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
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  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
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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
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  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
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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
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  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
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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
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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
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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
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  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
“GENERAL ORDERS NO. 9″: AN INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER ROBERT PERSONS
In the interview that follows, filmmaker Bob Persons and I talk much about “General Orders No. 9,” it’s implications and, of course, ghosts…
Posted on September 1, 2011 by Amy R. Handler
DESERT RAIN
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 78 minutes |
All in all, “Desert Rain” is a strongly provocative film, with interesting moral and existential undertones…
Posted on August 31, 2011 by Amy R. Handler
“ZERO PERCENT”: AN INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER TIM SKOUSEN
Filmmaker Tim Skousen has created a very unique documentary about prison-life that moves as swiftly and fluidly as the finest of narratives…
Posted on August 24, 2011 by Amy R. Handler
DETERMINISM
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
The story unfolds at a Pennsylvania college campus, and concerns the bleaker side of academia, where education and dreams succumb to drug deals, guns and murder…
Posted on August 14, 2011 by Amy R. Handler
“THE BIG UNEASY”: AN INTERVIEW WITH HARRY SHEARER
2011 WOODS HOLE FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! Harry Shearer discards his black-humored charm in his documentary, “The Big Uneasy,” a very important film about Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of New Orleans…
Posted on August 5, 2011 by Amy R. Handler