to its press release, CineKink is "dedicated to the recognition and encouragement of sex-positive and kink-friendly depictions in film and television." Possible topics include "Bdsm, leather and fetish, swinging, non-monogamy and polyamory, roleplay and gender bending, sex work, and sex geekery." At CineKink 2013, entries included Cheryl Dunye’s romantic sex comedy Mommy Is Coming; Mark Mori’s documentary Bettie Page Reveals All; Hunter Stone’s short Getting Off, in which a dying man "struggles valiantly to go out...

A look at what's new on DVD today:

"127 Hours" (2010)

Directed by Danny Boyle

Released by Fox Home Entertainment

With a fast-forward button at the ready on home devices, it's high time more people see James Franco's Spirit Award-winning performance as real-life adventurer Aron Ralston, who gets his arm trapped under a boulder in Utah's Bluejohn Canyon and struggles to survive and free himself in Danny Boyle's life-affirming followup to "Slumdog Millionaire." (Matt Singer's interview with James Franco and Danny Boyle is here.)

"420 High Desert Way" (2011)

Directed by Tom Breedlove

Released by Maverick Entertainment Group

Dealing with a different drug than the one suggested by the title, this procedural drama follows a young undercover cop who must refine his extreme sports skills as he infiltrates a drug cartel and must bust them before they learn his true identity.

"Bambi" (1942)

Directed by James Algar and Samuel Armstrong

Released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment...

Eight actors have stepped up to the plate for Comedy Central's baseball-set pilot Three Strikes, from Jon Stewart's Busboy Prods.

Hamilton Von Watts, Frank John Hughes, Adrian Martinez, Reno Wilson, Phil Hendrie, Toby Huss, Nathanial Moon and Ken Jeong comprise the ensemble cast of Three Strikes, a character-based comedy set in the world of minor league baseball. Their characters are part of the team at the center of the half-hour project.

Three Strikes is based on an idea from Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck (Fox's King of the Hill, NBC's Frasier). The pilot will be executive produced by Stewart, Ben Karlin, Gregory and Huyck. Jim Sharp is the executive in charge of production.

Von Watts' credits include WB Network's Charmed and Grosse Pointe, CBS' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and NBC's Just Shoot Me! He is repped by Lisa DiSante-Frank at DiSante Frank & Co.