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  This past Saturday EMP in partnership with SIFF held their 7th annual sci-fi shorts festival, Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival. As they put it, "The festival brings together industry professionals in filmmaking and the genres of science fiction and fantasy to encourage and support new, creative additions to science fiction and fantasy cinema arts." There were 20 animated and live-action short films in all. The quality of these independent short films was really great... Read Full Story

  Cinema Threesome (formerly Cinema Sluts) has changed their name, but the content just gets better and better. As of now they have four episodes to listen to, all great stuff! If you are even remotely a film fan you owe it to yourself and some cool guys to get those earbuds on and listen to the wisdom and entertainment held within ! Here are the latest four: 1 -Episode #1: DRUGS - TRAINSPOTTING, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas & Human Traffic Podcast Powered By Podbean 2... Read Full Story

Today the world's first zombie passed away at the age of 75. After staring in George Romero’s classic "Night of the Living Dead" he went on to act as more zombies in low budget films. He frequented horror conventions like Screamfest, where I had the good fortune to meet him for the photo opportunity to the left. He was a very cool guy. Ultimately, he was felled by cancer. Read Full Story

Norwegian Ninja(2010)   Bitter Balcony reported about “Norwegian Ninja” a few months back and after all that time we’ve finally been able to sit and enjoy it’s B-movie antics… or did we? The movie’s synopsis is as simple as it gets; the true story of how Commander Arne Treholt and his Ninja Force saved Norway during the Cold War. Of course by “true story” they mean a ridiculously bad ninja movie in the style of late ‘70s camp. There are things like the secret island they live on being... Read Full Story

Haywire(2012)   Steven Soderberg has made movies from artsy explorations of characters to Science Fiction films with a romantic and heavily ambient tone to a Hollywood film about the war on drugs. These are but a few themes he’s explored. He’s never attempted to shoot a straight up action film, which is what he set out to do with “Haywire”. “Haywire” begins with a fight a diner followed by an interesting car jacking. From there we begin to learn how Mallory (Gina Carano) got to that... Read Full Story

Today is the day that major websites have decided to show the world what it would be like if the US government passed one of the two proposed bills pretending to protect intellectual properies while in fact giving them free reign to shut down any website they want for any reason. Read Full Story

2011 in review   I commence our late recap in film by thanking all the studios out there for releasing EVERY movie produced in 2011 within the span of ten days! The “let me save my dysfunctional family by building a petting zoo” movie, the “Swedish Punky Brewster” movie, the “Tom Cruise shrugs off his height shortcomings by climbing skyscrapers” movie, the “charming little artsy black and white French movie that will win all our callous American hearts” movie, the “interspecies love... Read Full Story

  Bitter Balcony loves to support filmmakers, film fans and all around swell people. Today we introduce you to Cinema Sluts a new podcast by two of our friends Matt Ellison and Chris Fred. I know, I know. We were hoping for some film themed photo shoot, too, but this podcast is totally worth a listen or three. Chris and Matt are both thespians and avid movie watchers. Armed with some great film knowledge they aim to entertain and enlighten. Thankfully they accomplish both! Take a... Read Full Story

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo(2011)   After some of the best movie posters, teaser trailer and various promotional materials we’ve seen for a movie, “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” has finally arrived. When it was announced there was much trepidation here at Bitter Balcony, because we were sure that no one could top the work that Noomi Rapace did as Lisbeth Salander. While we weren’t right, we weren’t right either, but it’s not for the reason we thought. Naturally, comparisons between the... Read Full Story

Immortals(2012)   The “Immortals” dies an early death by way of being forgotten. Tarsem Singh showed that he was willing to be, and capable of being, really creative and having a very singular aesthetic. The scenes from “The Cell” that took place in the serial killer’s head were awesome to watch and the entirety of “The Fall” was a real treat to watch. In “The Fall” he showed that he can weave his style into a well-told tale and each was complimented by the other. Sadly, this is not the... Read Full Story