THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 93 minutes |
Brendan Fehr does a passable job in the lead role, but is no match for Chad Lindberg, who manages to dominate any scene in which he appears…
Posted on August 30, 2010 by Brad Wilke
CHAIN LINK
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 98 minutes |
A hard-scrabble story of love and redemption, “Chain Link” marks the directing debut of Dylan Reynolds…
Posted on August 28, 2010 by Brad Wilke
CHASING THE GREEN
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 102 minutes |
Though it is technically competent, “Chasing the Green” never manages to fully pull the viewer into the emotional lives of the main characters…
Posted on August 25, 2010 by Brad Wilke
SOUVENIR: THE STOLEN AFRICAN ART
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
“Souvenir”, directed by Natasa Prosenc, is a drama set in the world of fine art. It contains elements of various genres, including mystery, thriller, and romance, but is ultimately never able to effectively blend them into a cogent whole…
Posted on August 23, 2010 by Brad Wilke
HAPPY TO BE SO…
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 47 minutes |
Yelena Demikovsky’s short documentary film “Happy to Be So…” is an affectionate chronicle of the lives of two world-renowned ballet performers…
Posted on August 21, 2010 by Brad Wilke
SOUND OF THE SOUL
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 70 minutes |
If you are a fan of world music, Stephen Olsson’s “Sound of the Soul” is a documentary not to be missed…
Posted on August 19, 2010 by Brad Wilke
FOREVER LUPE
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 32 minutes |
Even with outstanding sets, props, and costumes, this mini biopic on Lupe Velez plays out like an overwrought soap opera.
Posted on November 5, 2009 by Brad Wilke
JALE
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 11 minutes |
Unfortunately, Flores takes what could have been an uncompromising story and turns it into a heavy-handed morality play.
Posted on October 26, 2009 by Brad Wilke
EL REGALO (THE GIFT)
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 4 minutes |
This promising social critique ends in a shortcut to a minor chuckle when it could have quite easily taken the long road to a satisfying guffaw.
Posted on October 21, 2009 by Brad Wilke
SHELL
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 15 minutes |
Director Yelena Demikovsky attempts to a tell a story of innocence lost and the fleeting nature of youthful affection, but winds up getting bogged down in leaden dialogue and cheesy music.
Posted on September 30, 2009 by Brad Wilke
COAST TO COAST DIARIES
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
From the unmotivated camera work, to the middling acting, to the haphazard editing (not to mention the slapdash staging and the meandering plot), this effort is best left on the shelf.
Posted on September 29, 2009 by Brad Wilke
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
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
EYE FOR A TOOTH
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 39 minutes |
The team behind this would be well-suited to chalk this one up as a learning experience and quietly move on to their next project.
Posted on September 15, 2009 by Brad Wilke
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