On Demand Weekly provides new movie reviews of hot movies on demand and from the POV of watching from the comfort of your home. Today’s review: THE OTHER F WORD (Oscilloscope Labs).

THE OTHER F WORD

By Chris Claro

Punk rock has always been about rebellion: sticking it to the man, telling society to go to hell, making sure that people just don’t understand, man! At its core, punk is anti-authoritarian, anti-government, anti-establishment, not the environs for such bourgeois pursuits as parenthood – “Father knows best? Father knows nothing!”

But even punks grow up, despite their attempts to the contrary. And no matter how hard they may have moshed or how badly they courted attention with choices in hair, ink, and accessories, punks age just as the rest of us do, and with age often comes the desire for something more fulfilling, something more than where to go eat after a gig. That something, as many of us squares know, is fatherhood.

THE OTHER F WORD, produced by Morgan Spurlock and directed by Andrea Blaugrund Nevins, is a rollicking doc about what happens when punks become parents. Though it sounds like the idea for a bad pilot starring Michael Rappaport and Jason Lee, THE OTHER F WORD is funny, insightful, and even touching, as it plays up the ironic dichotomy of post-40 punkers who need to maintain their bad-ass stage cred even though most of them are toast-making homebodies who find it increasingly difficult to go on tour.

Blaugrund traces the rise of punk in southern California, through the recollections of everyone from Flea to Art Alexakis to Mark Hoppus.

With its violent imagery and atonal collision of sounds and bodies, the angst and anger of the genre is palpable and it’s easy to see what drew alienated males with father issues to the movement. Virtually everyone of Blaugrund’s subjects talks of having some level of conflict with the male authority figures in his life and the reminiscences of the musicians gives the film a throbbing through line that emphasizes the desire they have to avoid their repeating fathers’ mistakes.

The threatening mien of most of the musicians – with every inch of many of them tatted and mohawked and pierced – is offset by the gentle, caring way they deal with their children. Jim Lindberg, lead singer of Pennywise, is shown patiently trying to explain to his three daughters why he can’t take more than one Barbie doll on tour with him – right before he packs his nose-hair clippers and Just for Men. Seeing Alexakis go from stage diving to chanting “The Wheels on the Bus” as he drives his daughter to school or watching Rancid’s Lars Fredriksen clear a playground while he pushes his son on a swing humanize the musicians and make THE OTHER F WORD effective and entertaining.

A fast-paced look at how outsiders try to maintain their status even as they adopt mainstream values,

THE OTHER F WORD is a both a thrashing good time

and a surprisingly astute study of youth gone right.

Crank it up to 11 and check it out.

- Chris Claro

Chris Claro is a contributing writer to On Demand Weekly. He is a former Director of Promotion for Sundance Channel and now works as a writer, producer, and media educator. He is a regular contributor to dvdverdict.com and contributor to the Eyes and Ears section of huffingtonpost.com

THE OTHER F WORD (Oscilloscope Labs) is now on demand.

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On Demand Weekly provides new movie reviews of movies on demand from the POV of watching from the comfort of your home. Today’s review: FOUR LOVERS (Oscilloscope Labs).

FOUR LOVERS
By Amy Slotnick

Ever wish there was a way to inject a solid, long-term relationship with the sexual hunger of a new lover? Or fantasize about having a passionate affair without sneaking around and potentially betraying the trust of your spouse? That is exactly what two couples explore in FOUR LOVERS, a couple-swap French film now available On Demand before a theatrical run.

It initially seems to happen so easily. Work colleagues, Rachel and Vincent, go out along with their spouses, Franck and Teri. The two couples become fast friends and a sexual energy soon emerges. There is little attempt to hide it, except from their kids, and soon each couple has swapped partners, regularly meeting for dinner parties, weekends away and private rendezvous’ for lovemaking.

While having a new lover intoxicates each character, they also each maintain an equal commitment to their marriages. Surprisingly, the partner swap also seems to renew the passion of the married relationships.

Although at first it might seem ideal, complications eventually arise. As the film progresses, the sex scenes become increasingly more erotic and explicit, perhaps due to the larger role the lover is takes on in each character’s life. When one of the children discovers the truth, the anger and jealousy become too hard to suppress.

Though an engaging concept with nuanced performances, the film is dominated by sex scenes which become uncomfortable after a while. The image of Vincent’s face ramming up Teri’s buttocks won’t fade soon enough from memory.

Amy Slotnick

Amy Slotnick is a contributor to On Demand Weekly. She works as an independent producer and freelance consultant to film financing start-ups. Previously she was a Senior VP of Production at Miramax Films.

FOUR LOVERS (Oscilloscope Labs) is now on demand before in theaters.

