Last Wednesday, August 10th, we got to check out Boy and Bear at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, New York. If you haven’t heard of this folkloric band from down under, you have plenty of time to catch up. We’ll start you off. Originally a solo project for lead vocalist and guitarist, Dave Hosking, Boy and Bear expanded their lineup in 2009 to include bassist, Jake Tarasenko, vocalist and guitarist, Killian Gavin, drummer and vocalist, Tim Hart and banjoist and keyboardist, Jon Hart. The Australian band has toured with the folk kings, Mumford & Sons, in 2010 and they also released their debut Ep, “With Emperor Antarctica” within the same...
- 8/16/2011
- by lonnie
- ShockYa
The seventh annual CineKink Film Festival in NYC gave all kinds of perverts and kinky-minded individuals a warm haven during the cold month of February, Feb. 16-21 specifically. Lots of sexy fare was screened at the venerated Anthology Film Archives, but the sexiest of the sexiest? That would be these award-winning films listed below.
Your average kinky film fan was given the chance to vote for several Audience Choice Awards, but there was also a jury of super kinksters voting on short films; plus the ultimate kinky players, i.e. the staff of the CineKink fest itself, gave out a handful of special awards.
The licentious jury voting on short films consisted of Bad Lit pal Mike White of the legendary zine Cashiers du Cinemart, Lolita Wolf of the Leather Yenta (Nsfw) blog and Bill Woods of the long-running New Filmmakers screening series.
Finally, before we get to the full...
Your average kinky film fan was given the chance to vote for several Audience Choice Awards, but there was also a jury of super kinksters voting on short films; plus the ultimate kinky players, i.e. the staff of the CineKink fest itself, gave out a handful of special awards.
The licentious jury voting on short films consisted of Bad Lit pal Mike White of the legendary zine Cashiers du Cinemart, Lolita Wolf of the Leather Yenta (Nsfw) blog and Bill Woods of the long-running New Filmmakers screening series.
Finally, before we get to the full...
- 2/24/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Jon Hart and Mathew Kaufman’s entertaining documentary American Swing chronicles the rise and fall of Larry Levenson, whose nightclub & sex club Plato’s Retreat became, along with Studio 54, one of the top New York City hangouts of the late 1970s. Jon Hart (right) has kindly answered (via e-mail) a few brief questions about American Swing. See below. American Swing is currently playing at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in West Hollywood. Photos: Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. How difficult (or easy) was it to get all those people who had worked at or gone to Plato’s Retreat to be so candid about their experiences at the club? Did you run into many who refused to discuss the past? Almost everyone was extremely apprehensive about being interviewed. Once they were sitting down in front of the camera, we asked them questions and they answered. Our one request: They be themselves. In American Swing,...
- 4/6/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
American Swing (2009) Direction: Mathew Kaufman and Jon Hart Screenplay: Keith Reamer Interviewees: Buck Henry, Annie Sprinkle, Melvin van Peebles, Ron Jeremy, Jamie Gillis, Helen Gurley Brown, and others By way of interviews, photos, and home movies, Mathew Kaufman and journalist Jon Hart’s American Swing humorously chronicles the rise and fall of all-American entrepreneur Larry Levenson, free-sex advocate and self-proclaimed "King of Swing," while painting a nostalgic — though hardly all-flattering — portrait of the heyday of Plato’s Retreat, New York City’s foremost sex club-disco of the late 1970s. Earlier in the decade, wholesale meat purveyor Larry Levenson had decided to reinvent himself as a Sexual Liberation Messiah. Even so, it’s debatable whether Levenson actually saw himself as a Man with a Mission, or whether he was just a cunning self-promoter with his eye on the cash flowing into his Upper West Side club in the basement of Manhattan’s Ansonia Hotel.
- 4/3/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
As someone who has been to an untold number of swing parties in NYC, and often had a hilarious time, I’ve never found them the least bit sexy. Truth be told, average Joes engaging in group sex is rather boring to me. So I was hoping that through interviewing Jon Hart and Matthew Kaufman, co-directors of the Plato’s Retreat doc American Swing, they’d upend my Pov, get to the essence of why the notorious 70s sex club was so alluring. I spoke with the filmmakers during their opening night screening at the Museum of Sex. Jon, since you’d already exhaustively researched Plato’s Retreat and written about its founder Larry Levenson for “The NY Times” and “The Village Voice,” what drove you to want to tell the story through film? Jh: He was a larger than life character. He just had a great story. It was moving and funny.
- 3/27/2009
- by Lauren Wissot
- Spout
The animated blockbuster is back once again as Paramount/DreamWorks’ “Monsters vs. Aliens” animated comedy unspools into a massive 4,104 venues. Comparing animated weekend record holders, March holds some potent releases and is dominated by Fox. “Ice Age: The Meltdown” from Fox is the highest grossing March opener in the genre with over $68 million grossed, followed by the prequel at $46.3 million, the studio’s “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who” with $45 million and “Robots” at $36 million. “Monsters vs. Aliens” features a strong cast including Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Rainn Wilson and Stephen Colbert. Also unveiled into a wide count is "12 Rounds" in 2331 theatres. The actioner directed by Renny Harlin is sent out by 20th Century Fox. WWE megastar John Cena looks teams with the director of “Die Hard 2.” Other cast includes Ashley Scott, Steve Harris, Brian J. White, Aidan Gillen, Taylor Cole and Lara Grice.
- 3/27/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
A barrage of quality indie fare this week compliments a couple of seriously intriguing docs as well as some less than stellar genre fare as the blockbuster season of summer quietly inches ever closer.
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"12 Rounds"
It's something of an irony that Renny Harlin, the man who made grown men cry with the abominable "Die Hard 2," should scratch out a paycheck at the helm of this derivative WWE Studios thriller with a plot that borrows so heavily from the infinitely superior "Die Hard With a Vengeance." Sporting the customary condom-full-of-bowling-balls physique, WWE grappler John Cena stars as New Orleans detective Danny Fisher, the target of much ham-fisted ire from international terrorist Miles Jackson (Aidan Gillen), who blames Fisher for the death of his girlfriend. With his own girlfriend Molly (Ashley Scott) now held hostage by Jackson, Fisher becomes the pawn...
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"12 Rounds"
It's something of an irony that Renny Harlin, the man who made grown men cry with the abominable "Die Hard 2," should scratch out a paycheck at the helm of this derivative WWE Studios thriller with a plot that borrows so heavily from the infinitely superior "Die Hard With a Vengeance." Sporting the customary condom-full-of-bowling-balls physique, WWE grappler John Cena stars as New Orleans detective Danny Fisher, the target of much ham-fisted ire from international terrorist Miles Jackson (Aidan Gillen), who blames Fisher for the death of his girlfriend. With his own girlfriend Molly (Ashley Scott) now held hostage by Jackson, Fisher becomes the pawn...
- 3/24/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
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