June is one of the biggest months for cinema. It’s right in the middle of what is known as blockbuster season. Or, if you want to be edgy, call it “popcorn cinema.” It’s the summer –the time when all the movies with giant budgets hi theaters: some with a brain,…
In space, no one can hear you scream (or speak French, which is tragic because it’s so difficult to learn), but at the Texas Theatre, you can howl as loud your lungs will let you. Where I’m going with this: TT is doing a double feature tonight of Ridley Scott’s…
When the Oak Cliff Film Festival announced their first wave of films screening next month at their fourth annual festival it was so banging it had the possibility of knocking you off your feet. Of those first five films announced, the one I’ve seen is Rick Alverson’s quietly wild Entertainment,…
I was twelve-years-old when Empire Records released. Depending how old you are, that might make me much older than you but that would also means I’m much wiser and better looking so I’m OK with it. When Empire Records hit theaters 20 years ago, it changed a lot for the…
Chances are you don’t know who Cameron Nelson is and that’s ok, we can still be friends. Here’s your Reader’s Digest on the Dallas filmmaker: Nelson has been dabbling in the indie film world around these parts for a while now. He’s produced, written and directed a handful of short…
I first spoke to Jesse Eisenberg, on behalf of Gordon and the Whale, two years ago at Comic-Con when he was promoting Zombieland. He was polite, said thank you and answered all my questions with witty and comical honesty. A few weeks ago I spoke with him again when he…
This morning I got an alert from Google telling me I was mentioned somewhere on the Internet. Naturally, I clicked on the link so I could read what nice or horrifying things were said. In this case, it was an article posted by my pal Russ Fischer over at /Film…
If you read Gordon and the Whale, then you already know that next month will be our last month as a functioning daily website. I announced the news at 10 a.m. Monday. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t cry — a lot — and listen to Journey’s “Don’t…
Most people know Crispin Glover as Marty McFly’s father, the Thin Man in Charlie’s Angels or Willard, the rat loving psychopath. What he isn’t known for is performance art. Until now. Glover has been touring the world with his wildly weird two-night, one-man show, Crispin Hellion Glover’s Big Slide Show,…
There’s a dark uprising on the Internet currently happening. Yesterday a bootleg trailer for The Dark Knight Rises showed up online. Many websites that garner almost a million unique hits per day posted it, some with misleading headlines, and Warner Bros. was quick to put out a cease and desist…
“This is Frank Drebin, Police Squad. Throw down your guns, and come on out with your hands up. Or come on out, then throw down your guns, whichever way you wanna do it. Just remember the two key elements here: one, guns to be thrown down; two, come on out!”…
Last week I interviewed stand-up comedian/actor Ahmed Ahmed, who’s currently touring the U.S. to promote his directorial debut, the wonderful documentary Just Like Us. In the film, out on screens for a week now here in Dallas, Ahmed takes us and his stand-up routine around the world, showing a diversity…
Green Lantern, starring Ryan Reynolds, opens nationwide this Friday. Two days ago, however, the film was screened for press in New York and L.A. and the buzz has been, well, less than friendly. Yesterday, Drew McWeeny from HitFix posted his review, calling the film “awkward, uneven,” and saying it “packs…
Amblin Entertainment. It’s the production company founded in 1981 by Steven Spielberg. You have, without any doubt in my mind, seen an Amblin film at some point in your life. The best Amblin films were the ones that took you away from everyday troubles and made you believe in something…
One of my favorite things about seeing a film on its first weekend of release is the trailers that play before it. I normally try my best to avoid trailers at all cost because I hate seeing too much — I want the full surprise. When I see a film…
There is a large spot in my soft heart reserved for the X-Men. Growing up, my Saturday mornings weren’t spent playing in the dirt and being a stereotypical boy, but glued to the TV watching the X-Men cartoon. I collected all the action figures and my favorite was Gambit. You…
One of the best things about going to film festivals is taking a chance on a movie you know almost nothing about and coming out hours later inspired, broken, or slack-jawed; it’s the indie gems that make the exhaustion well worth your time. Yes, attending the premieres of the big…
Apologies for not updating you sooner, but things (of course) did not work in my favor when I arrived in France. We were expecting to cover the whole festival, but Gordon and the Whale’s sponsor for the festival intended for us to cover only a few films. My associate, Joshua…
My name is Chase Whale and I’m a movie addict. This is a really special week for me, Chase, movie addict, and there are two reasons for that. On Wednesday I headed out to France to cover the Cannes Film Festival for Stella Artois and film culture website GordonandtheWhale.com. Now,…