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Media savant T Tara Turk goes deep inside cable TV to reveal Video On Demand's Hidden Gems so even the busiest of our readers can get the most out of On Demand TV. Tell Tara what VOD shows you think deserves her attention.

Black History Month - On Demand

By T. Tara Turk

I generally celebrate being black 365 days a year since, well, I’m black and that’s who I am. But having a designated (albeit short) month to celebrate usually calls for the customary cards, parades, and customized television program on some channels. The TV part is my favorite because then we get to peruse some classics that usually go unnoticed in mainstream “Best Of” lists since some tend not to think outside of the regular classics box.

If you’re in the mood to add some culture to your February or you just want to take a dance down memory lane, I found a few titles available on Black Cinema on Xfinity On Demand this month that may help.

For the Beginner:

ROOTS: THE MINI SERIES - One of the most popular mini series of all time. Pre-dvr/vhs/on demand days, folks would actually plan their TV week with TV Guide and this was one series that scored high ratings across the board in the 1970s. And, since we’re spanning the first few hundred years of slavery, every black actor in Hollywood was able to get a job. -

RAY - Jamie Foxx appears to have an out of body experience playing famed musician Ray Charles. This performance was so good, Jamie continued to channel Ray in a Kanye West song. But seriously, not many people know the story of Ray Charles but most seem to benefit from it.

THE COLOR PURPLE - I don’t have a group of friends in my life that doesn’t, in some way, quote from this movie. While Alice Walker’s book about a black girl in the south who grows up beyond expectations touched so many lives, the movie, directed by Steven Spielberg, mad a lasting impression with its stellar cast which includes Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery and the late great Adolph Caeser.

MALCOLM X - For a long time, Malcolm was and has been misunderstood as a minister of hate but thanks to Spike Lee’s epic production and the genius of Denzel Washington, this should shed some light on the life of Malcolm while being hugely entertaining to watch.

DREAMGIRLS - Who doesn’t love a little retro glamour, a little heartbreak and some amazing singing from the likes of Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson, Jamie Foxx,Anoki Rose and - GASP - Eddie Murphy! The long running Broadway story rumored to based on Diana Ross and the Supremes, finally made a huge dent at the box office and came away with a few Grammy nods.

For the Experienced:

THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND - Before this movie, you had to be an avid news watcher or historian to know who Idi Amin was. His atrocities towards the country of Uganda are played out in this remarkable movie with the performances of James MacAvoy and Forest Whitaker. MacAvoy plays Amin’s (Whitaker) personal physician and recounts the horrors he witnesses during Amin’s reign.

BIGGIE & TUPAC - Nick Broomfield’s doucumentaries always go a step further as he’s able to use his foreigner status as somewhat of a calling card to step into the stories he is interested in. In this documentary, Broomfield investigates two of the most impressionable murders in the hip hop community, that of Notorious BIG and Tupac Shakur, and how they related to one another.

THE LOVING STORY - Hard to believe that in 1958 it was illegal for a white person to marry a black person but it’s indeed true and this documentary captures the life of the couple who dared to break the law to marry each other. Richard Loving, white, and his wife, Mildred, black, had their marriage decreed illegal by the state of Virginia but they fought back.

For the Aficionado:

THE BLACKPOWER MIXTAPE - Comprised of a ridiculously amazing soundtrack (courtesy of Questlove from The Roots) and lost footage from a 1970s Swedish news expedition, this documentary captures the raw and heightened emotion of what it meant to be black and culturally conscious after the Vietnam War.

BE INSPIRED: THE LIFE OF HEAVY D - Many hip hop fans are still in shock about the recent loss of one the most positive, prolific and talented rappers we ever came across. It was rare to find a rapper who could make us happily dance, sing, rap and learn at the same time.

A SOLDIER’S STORY - Long before Redtails and the like, Denzel Washington, late greats Howard Rollins and Adolph Caseser, Robert Townsend, Pattie Labelle and a young David Alan Grier. The story is of an Army investigator sent to look into the murder of a black sargent at the end of World War II. Originally a play, this 1984 film is absolutely one of the high standards of black historical military story telling.

GET ON THE BUS - The Million Man March seems ages ago but I remember it being a BIG deal not just with political-minded black men but black men of all backgrounds. Spike Lee takes this monumental national event and focuses on one group of black men, all vastly different, on one bus as they head to the March. Emotional, funny and entertaining, this is probably one of the best ways to view a situation some will never encounter.

This list is a small sample in a sea of amazing picks to choose from. One of the bonuses of modern progress is that we are seeing a great many types of shows and films from so many different cultures on a day to day basis that the need for special programming, while still important, is becoming less vital or critical.

Additional Black History programming can be found on the Diversity On Demand Initiative with Facebook (www.facebook.com/DiversityOnDemand). "Like" the page for programming updates and links to trailers and be alerted to various entertainment and blogger giveaways during the promotion.

