WANTED
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 110 minutes |
“Wanted” is a movie so shamelessly derivative of so many other movies that it ought to have a work-cited page at the start of the closing credits…
Posted on June 30, 2008 by Scott Mendelson
MONTY FOR ENGLAND
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 29 minutes |
Will people without their heads firmly lodged up their rear ends look at this film as little more than a half-hearted, ill-conceived PSA about the Sikh community being just like everyone else? Most definitely…
Posted on June 30, 2008 by Doug Brunell
THE WILD MAN OF THE NAVIDAD
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 84 minutes |
Just like its models from some thirty or more years ago, “The Wildman of the Navidad” has its share of flaws and weaknesses. It also has a lot of heart and does a perfect job of being the kind of film Meeks and Graves meant for it to be…
Posted on June 30, 2008 by Merle Bertrand
CARGO 200
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 89 minutes |
2008 LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! So if it’s such a boring film with only a few points of interest – why the fairly positive star rating? Well, I don’t know if this was intentional or not, but the movie made me laugh…
Posted on June 29, 2008 by Eric Campos
OPERA FANATIC (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 93 minutes |
The interview subjects, mercifully, don’t act like divas for the camera – everyone is somewhat bemused to be sought out after being away from the spotlight for years…
Posted on June 29, 2008 by Phil Hall
WANTED
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 110 minutes |
“Wanted’s” greatest asset is director Timur Bekmambetov’s (in his English-language directorial debut) willingness to acknowledge the film’s utter goofiness…
Posted on June 28, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
FAMILIAR STRANGERS
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 0 minutes |
Of course, there’s a flipside to making your family “dramedy” more down-to-earth, for while it doesn’t have as far to fall if it bombs, it isn’t going to reach such dizzying heights if it’s really good…
Posted on June 28, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
BRUISED AND BATTERED: 2008 CINEVEGAS FILM FESTIVAL WRAP-UP (PART 3)
I think I aged a year for every one of my 10 days in Vegas, coincidentally matching up with the CineVegas Film Festival’s 10th Anniversary. There were movies, there were parties, there were compromising photo shoots. Wouldn’t have it any other way…
Posted on June 27, 2008 by Mark Bell
BRUISED AND BATTERED: 2008 CINEVEGAS FILM FESTIVAL WRAP-UP (PART 2)
I think I aged a year for every one of my 10 days in Vegas, coincidentally matching up with the CineVegas Film Festival’s 10th Anniversary. There were movies, there were parties, there were compromising photo shoots. Wouldn’t have it any other way…
Posted on June 27, 2008 by Mark Bell
THE BOOTLEG FILES: BILL AND COO
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of classic and kooky flicks that can only be found on bootlegged videos and DVD. This week, Phil cleans up some Oscar-winning bird droppings…
Posted on June 27, 2008 by Phil Hall
HENRY MAY LONG
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 99 minutes |
Both Camargo and Barnhart appear capable of stretching themselves, it’s just too bad the script doesn’t let them…
Posted on June 27, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
SEX GALAXY
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 76 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! Admittedly, the plot is a bit thin, and the script is mostly an excuse for an unrelenting series of double entendres, but the narrative is secondary to the deft way in which Davis works with his footage…
Posted on June 26, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
STILL GREEN BLOG 4: ADVICE FROM THIS ONE PRODUCER
If you are an aspiring actor, you’ve just gotten your headshots, and you’re about to start sending them out, I have what I hope is a useful piece of advice. I’m not pretending to be a casting guru. But at least from this one producers perspective, this is one of the biggest mistakes an actor [...]
Posted on June 25, 2008 by Georgia Menides
REVENGE OF THE SIFF: 2008 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FINAL WRAP-UP
Like a post-war battlefield strewn with bloody bodies, the Puget Sound area is slowly recovering from 2008’s Seattle International Film Festival…
Posted on June 25, 2008 by KJ Doughton
WHERE ARE THEIR STORIES?
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 73 minutes |
2008 LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL FEATURE! Some may call this movie mesmerizing, ponderous, or even beautiful in its simplicity – I call it boring as Hell and a test of my patience…
Posted on June 25, 2008 by Pauline Sangrat
