KINKS
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 86 minutes |
Except for some troublesome pacing issues, when the film lags several times along its 86-minute journey, it will have you laughing mindlessly throughout…
Posted on February 16, 2013 by Amy R. Handler
HETEROCHROMIA
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 12 minutes |
I’m a great fan of investigating alternate realities— both philosophically and through film and storytelling. After all, why assume what we readily see and hear is all there is. Right?
Posted on February 15, 2013 by Amy R. Handler
NO ONE KNOWS
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  Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 9 minutes |
But tales of mundane things are seldom just that, and Bunee Tomlinson’s film is no exception…
Posted on February 15, 2013 by Amy R. Handler
BRIDGES
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 12 minutes |
Bell is a master storyteller, using his camera as a stalking voyeur. This in itself creates discomfort, and makes us feel that we are peeking in on something that’s not our business…
Posted on February 14, 2013 by Amy R. Handler
WORK OF ART
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
Still, this highly convoluted—dare I say, ludicrous—slapstick does have moments of sheer brilliance, and that too is difficult to ignore…
Posted on February 13, 2013 by Amy R. Handler
HATE CRIME
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 72 minutes |
Don’t get me wrong. I think Bressack should be commended for his bravery in filmmaking, interesting cinematography, and most of all, for finding willing actors (all excellent) to play out endless actions of mental and physical cruelty— but to what end?
Posted on February 11, 2013 by Amy R. Handler
BRINGING UP BOBBY
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  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
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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”
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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
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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
