I must confess. My guilty television viewing habits of the past have frequently included The Mentalist, a formulaic yet witty dramatic detective series with a subtle but prevalent comedic underbelly. The series features a rebellious but brilliant mind gone rogue to fulfill his own mission — rules be damned — like House M.D., but with murder investigations instead of medical mysteries. But, let me get back on track…
A while back, I had a chance to see a Fantastic Fest screening. Ultimately, my schedule demanded I sacrifice seeing this film in favor of another. For some time, I kicked myself. Besties is written by Rebecca Perry Cutter, who also happens to be a writer on The Mentalist. This also marks the feature film debut for Cutter as a director. This intrigued me, however I managed to learn a valuable lesson as well. It’s a lesson I’ve learned, and likewise forgotten...
A while back, I had a chance to see a Fantastic Fest screening. Ultimately, my schedule demanded I sacrifice seeing this film in favor of another. For some time, I kicked myself. Besties is written by Rebecca Perry Cutter, who also happens to be a writer on The Mentalist. This also marks the feature film debut for Cutter as a director. This intrigued me, however I managed to learn a valuable lesson as well. It’s a lesson I’ve learned, and likewise forgotten...
- 1/21/2014
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“Besties,” an indie film created by writer/director Rebecca Cutter (“The Mentalist”), will soon be available on Video On Demand Jan. 21. The film, which premiered at Fantastic Fest, stars Olivia Crocicchia, Madison Riley, Bobby Soto, Chris Backus, and Corin Nemec (“The Stand”), will be available to be downloaded from all the major venues, such as Amazon Instant Video, Vudu, Samsung, Comcast, Cox, Dish Network and many others. “Besties” is a film about a high schooler who becomes entangled in a dangerous relationship: “Hoping to forge a friendship with the most popular girl in school, Sandy arranges to be left at home under Ashley’s supervision while her father goes out of [ Read More ]
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- 12/23/2013
- by monique
- ShockYa
Besties is coming to VOD January 21 from Phase 4 Films, and right now we have nearly a dozen new stills for you guys to befriend. You know you want to. Everyone needs somebody, right? Especially a psychopath.
Written/directed by Rebecca Cutter, Besties features standout turns from Madison Riley (Grown Ups) and Olivia Crocicchia (Katy Gavin from TVs "Rescue Me"), with '90s icon Corin Nemec ("The Stand") co-starring.
Synopsis:
Besties tells the story of two high school girls -- Sandy, a high school freshman and self-described loser, and Ashley, a sexy senior and Sandy's former babysitter. Sandy, hoping to forge a friendship with the most popular girl in school, arranges to be left at home under Ashley's supervision while her father goes out of town. Little does Sandy know that an unexpected visitor from Ashley's past will leave the awkward freshman and her idol tangled up in a manipulative and deadly friendship.
Written/directed by Rebecca Cutter, Besties features standout turns from Madison Riley (Grown Ups) and Olivia Crocicchia (Katy Gavin from TVs "Rescue Me"), with '90s icon Corin Nemec ("The Stand") co-starring.
Synopsis:
Besties tells the story of two high school girls -- Sandy, a high school freshman and self-described loser, and Ashley, a sexy senior and Sandy's former babysitter. Sandy, hoping to forge a friendship with the most popular girl in school, arranges to be left at home under Ashley's supervision while her father goes out of town. Little does Sandy know that an unexpected visitor from Ashley's past will leave the awkward freshman and her idol tangled up in a manipulative and deadly friendship.
- 12/23/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Word has just come that a spine-chilling thriller in the tradition of Single White Female (didn't know she had a tradition), Besties, is coming to VOD January 21 from Phase 4 Films. Read on for details.
Written/directed by Rebecca Cutter, Besties features standout turns from Madison Riley (Grown Ups) and Olivia Crocicchia (Katy Gavin from TVs "Rescue Me"), with '90s icon Corin Nemec ("The Stand") co-starring.
