What's Park Slope Watching on Netflix?

When we get bored around these parts, we get nosey. We're too lazy to check your mail, so instead we decided to see what the most popular Netflix movies are in the Slope. You can check out the top 25 here (but only if you get the DVD package. Sorry, streamers). Turns out you aren't just re-watching the Harry Potter series or drooling over Ryan Gosling's abs in Crazy Stupid Love as expected.

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FiPS Cares: Let's Help These BK Filmmakers Raise Money For Slamdance!

The people of Park Slope love nothing more than to get all caught up in pet drama. Remember back in November when a man tied his dog up outside of a Radio Shack for a few minutes, and then some woman stole it because she thought it needed rescuing?’

Imagine a run-in like that sparking an unlikely friendship, which ultimately leads to a movie!

This is exactly what happened to filmmaker Keith Miller, who once found a lost dog in South Park Slope. After a few months of caring for it, he ran into a man on the street named Shannon Harper, who turned out to be the dog's owner. After the two men argued over the pup in question, Keith offered to buy the dog, then asked Harper if he wanted to be in a movie.

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There's Carnage in Park Slope

Do you hope and dream for a movie that will unite Park Slope Breeders and Ballers together in a fit of mutual hatred towards parents and kids? Because it's TOTALLY HAPPENING, people.

Roman Polansky’s new film Carnage tells the story of the Longstreets and the Cowans, two couples who gather in a Park Slope brownstone as they search for a resolution to their kiddos' recent fistfight at the Brooklyn Bridge Park. The encounter quickly falls apart as characters struggle to ascertain who is to blame for an assault that left one child with a loose tooth and a busted lip. So, basically it's 3 full hours of middle aged yuppies talking about the fruit of their looms in a fancy apartment.

Sounds...totally unwatchable.

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Battle For Brooklyn Needs Oscar Money

Battle For Brooklyn, the feature length documentary about the controversial Atlantic Yards project that's OHMYGOSHTHISCLOSE to being an Oscar contender, needs our help. The 8 year-long project has endured costs while qualifying for a golden statue, and filmmakers Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky are looking for outside support:

We need to make an expensive Digital Cinema Package ($6,000 for that alone!), advertise, travel, and hire publicists.  At a bare minimum, we need to raise 9K.  100% of the money raised will go towards our efforts to bring the film to as wide an audience as possible.  

As of this post, they've raised $3,478 of their $9,000 goal, with only 14 more days to go. If you'd like to donate, please do so HERE. 

A FiPS Guide To Holiday Movies

When it comes to holiday movies, we've got way to many choices these days: It's a Wonderful Life on NBC, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer on CBS, some Lifetime movie about a strong woman overcoming a large emotional obstacle around Christmas time starring Meredith Baxter, no doubt. But let's face it -- we can't spend all of our holiday vacation watching movies. We need to devote some of that time to napping or trips to the mall for returning lame gifts (I'm lookin' at you, low-carb cookbook). So we here at FiPS have each selected our favorites, which we present, should you be looking for some typical (and no so typical) holiday movie suggestions. Enjoy, and have yourself a merry little whatever you celebrate this time of year! 

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Battle For Brooklyn Getting Close to the Oscars

Photo: Tracy Collins

Is our nabe headed to the Oscars? Maaaaybe. Battle For Brooklyn, a feature length documentary about the controversial Atlantic Yards project, is one of fourteen films currently in the running for an Oscar nomination. 

Husband and wife filmmaker team Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky spent eight years carving over 500 hours of footage down into the feature length documentary, which has won numerous festival awards, including this year's Rooftop Films Summer Series Official Selection (you can read our FiPS review of the film HERE).

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[FIPS WAS THERE...] 'Ghostbusters' at Brooklyn Bridge Park

New column alert! We here at FIPS spend a hell of a lot of time out and about in Brooklyn, attending outdoor concerts, comedy shows and various other events. So [FIPS Was There...] is where we're gonna' talk about all this shit.

Last Thursday, a few of my besties and I made the trip over to Brooklyn Bridge Park for our first outdoor movie of the season. The flick showing that night was Ghostbusters, the 1984 classic starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, and a baby-faced Rick Moranis (note to self: Netflix Honey I Shrunk The Kids immediately). 

If you haven't been to an outdoor movie at Brooklyn Bridge Park, you have plenty of opportunities -- the Syfy Movies With A View series runs every Thursday night through September 1st. Here's a few tips:

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