COVERAGE
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 34 minutes |
Writer/director Jef Taylor attempts to make sense of the senseless by examining one man’s sexual dysfunction in the wake of an act of incomprehensible violence.
Posted on September 23, 2009 by Brad Wilke
WALLACE & GROMIT: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: G Running Time: 127 minutes |
All four short films feature strong storytelling, and watching them in order really highlights Park and company’s artistic and technical evolution.
Posted on September 23, 2009 by Brad Cook
LAST HOUSE IN THE WOODS (IL BOSCO FUORI)
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 85 minutes |
I am not sure what inspires young filmmakers to continually rehash this same tired nonsense, but if you’re going to do so, at least bring something new to it.
Posted on September 22, 2009 by James Teitelbaum
SCARRED JUSTICE: THE ORANGEBURG MASSACRE 1968
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 57 minutes |
A remarkable documentary on the long-forgotten February 1968 racial tensions in Orangeburg, South Carolina, that culminated in three black students being killed and 28 injured by National Guard and state police.
Posted on September 22, 2009 by Phil Hall
THE BEEKEEPER
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 27 minutes |
A subtle study in the art of deceit.
Posted on September 22, 2009 by Doug Brunell
WHITEOUT
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 96 minutes |
“Whiteout” is a colorless wasteland. There’s only one thing that could have helped cover this film up: A flashback that changed the script’s name to Wite-Out.
Posted on September 21, 2009 by Elias Savada
COOKIES AND CREAM
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
“Cookies and Cream,” at its best, feels like a sophomore student film, and not one that might have been graded particularly well.
Posted on September 21, 2009 by James Teitelbaum
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 99 minutes |
This moc-doc is a brutal, exhausting, and genuinely horrifying little ghost flick.
Posted on September 21, 2009 by Felix Vasquez Jr.
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 81 minutes |
The fantastic journey stems from the kids’ housebound daydreaming – dinner time is inescapable, after all.
Posted on September 20, 2009 by Matthew Sorrento
KEEPING THE PEACE
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 89 minutes |
This doc on Green Party member Michael Berg is a fine underdog story and an insightful examination of American politics from the outside looking in.
Posted on September 20, 2009 by Brad Wilke
HA-SODOT (THE SECRETS)
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 127 minutes |
A layered and complex story that deals, ultimately, with feminism in 21st-century Orthodox Judaism.
Posted on September 19, 2009 by James Teitelbaum
THE BURNING PLAIN
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 111 minutes |
Fate breeds fatalism in a tale that Guillermo Arriaga masterfully writes and directs. It’s realized so beautifully and viscerally that – I hate to say it – Alejandro González Iñárritu now seems a little obsolete.
Posted on September 19, 2009 by Matthew Sorrento
THE BOOTLEG FILES: DRUGS ARE LIKE THAT
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 pours out some anti-drug propaganda with everyone’s favorite homophobic orange juice spokeswoman.
Posted on September 18, 2009 by Phil Hall
THE INFORMANT!
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 108 minutes |
Things are quite interesting in what could have easily been a dry corporate corruption story.
Posted on September 18, 2009 by Jessica Baxter
JENNIFER’S BODY
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 102 minutes |
The male audience members drawn in by sedutive ads of Megan Fox are just like Jennifer’s victims, the guys in the film who puppyishly follow her into the woods to be slaughtered, made dumb by lust.
Posted on September 18, 2009 by Nick Antosca