AUSTRALIA
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 127 minutes |
With measured visual flash, Luhrmann highlights the delightful presence of his two stars and realizes an unlikely feelgood film, in spite of its grave matters…
Posted on November 30, 2008 by Matthew Sorrento
P.O.V.
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
“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)…
Posted on November 30, 2008 by Brad Wilke
RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 113 minutes |
Demme keeps a close eye on his shaggy family drama and, by assembling it, creates a platform for numerous natural performers to shine…
Posted on November 29, 2008 by Matthew Sorrento
HOLLYWOOD JEROME
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
Director Frey Hoffman is able to deftly translate Yusef’s poetry into darkly comical vignettes that trace the progress of young Jerome (Ishmael Hatter) as he finds himself far from home and out of luck…
Posted on November 29, 2008 by Brad Wilke
THE BOOTLEG FILES: ELECTROCUTING AN ELEPHANT
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 discovers the source of dishonest non-fiction filmmaking!
Posted on November 28, 2008 by Phil Hall
TRANSPORTER 3
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 100 minutes |
It’s hard to recommend to someone that they should shell out good coin to see this film in an actual theater…
Posted on November 28, 2008 by Michael Ferraro
PANZER CORPS
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 19 minutes |
Despite some stiff acting and a strong reliance on the time-worn war film formula, Adam Valuckas’s World War II short “Panzer Corps” succeeds because of its powerful finale and surprisingly convincing battle scenes…
Posted on November 28, 2008 by Gerard Quinn
THE WORLD WE WANT
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
These technical complaints don’t change the fact that these kids are making real impacts in their communities, that change is possible, that we’re not completely powerless out there and that “The World We Want” is worth seeing…
Posted on November 27, 2008 by Mark Bell
THURSDAY MARKET
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
With a little more attention to story and character development, “Thursday Market” could have been a great movie. As is, it is merely good…
Posted on November 27, 2008 by Brad Wilke
TROPIC THUNDER: 2-DISC DIRECTOR’S CUT (DVD)
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 120 minutes |
Cruise turns in a stellar ego-deflating performance, but Downey steals the movie as Lazarus, who gets a skin-darkening procedure to play his role and who stays in character even when the cameras aren’t rolling…
Posted on November 26, 2008 by Brad Cook
GOD’S COUNTRY
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 15 minutes |
Filled with pretentious, rhyming dialogue and shot in black and white, “God’s Country” wears its ambitions on its sleeve… and, ultimately, falls woefully short…
Posted on November 25, 2008 by Brad Wilke
DAY LABOR
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 12 minutes |
Following an energetic opening title sequence, the short quickly loses momentum…
Posted on November 24, 2008 by Brad Wilke
OBSCENE: A PORTRAIT OF BARNEY ROSSET AND GROVE PRESS
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 97 minutes |
With testimony from scads of heyday contributors and an infectious design reflecting Grove Press’s innovative cover art – not to mention a fine representation of the man throughout his career – the filmmakers could have shelved the weaker bits without missing a beat…
Posted on November 23, 2008 by Matthew Sorrento
A BAKERY STORY
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 21 minutes |
You’d think that with a homo/hetero love triangle, death by bread dough and cookies made with a “secret” ingredient you’d be engrossed from the start and unable to tear your eyes from the screen, right?
Posted on November 23, 2008 by Brad Wilke
FAN MAIL
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 5 minutes |
Utilizing a compelling first-person narrator, Christensen manages to show what it is like in the head of an ardent fan as he sits down to write a torturous fan letter to a cinematic hero…
Posted on November 22, 2008 by Brad Wilke