BRINGING UP BOBBY

Year Released: 2012
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 95 minutes

What keeps Bobby from catapulting toward David Lynchland, and landing in Rod Serling’s “Twilight Zone” is subtlety—and an elasticized universal-hold in reality that pulls us back when we go too far the other way…

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Amy R. Handler

THIS IS NOT A FILM

Year Released: 2012
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 75 minutes

To say that Iranian filmmakers Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and Jafar Panahi’s newest “documentary,” “This is Not a Film,” is strictly the contrived ravings of Panahi’s politically-agitating mind is to grossly miss the point of this potent little non-film…

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Amy R. Handler

REVISITING THE DOCUMENTARIES: “BHUTTO”

Year Released: 2010
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 111 minutes

Born on June 21, 1953, Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007. Her murderers remain unknown, and at large…

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Amy R. Handler

CINEMA’S APPROACH TO THE AGING PROCESS

Here aging, death, and the undead are all considered morally corrupt, and something only the good can eliminate…

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Amy R. Handler

WE ARE THE HARTMANS

Year Released: 2011
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 83 minutes

“We Are the Hartmans” is a very important powerhouse that will shock you back to life. Clad in eye-watering comedy, it is a film that no one can afford to miss…

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Amy R. Handler

MAKING THE BOYS

Year Released: 2011
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 90 minutes

When one considers that the plot of “The Boys” is nothing much, a group of gay men converged at a house for a surprise birthday party for their friend, one wonders what all the fuss is about…

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Amy R. Handler

HEY, BOO

Year Released: 2010
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 78 minutes

Why are we so fascinated by celebrities, that we insist upon making legends out of shy, small-town novelists like Nell Harper Lee?

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Amy R. Handler

RANDOM LUNACY

Year Released: 2007
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 60 minutes

So how could such a resourceful and intelligent gentleman allow himself to become homeless, and how is it that others not only accepted Poppa’s idiosyncrasies, but followed him disciple-fashion?

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Amy R. Handler

MINTY: THE ASSASSIN

Year Released: 2009
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 80 minutes

Best known for films that are provocative and eccentric, Cinema Epoch’s “Minty: The Assassin” is no exception…

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Amy R. Handler

VIVA! SAINT AGRIPPINA

Year Released: 2010
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 96 minutes

Long before the People’s Princess, Diana, there was the Family Princess, Agrippina of Mineo. At least that’s the label Boston’s North Enders use when describing their beloved Patron Saint of the diseased and maimed…

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Amy R. Handler

THE MONKEY’S PAW

Year Released: 2011
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 30 minutes

Be careful what you wish for, it may just plague you for the rest of your life— and very possibly, well beyond that…

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Amy R. Handler

GUILLERMO

Year Released: 2010
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 30 minutes

For those connoisseurs of discriminating cinematic-taste, “Guillermo” is abundant in identity-theory, socio-political deconstruction, revolution, and the restoration of a highly elaborate social order…

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Amy R. Handler

ONTOLOGICA! OR A BRIEF EXPLANATION OF ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING THAT IS KNOWN ABOUT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING

Year Released: 2011
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 97 minutes

If this is beginning to feel like a bogus mind-game, then you’re on the right track toward attempting to understand Skylar Gordon’s great plan. Good luck with that…

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Amy R. Handler