Elitist Bastards: Bastardver­sary

In this special one-year anniversary episode of the Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther share their thoughts on current releases Thor, Something Borrowed, Jumping the Broom and Everything Must Go. The dynamic reviewing duo then discuss the classic Ken Russell film Savage Messiah (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening) before giving their critical forecasts for this weekend’s new releases Decisions, Bridesmaids and Priest.

Elitist Bastards: You know what happens to nosy reviewers? Huh?

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases Atlas Shrugged, Certified Copy, Rio, Scream 4, Super and Win Win. They also discuss Dead Alive (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show) and Chinatown (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening), as well as upcoming releases Jane Eyre, Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family, Water for Elephants and African Cats.

ActionFest 2011 recap and podcast


While the official end to ActionFest came Sunday night, after the film festival’s closing night screening of Takashi Miike’s 13 Assassins at The Carolina Asheville, it unofficially wound down Monday night behind the building of West Asheville’s Blue Barnhouse studio. There, a handful of people caught a screening of Evan Glodell’s pre-Apocalyptic love story Bellflower, projected on a bed sheet pegged to a couple of drainage pipes. Not far away was not only the film’s director, but also the star of the film, a matte black, fire-breathing muscle car named Mother Medusa. As a whole, this was not only the perfect finale for ActionFest 2011, but a pin-point summation of it, too, with its mix of the community driven and the unorthodox.

Elitist Bastards: Shall I wash your Hanke, sir?


In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases Source Code, Insidious and Hop. The duo also talk about next week’s Asheville Film Society screening, Blonde Venus, and upcoming releases Arthur, Hanna, Soul Surfer and Your Highness. And just to cap it off, the critics also give us a brief preview of this weekend’s ActionFest film festival.