Patrick Perez fumbles through his wallet looking for his business card. He fumbles not in a nervous way, but as if unsure which card to offer. The Columbia University alumnus turned high school teacher is also a Spanish translator, film writer/director/producer and, finally, a full-time UCLA graduate student in film directing. He settles on a […]
Author Archives: Brian Segna
SCREEN SCENES: "Jackass Number Two"
"Jackass Number Two" Director Jeff Tremaine PARAMOUNT PICTURES/MTV FILMS Johnny Knoxville and his crew of mentally twisted stuntmen have taken things to a new level of masochistic ridiculousness ““ so ridiculous that stunts such as letting a leech suck the blood out of an eyeball and shoving a massive metal fishhook through the face are […]
SCREEN SCENES: “School for Scoundrels”
“School for Scoundrels” Director Todd Phillips MGM (Out Of 5) Jon Heder can only sigh and shake his head as he recounts the moment from his youth when he made the conscious decision to strip to his underwear and plunge into a freezing pond. His feeble attempt to impress a girl is embarrassing even today, […]
A Monster Opportunity
UCLA alumnus Gil Kenan has barely scratched the surface of his film career and Steven Spielberg already wants him out of Hollywood. Actually, Spielberg requested that Kenan leave the country. The excommunication is not for disliking “E.T.,” or for mocking the two rejection letters Spielberg received from the USC School of Cinema. It is only […]