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P.O.V.

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“P.O.V.” is a short film written and directed by Tawan Bazemore that opens with an Angelina Jolie look-alike, alone in a room, melodramatically playing the piano (she’s blind)…

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P.O.V.

"P.O.V." is a short film written and directed by Tawan Bazemore that opens with an Angelina Jolie look-alike, alone in a room, melodramatically playing the...

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AUSTRALIA

“Australia,” Baz Luhrmann's grand-scale return after a seven-year hiatus, was met with anticipation of, alas, a sour kind. As Luhrmann and company...

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HOLLYWOOD JEROME

"Hollywood Jerome" is a short film set to a spoken word composition by Malik Yusef that tells the story of an African-American youth caught in the...

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RACHEL GETTING MARRIED

In “The Silence of the Lambs,” the film that made the bogeyman into a thing of mainstream drama, the camera holds a fixed gaze upon Hannibal Lecter. ...

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THE BOOTLEG FILES: ELECTROCUTING AN ELEPHANT

BOOTLEG FILES 261 “Electrocuting an Elephant” (1903 film that pioneered the use of shameless non-fiction film manipulation). LAST SEEN: Available at...

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PANZER CORPS

Despite some stiff acting and a strong reliance on the time-worn war film formula (soldiers ducking on the ground and screaming into their two-way radios...

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TRANSPORTER 3

There is a part in the spectacularly ridiculous "Transporter 2" where Frank Martin (Jason Statham) notices an explosive device strapped to the bottom of...

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THURSDAY MARKET

"Thursday Market" is a meditation on the choices people are forced to make in their lives. A young woman named Mariyah (Nazneen Contractor) is an...

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THE WORLD WE WANT

With rampant financial discord across the globe, ages-long conflicts still ongoing and a planet riding the quick train to environmental decay, sometimes it...

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TROPIC THUNDER: 2-DISC DIRECTOR’S CUT (DVD)

Comparisons with Robert Altman's "The Player" are inevitable, and, sure enough, Robert Downey, Jr. engages in one during the bonus features on this...

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