This will be an online destination where anyone interested in multicultural shows and movies can join to engage with others in the community, and learn more about what Diversity on Demand has to offer. If you’ve been dying to catch up on Braxton Family Values, some docs about the Tuskegee Airman or Lena Baker and a few features, this is your chance.

You officially have several more chances to up your cool factor during the month of February. You’re welcome.

- T. Tara Turk


T. Tara Turk is a novelist/playwright/screenwriter, living in LA with her boyfriend and dog - all three successful TV addicts. You can find her at www.ttaraturk.com or follow her on Twitter @ttaraturk.

On Demand Weekly provides new movie reviews of hot movies on demand and from the POV of watching from the comfort of your home. Today’s review: AFTER FALL, WINTER (FilmBuff).

AFTER FALL, WINTER

By Chris Claro

Early in Eric Schaeffer’s overlong and icky AFTER FALL, WINTER, a French woman reminds Schaeffer’s character that “there’s a big difference between you thinking your life is interesting and anyone else thinking it is.” It’s interesting that the guy who wrote that line is as unaware of its stinging truth as Schaeffer is.

A filmmaker who has made a cottage industry of making films that explore his self-perceived interestingness, Schaeffer has spent almost twenty years offering variations on his neurotic, self-obsessed, insufferably narcissistic persona, beginning with the twee MY LIFE’S IN TURNAROUND, to the precious IF LUCY FELL, through the indulgent THEY’RE OUT OF THE BUSINESS. Now it seems that he has topped himself with the truly offensive AFTER FALL, WINTER.

Set in Paris, AFTER FALL, WINTER features the return of Schaffer’s TURNAROUND protagonist, Michael, a one-and-done novelist half a million dollars in debt. Convinced by a friend to shake his depression in Paris, Michael heads to the city of lights where he meets Sophie, a woman who lives a bifurcated life as both a dominatrix and a glorified candy striper. As their relationship progresses, secrets are revealed, lives are changed, and much BDSM is displayed.

Schaeffer’s Michael is a deplorable character, equal parts self-pity and narcissism, and his 130-minute odyssey, which leads to a grossly contrived ending straight out of ROMEO AND JULIET, is crass and unpleasant. Schaeffer wants his audience to think that he’s being “daring” by depicting aberrant sexual practices and full frontal male nudity as signifiers, but what he’s really doing is working out his own neuroses under cover of fiction. The creepy, voyeuristic vibe of AFTER FALL, WINTER is one of its least savory characteristics and keeps the audience from truly connecting with its characters.

A series of prolonged conversations punctuated by “shocking” scenes of sex and bondage, AFTER FALL, WINTER is less a movie than an indulgence, something that is true of almost all of Schaeffer’s work. As writer, director, producer, and star, Schaeffer clearly does not play well with others, eschewing collaboration in favor of shining the light on himself and his character, such as it is. As a result, enduring a Schaeffer film is akin to one of the great guilty pleasures for New Yorkers of the 1970s: watching unctuous, oily talk show host Stanley Siegel engage in therapy sessions on the air. (If you’re outside the tri-state area and haven’t experienced it, do a youtube search for Siegel. You won’t be sorry.)

For a writer as supposedly prolific as Schaeffer – he claims to have written twenty screenplays over the nine years he drove a cab – it is amazing that he returns to the same source material again and again and again. I would think that a guy with his ability might have a heist movie – maybe SCHAEFFER’S ELEVEN – or an Oscar-bait wartime drama – SCHAEFFER’S LIST – sitting in a drawer somewhere. Instead, the filmmaker returns to the same well of preening self-love, alternately alienating his audience and shamelessly manipulating it: the purest character in the film is a thirteen-year-old leukemia patient whose wisdom in the face of death drives the film’s maudlin and vile third act.

From a production standpoint, Schaeffer deserves notice for getting his films financed, and as a director, he knows where to put the camera and place the actors – usually slightly behind him as he maintains his position in the center of the frame. But, like a lot of his earlier works, AFTER FALL, WINTER squanders whatever goodwill an audience brings to it due to its producer/director/writer/star’s unrelenting egomania. AFTER FALL, WINTER is only for Schaeffer completIsts – both of them, including Schaeffer himself – or anyone who wants to see how one of the world’s most beautiful cities can be besmirched by a third-rate Woody Allen. It’s a loathsome work from a filmmaker whose disdain for his audience is palpable.

- Chris Claro

Chris Claro is a contributing writer to On Demand Weekly. He is a former Director of Promotion for Sundance Channel and now works as a writer, producer, and media educator. He is a regular contributor to dvdverdict.com and contributor to the Eyes and Ears section of huffingtonpost.com

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Tweet or Facebook us whether you like or are creeped out by Clive Owen's Creepy Movie Poster For INTRUDERS (@Millennium_Ent)...

