Without the benefit of a big budget, It’s A Disaster turned out to be one hell of a low key apocalypse dark comedy nicely written and directed by Todd Berger. It won’t have as much explosions or cameos from A-list celebrities (there’s David Cross, America Ferrera, and Julia Stiles if that’s what you looking for) left and right, but, if you get a chance, buy it and watch it on the recently released DVD.
It’s A Disaster by Todd Berger welcomes a wondrously nuanced dark comedy right at the apocalypse, as opposed to so many that are post-apocalyptic and full of zombies, of what will actually happen when most people’s dreaded afternoon at couples brunch was interrupted by their world basically ending.
Think if Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia was incredibly hilarious and you actually liked/related/identified with some of the characters, you’d get It’s A Disaster. Once you’re done with that, go see it at Vintage Los Feliz 3 now or when it opens up wider on June 20th or, we guess, on the Vine app for Twitter @OscopeLabs (starting in chronological order here).
The Nielsen Company, in an attempt to more accurately represent viewership of TV shows with the current advent of the Internet and home/mobile devices, has agreed to expand the scope of their reported TV ratings to include Netflix, Amazon Instant, Xbox, Playstation, and the iPad. This is in addition to their Nielsen Twitter rating.
However, it was announced last month that the movie It’s A Disaster starring David Cross (it has a great trailer if you haven’t seen it already) from Oscilloscope will be put on the new 6 second video Twitter based app Vine.
We’re not exactly sure how all of this will play out or how much growing pains we’ll go through, but the once very segmented realms of movies, television, and the Internet are melding together, which is good, we believe, in the long run.
A bunch of dysfunctional people are getting together to have brunch at a house and while issues rise to the surface, then the world might end, during their brunch. Along with David Cross, “It’s A Disaster” looks very enticing.