KHARON’S FARE
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  Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 6 minutes |
An exercise in brevity and quite an accomplishment, considering the time limitations.
Posted on June 23, 2009 by John Clapp
ADAM
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  Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 95 minutes |
If you trade stars for shrimp, “Adam” is actually pretty close to Gump. And that’s why the Hallmark crowd will eat it up.
Posted on June 23, 2009 by Jessica Baxter
CANADIAN CLASSICKS: PORKY’S (1982)
Canadian Classicks is a look at some of the gems and turds from the so-called “tax shelter period,” when the Canadian government introduced new laws in an effort to boost domestic film production.
This week’s entry looks back to the teen sex comedy “Porky’s” – technically, the highest grossing Canadian film of all time.
Posted on June 22, 2009 by Mariko McDonald
UNDER OUR SKIN
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 103 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! Filmmaker Andy Abrahams Wilson overstuffs this documentary on Lyme disease with endless artsy shots of nature.
Posted on June 22, 2009 by Phil Hall
TURISTAS
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  Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 105 minutes |
2009 LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! If you frequent festivals and arthouse cinemas it’s something you’ve seen countless other times.
Posted on June 21, 2009 by Eric Campos
THE GIRL FROM MONACO
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  Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 95 minutes |
SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FEATURE! I am so tired or stories about men who are powerless against the wiles of a Succubus.
Posted on June 21, 2009 by Jessica Baxter
FREEBIE AND THE BEAN (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 113 minutes |
Back in 1974, this type of frenetic crud was considered to be popular entertainment.
Posted on June 20, 2009 by Phil Hall
POPPY SHAKESPEARE
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FEATURE! This trapped-in-the-nuthouse film is emotional, weird, and occasionally beautiful.
Posted on June 20, 2009 by Jessica Baxter
THE BOOTLEG FILES: ARNOLD (1973)
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 digs up a film about a corpse who marries a hot chick.
Posted on June 19, 2009 by Phil Hall
FOOD, INC.
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 94 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! Be prepared when seeing this film: you’ll ponder the old adage about being what you eat.
Posted on June 19, 2009 by Matthew Sorrento
MANUFACTURED CONSUMPTION: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER ROBERT KENNER
Robert Kenner talks about his new documentary, “Food, Inc.”: “You can’t have a capitalist system if you don’t have information. A free market is based on correct information. And we’re not getting it with food.”
Posted on June 18, 2009 by Jessica Baxter
PATRIOTVILLE
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
OFFICIAL SELECTION CINEVEGAS 2009!!! Chase Revere’s world opens up to him as it can only in an indie film where a full-bore dork bags a chick who’s way, way out of his league.
Posted on June 18, 2009 by Don R. Lewis
WHAT’S UP, TIGER LILY? (DVD)
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 80 minutes |
The way Woody Allen reassembled footage from two existing Japanese spy films and then inserted his own dialogue is really quite brilliant.
Posted on June 18, 2009 by Brad Cook
SIFF AND SPIN!!! PART THREE
In his third, final installment of 2009 Seattle International Film Festival coverage, KJ Doughton finds a Danish “Blood Simple,” a birthday party in Palestine, and Paul Giamatti in “Cold Souls”…
Posted on June 17, 2009 by KJ Doughton
SCRATCH
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 89 minutes |
SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FEATURE! In scene after scene of slamming doors and one-sided conversations, there’s not much enjoyable about this film.
Posted on June 17, 2009 by Jessica Baxter