If you haven't heard by now, Tim and Eric are taking their act from the small screen to the silver screen with their movie TIM AND ERIC'S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE (Magnolia). It is available in theaters on March 2nd, but is available on demand now.

In an effort to make as many people know, Tim and Eric are asking people to take the following pledge.

They're asking people to:

- see the film with a family member or friend.

- in a theater within 50 miles of their location, or on demand if can't be seen in theater (BTW - it's not in theaters until 3/2/12, but on demand now!).

- tell a minimum of four people about B$M.

- not to Bit Torrent B$M

- and don't see THE LORAX.

Kudos to Tim and Eric for a clever way to spread word about the film and has resulted in positives pledges from some notable actors & personalities. Tweet or Facebook us which you like the most.

Ben Stiller

Paul Rudd

Natasha Leggero

Elijah Wood

Andy Samberg and Rashida Jones

Al Yankovic

The Movies On Demand MOD February Preview of The Indies has arrived. Highlights of the new release schedule for January, 2012 include MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE, FIREFLIES IN THE GARDEN, THE WAY, TAKE SHELTER and more. People who missed these highly-regarded titles can catch them on demand in February.

Almost every indie new release listed comes to Movies On Demand either before or the same day as DVD.

Enjoy On Demanding this month!


Indie Titles:

THE GUARD – Premieres January 3
R, Comedy
Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle

Same day as DVD


ANONYMOUS – Premieres February 7
PG-13, Thriller
Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave

Same day as DVD


FIREFLIES IN THE GARDEN – Premieres February 7
R, Drama
Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe

Same day as DVD


THE WAY – Premieres February 9
PG-13, Comedy
Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez

Pre-DVD


TAKE SHELTER – Premieres February 14
R, Drama
Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain

Same day as DVD


BRAKE – Premieres February 17
TV-MA, Action
Stephen Dorff, Chyler Leigh

Before theatrical release

DETACHMENT – Premieres February 21
TV-MA, Drama
Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden

Before theatrical release


MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE – Premieres February 21
R, Thriller
Elizabeth Olsen, John Hawkes

Same day as DVD, Weeks before Netflix & Redbox


THE SON OF NO ONE – Premieres February 21
R, Thriller
Channing Tatum, Al Pacino

Same day as DVD


GOON – Premieres February 24
R, Comedy
Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel

Before theatrical release


PHANTOM OF THE OPERA LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL – Premieres February 7
Same day as DVD
NR, Musical

*Title dates and availability may vary by system. HD not available in all systems.

DONNER PASS tells the story of settlers in 1846 that became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and had to resort to cannibalism to survive. Some 150 years later, a group of teens on a snowboard trip discover that the curse of the Donner Party still haunts those mountains when members of their group start turning up not only dead, but half-eaten. Nothing - and no one - is what it seems and history doesn't always stay in the past.
 

1. Based on a true story – In the winter of 1846, George Donner and his Donner Party were stranded in the snow and were forced to resort to cannibalism to survive.

2. The film is directed by Elise Robertson; it is her first feature and she is on a small list of female horror film directors.

3. Horror icon John Kassir, best known for voicing the Crypt Keeper on Tales from the Crypt, has a role in the film.
 

- Britt Bensen

New Movies On Demand - January Preview
Movies On Demand - January Preview: The Indies

Movies On Demand has a new Facebook app called Click Your Flick. Each week the app pits 16 new movies on demand in a tournament style competition where you (the undecided movie viewer is looking for help on what to watch) select one movie from two releases. Over 15 rounds, it’s narrowed down to two and then the app provies a button for you to ask your friends to help you decide which movie to rent. Upon that, you then rent the movie on demand with your remote control.

In this era of social media sharing, we’re not sure how many friends will help you select a movie in a timely manner (and know the choices you’re looking for assistance on). But who thought  we'd be so dependent on social networks?

So we thought we’d play along. Our writers weigh in on the list of 16 movies...

30 MINUTES OR LESS
ANOTHER EARTH
CIRCUMSTANCE
COWBOYS & ALIENS
FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS
FRIGHT NIGHT
LIFE, ABOVE ALL
MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS
ONE DAY
THE ART OF GETTING BY
THE DEBT
THE DOUBLE HOUR
THE FUTURE
THE HANGOVER PART II
THE HELP
WE WERE HERE


WE WERE HERE vs. LIFE, ABOVE ALL
- T. Tara Turk

WE WERE HERE vs. CIRCUMSTANCE
- Joe Charnitski

THE DEBT vs. ANOTHER EARTH
- Britt Bensen

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