PSYCHO HILLBILLY CABIN MASSACRE
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 17 minutes |
If you are a producer out there that needs someone to take a group of good-looking actors, place them in a cliched horror film setting, run up the body count, splatter the screen with blood, and then leave the door open for a sequel, then look no further…
Posted on December 17, 2008 by Brad Wilke
SPRAWLING FROM GRACE (DVD)
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 82 minutes |
Better suited for public television than commercial release, “Sprawling from Grace” employs a didactic tone to continually drum its anti-sprawl, anti-petroleum message. As a member of the choir being preached to, even I must admit it’s a bit dry and disengaging…
Posted on December 16, 2008 by Brad Wilke
P.O.V.
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 20 minutes |
This is an interesting concept that probably would’ve worked better as a music video or experimental film…
Posted on December 10, 2008 by Brad Wilke
SURVIVING NEW YEAR’S
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 39 minutes |
Apparently, there was no script (which seems to be all the rage these days) and, as a result, the actors just run wild, improv-ing their way around the house, running in circles and, sadly, going nowhere. Just like the movie they’re in…
Posted on December 8, 2008 by Brad Wilke
THE UNDERTAKER
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 14 minutes |
This is a competently made short, but it never really finds its footing. The laughs feel forced and the dark tone feels unnatural…
Posted on December 1, 2008 by Brad Wilke
P.O.V.
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
“P.O.V.” is a short film written and directed by Tawan Bazemore that opens with an Angelina Jolie look-alike, alone in a room, melodramatically playing the piano (she’s blind)…
Posted on November 30, 2008 by Brad Wilke
HOLLYWOOD JEROME
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
Director Frey Hoffman is able to deftly translate Yusef’s poetry into darkly comical vignettes that trace the progress of young Jerome (Ishmael Hatter) as he finds himself far from home and out of luck…
Posted on November 29, 2008 by Brad Wilke
THURSDAY MARKET
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
With a little more attention to story and character development, “Thursday Market” could have been a great movie. As is, it is merely good…
Posted on November 27, 2008 by Brad Wilke
GOD’S COUNTRY
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 15 minutes |
Filled with pretentious, rhyming dialogue and shot in black and white, “God’s Country” wears its ambitions on its sleeve… and, ultimately, falls woefully short…
Posted on November 25, 2008 by Brad Wilke
DAY LABOR
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 12 minutes |
Following an energetic opening title sequence, the short quickly loses momentum…
Posted on November 24, 2008 by Brad Wilke
A BAKERY STORY
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 21 minutes |
You’d think that with a homo/hetero love triangle, death by bread dough and cookies made with a “secret” ingredient you’d be engrossed from the start and unable to tear your eyes from the screen, right?
Posted on November 23, 2008 by Brad Wilke
FAN MAIL
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 5 minutes |
Utilizing a compelling first-person narrator, Christensen manages to show what it is like in the head of an ardent fan as he sits down to write a torturous fan letter to a cinematic hero…
Posted on November 22, 2008 by Brad Wilke
THE CREEK (DVD)
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 85 minutes |
“The Creek” wants to have its film logic and eat it, too. And because it breaks its own rules, it keeps the audience guessing in all the wrong ways…
Posted on November 21, 2008 by Brad Wilke
SACRILEGE
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 9 minutes |
More a filmed actor’s workshop than a short film, “Sacrilege” goes nowhere…
Posted on November 19, 2008 by Brad Wilke
THE LAST SUNRISE
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 11 minutes |
The actors aren’t acting so much as chewing all the scenery they can get their hands on, and the abysmal dialogue gives them very little to work with in the first place…
Posted on November 10, 2008 by Brad Wilke
