FEVER NIGHT
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  Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 85 minutes |
The film has a great “Blair Witch”-style vibe going for it during its initial half, then substitutes the Val Lewton-style suggestion of horror with an anvil approach of in-your-face violence.
Posted on August 31, 2009 by Phil Hall
REUNION
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  Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 12 minutes |
“Reunion,” which tells what the lives of those lost during the Columbine tragedy might have been like, is eye-rollingly corny. I’m sorry, dudes. It is.
Posted on August 31, 2009 by Jessica Baxter
EL SEGUNDO
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 89 minutes |
As low-budget indie Tex-Mex mystical adventure films go (and really this is a booming genre, right?), “El Segundo” is at least modestly entertaining.
Posted on August 29, 2009 by James Teitelbaum
THE BOOTLEG FILES: WIZARD OF OZ (1925)
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of classic and kooky flicks that can be found only on bootlegged videos and DVD. This week, Phil finds himself on the wrong Yellow Brick Road!
Posted on August 28, 2009 by Phil Hall
THE END OF ALL THINGS
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 30 minutes |
A shaky camera whip-panning back and forth during conversations drags an attempt at a documentarian feel into confusion.
Posted on August 27, 2009 by James Teitelbaum
RUN! BITCH RUN!
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  Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
Hell hath no fury like a Catholic schoolgirl disillusioned.
Posted on August 27, 2009 by Jessica Baxter
ART OF WAR (DVD)
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 94 minutes |
Anyone with a serious interest in Sun Tzu’s The Art of War will be left baffled by this chaotic approach to the subject.
Posted on August 26, 2009 by Phil Hall
ZEBRA CROSSINGS
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
Debuting director Sam Holland borrows equally from Scorsese and Guy Ritchie, though manages to maintain a unique voice in spite of the hectic camera work and flashy editorial flourishes.
Posted on August 25, 2009 by Brad Wilke
SPEAKING OF SOULS: INTERVIEW WITH WRITER-DIRECTOR SOPHIE BARTHES
First time writer-director Sophie Barthes talks about her new film “Cold Souls” in which Paul Giamatti stars as – Giamatti!
Posted on August 24, 2009 by Whitney Borup
DEAD SNOW (DOD SNO)
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 91 minutes |
AVAILABLE ON IFC ON DEMAND! You’d think that the Third Reichsploitation field had been done to death – and beyond…this is really “inglourious.”
Posted on August 23, 2009 by Graham Rae
BREAKING THE BANK (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 60 minutes |
“Breaking the Bank” is a sloppy and irresponsible entry that does not measure up to the “Frontline” standards of video journalism.
Posted on August 22, 2009 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: TRIUMPH OF THE WILL
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of classic and kooky flicks that can be found only on bootlegged videos and DVD. This week, Phil heils right in Der Fuhrer’s face!
Posted on August 21, 2009 by Phil Hall
THE HEADLESS WOMAN (LA MUJER SIN CABEZA)
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 87 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! “The Headless Woman” settles into the episodic without the necessary character development – it’s a slice of life too slight for its own good.
Posted on August 21, 2009 by Matthew Sorrento
THE GOODS: LIVE HARD, SELL HARD
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 90 minutes |
Ninety minutes of the gag-plastered, variously surreal, and deliriously dumb.
Posted on August 20, 2009 by Rick Kisonak
PERFECT HIDEOUT (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
Like Gina Gershon in “Showgirls” before him, Billy Zane is the only one who knows what kind of movie he’s in, and decides to make the best of it.
Posted on August 19, 2009 by Jessica Baxter
