By The BoomfestX Film Committee When we draw each year to a close, the last week of November gives us Americans a chance to realize everything we have taken for granted. The tradition of Thanksgiving is something I don’t have to explain; it’s literally right there in the name. In the spirit of the adageContinue Reading
The Ultimate Movie Guide for Surviving Thanksgiving
While many of us excitedly await the delicious tastes of Thanksgiving, it’s hard to get through the day (or week) unscathed by holiday drama. With everyone brought together, it’s hard to avoid political arguments, questions about your personal life, and unwanted advice from your Aunt Leslie* (names have been changed to protect the guilty). ThanksgivingContinue Reading
Five Reasons You Should Take Your Date to the Movies
As I’ve made the dating rounds over this past year, I’ve experienced a lot of negativity toward movie dates. The reasons that people hate taking their dates to the movies are endless: It’s hard to have a conversation during a movie. Movies are expensive, especially if you get snacks. It’s hard to pick a movie.Continue Reading
Build Your Playlist: Five Movie Soundtracks You Should Be Spinning
As a film lover, I know the importance of music in a film. Music carries the audience through a film’s emotional ups and downs, setting and changing the tone to fit the director’s artistic intentions. Because these songs capture some of the best cinematic moments, it makes sense that they’d result in great compilation albums. I’mContinue Reading
The Ultimate Grab Bag: The Art of the Experimental Film
Water streaks up the screen as color flickers in and out like a confused strobe light that is clearly under the influence. An unsteady voiceover fades in and out with bits of old news reports. You aren’t sure exactly what he’s saying, but it vaguely seems to be about the meaning of life, or lackContinue Reading
Small and Creepy Contest Winners
We want to personally thank everyone that entered the Boomtown Film & Music Festival’s Small and Creepy film contest! We had 10 official entries to the contest from our local area of Beaumont, TX and other parts of the country. Screenwriter Caroline Thompson worked with us to set up this contest and was set to judgeContinue Reading
10 Songs to Get You in the Halloween Spirit
By Daniel Pemberton #1 – The Cramps – “Human Fly” One of the seminal horror punk bands in the wake of The Misfits, The Cramps set out with an aesthetic to spook, and Human Fly is one of their greatest achievements. With lyrics like “I’m a reborn maggot / using germ warfare”, the band doesn’tContinue Reading
Confessions of a Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 Apologist
by Mark Stone Clashing with cold, factual style of the original film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 decays into a putrid slice of horror-comedy pie, which never tasted better than it did in the 80s. It stands firmly next to other classics of the subgenre, with no better comparison than to 1985’s The ReturnContinue Reading