Synopsis:
Besties tells the story of two high school girls -- Sandy, a high school freshman and self-described loser, and Ashley, a sexy senior and Sandy's former babysitter. Sandy, hoping to forge a friendship with the most popular girl in school, arranges to be left at home under Ashley's supervision while her father goes out of town. Little does Sandy know that an unexpected visitor from Ashley's past will leave the awkward freshman and her idol tangled up in a manipulative and deadly friendship.
Written/directed by Rebecca Cutter, Besties features standout turns from Madison Riley (Grown Ups) and Olivia Crocicchia (Katy Gavin from TVs "Rescue Me"), with '90s icon Corin Nemec ("The Stand") co-starring.
Synopsis:
Besties tells the story of two high school girls -- Sandy, a high school freshman and self-described loser, and Ashley, a sexy senior and Sandy's former babysitter. Sandy, hoping to forge a friendship with the most popular girl in school, arranges to be left at home under Ashley's supervision while her father goes out of town. Little does Sandy know that an unexpected visitor from Ashley's past will leave the awkward freshman and her idol tangled up in a manipulative and deadly friendship.
- 11/14/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
If Fantastic Fest screens a movie made by women with females in the lead, I'll be there. (Okay, unless it screens at midnight or is excessively violent/gory. They don't call me the Film Festival Wuss for nothing.) So Besties was on my radar from the start, and it did not disappoint.
Sandy (Olivia Crocicchia) is a lumpish 14-year-old girl, teased mercilessly by classmates, who idolizes the girl next door -- her former babysitter Ashley (Madison Riley), a senior, blonde and perfect. When Sandy's dad goes out of town for the weekend, she asks if Ashley can "babysit" so she can hang out with the most popular girl in school. Ashley agrees, because what girl wouldn't want access to an empty house for the weekend? She parties, she ignores Sandy ... and then Ashley's ex-con ex-boyfriend Justin turns up, bad news personified. Ashley overreacts, and next thing we know, the girls...
- 10/4/2012
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
A few years back, I attended an anniversary screening for Fred Dekker’s The Monster Squad, with the cast and filmmaker in attendance for a post-film Q&A. A young girl in attendance asked Dekker whether he felt any reservations upon re-viewing it twenty years later, in having one of his young characters call another a faggot. It was an honest question that deserved an honest question in response. Dekker: “Ma’am, may I ask what your name is?” Attendee: “It’s ______” Dekker: “Okay,_______, if you don’t mind me asking, have you ever been a twelve year old boy?” I feel like any negative comments I might have towards Rebecca Perry Cutter‘s Besties would result in someone saying the same thing to me, just reversing the gender. I am not much of a fan of Besties, but I also was never a timid 14-year-old girl struggling to break out of her shell. I...
- 9/23/2012
- by Adam Charles
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
We all have our special friends that we would do anything in the world for. No matter how sick, depraved, gross, vile, wicked, disingenuous, loathsome, evil, despicable, horrid, malevolent... oh, you get the idea! Read on!
From the Press Release
Director Rebecca Perry Cutter’s debut suspense thriller Besties will have its world premiere at this year’s Fantastic Fest 2012 on Saturday, September 22nd, at 12:15 pm at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, TX, and again on Monday, September 24th, at 3:00 pm. The film stars Madison Riley (Grown Ups, Fired Up), Olivia Crocicchia (Rescue Me, Terri), Corin Nemac (Parker Lewis Can’T Lose, Stargate-SG1), and Christopher Backus (Elevator, Yellow Rock) and was produced by Linda L. Miller (Sweet Talk, Alyce), associate producer Tiffany Grant, and executive producer Katherine Hoagland. Feliks Parnell (Weeds, CSI:ny, The Event) served as Director of Photography.
Fantastic Fest is the largest film festival in the U.
From the Press Release
Director Rebecca Perry Cutter’s debut suspense thriller Besties will have its world premiere at this year’s Fantastic Fest 2012 on Saturday, September 22nd, at 12:15 pm at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, TX, and again on Monday, September 24th, at 3:00 pm. The film stars Madison Riley (Grown Ups, Fired Up), Olivia Crocicchia (Rescue Me, Terri), Corin Nemac (Parker Lewis Can’T Lose, Stargate-SG1), and Christopher Backus (Elevator, Yellow Rock) and was produced by Linda L. Miller (Sweet Talk, Alyce), associate producer Tiffany Grant, and executive producer Katherine Hoagland. Feliks Parnell (Weeds, CSI:ny, The Event) served as Director of Photography.
