Film
Feature
The City’s Film Festival
Whether or not CineVegas returns, this grassroots event and its inspired leader aim to make their mark—on the community
June 2nd, 2010
When something grows too fast for its own good, the results are never guaranteed. A native of Las Vegas with a background in the construction business, Milo Kostelecky knows this all too well. “As a city we’ve grown so fast that we forgot to really think about everybody that is living, working and building their families here,” he says. “Sometimes we get so carried away with expansion and forget what is at the core of it all—community.” Read more »
Movie Review
An Orthodox Jew Walks Into a Bar …
Holy Rollers tells the true story of what happens when religion meets drug smuggling
June 2nd, 2010
Despite the misleading title, Holy Rollers is not a film about an offbeat Protestant talking in tongues. It is, instead, a harrowing, fact-based footnote to the history of the illicit drug trade, involving a small group of Hasidic Jews who were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States in the late 1990s. Read more »
Film
Watch on the Wild Side
Two film festivals this week display the kinky, grindy, gory side of cinema
May 12th, 2010
CineVegas was great, but it never pushed the envelope far enough for my tastes,” filmmaker Chad Clinton Freeman says. “Now with it on hiatus there’s nothing much at all for fans of edgy cinema here in Vegas.” Read more »