Fantastic Fest is the largest film festival in the U.
- 9/20/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Director: Tony Vidal Writer(s): Tony Vidal (screeplay) Starring: Matt Angel, Ken Davitian, Veronica Sixtos, Madison Riley, Georges Corraface, Jareb Dauplaise, Devon Werkheiser, Robert Adamson, Kurt Fuller The Pranksters are a clandestine group of high school misfits who have dedicated their teenage years to combating the social inequities and hateful cliques inherent in high school. Their random acts of subterfuge are designed to make people more open towards the differences of others; they just want everyone to chill out and loosen the heck up.
- 10/8/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
[some might consider this a spoiler for one of the jokes that Adam Sandler and Fred Wolf probably think is one of the more clever ones in their script. tough shit] Oh, Grown Ups, you are too, too predictable. You load yourself up on male-gazing, making a big deal in particular about how disgusting it is, to the male eyes of David Spade and Chris Rock, that Rob Schneider is not only married to Joyce Van Patten, a woman a good 30 years older than him, but that he would actually tongue-fence her in public. (In the film, it’s not the sweet, simple kiss that appears in the trailer.) You make a huge extended joke out of the film’s five juvenile protagonists ogling 20-year-old Madison Riley, blond and skinny and tall and all legs in short shorts -- that is, she’s “hot” -- bent over the engine of a car that Spade’s character has deliberately disabled so that she’ll (hopefully) pose with her ass in their faces all day. The male-gazing -- of either approval or disapproval...
- 6/30/2010
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Salma Hayek may have enjoyed making her new movie, the Adam Sandler comedy Grown Ups, but her 2½-year-old daughter Valentina may have loved her time on set even more. "Everybody brought their family [to set]," the actress, 43, told People at Grown Ups's New York premiere Wednesday night. "Valentina had the best time out of anybody on the set, I think." What did her young daughter do to keep entertained while mom was filming? She serenaded Hayek's costars. "She does sing 'Twinkle, Twinkle [Little Star],' but the kids [in the movie] taught her other [songs]. Now they've got her into the soundtrack of Mamma Mia. She of course likes [the song] 'Mamma Mia,...
- 6/25/2010
- by Jeffrey Slonim
- PEOPLE.com
Helen Mirren takes her clothes off in the tub - D-Listed Alison Brie talks about her onscreen kiss with Joel McHale - PopEater About a Boy's Nicholas Hoult is all grown up now - Lainey Gossip Grown Ups' Madison Riley poses for Maxim - Egotastic Prince Harry visits the minefields of Mozambique - Pink Is the New Blog More drama with Gary Coleman's ex-wife - The Superficial Megan Fox even looks good in workout clothes - Hollywood Tuna James Franco's solo art exhibit should be interesting - Hollywood Rag Spencer Pratt disses his estranged father on Twitter - popbytes Nick Jonas makes his West End debut - JustJaredJr.
- 6/22/2010
- by PopSugar
- Popsugar.com
Supporting indie film, we now offer you images from Strand Releasing's "The Prankster" which opens in limited venues on September 28th. The Tony Vidal-helmed, written and produced comedy stars Matt Angel, Veronica Sixtos, Kurt Fuller, Michaela Watkins, Maiara Walsh, Robert Adamson and Devon Werkheiser. Also in the cast are Madison Riley, Jareb Dauplaise, Ally Maki, Marcella Lentz-Pope, Preston Davis, Danny Max, Kunal Sharma, Ken Davitan and Georges Corraface. Chris Karas is the brilliant leader of The Pranksters, a secret society that rights the wrongs of high school by pulling sophisticated pranks on deserving oppressors. But with graduation looming, Chris longs for more from life. Guided by the homespun wisdom of his charmingly eccentric Uncle Nick, Chris embarks on a challenging path of self-discovery and romance...
- 6/7/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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