SWEET DREAMS
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
Despite not regressing into complete exploitation, “Sweet Dreams” is a video that is about nothing more than the filmmaker exercising his “power” over the medium and the audience…
Posted on October 7, 2004 by Christopher Zinsli
WHEN WILL I BE LOVED
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 81 minutes |
IN THEATERS! At the movie’s start, we watch Ms. Campbell masturbate, her boyfriend participate in a four-way romp in the park, Campbell and a female friend pet and pant behind a sheer curtain in her spacious NYC studio, and Campbell and Weller dry hump on a couch…
Posted on September 20, 2004 by Christopher Zinsli
CRIMINAL
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 87 minutes |
IN THEATERS! The Soderbergh-Clooney posse is back again with the unremarkable caper “Criminal,” a poor man’s “Ocean’s 11…”
Posted on September 15, 2004 by Christopher Zinsli
THE CLEARING
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 91 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! I’m not going to lie; there are half a dozen or so genuinely tense scenes that make “The Clearing” seem, if only for a moment, like a real thriller gussied up in psychological and emotional trappings. But then it releases its grip and returns to its by-the-book plotting on the way to a final act that is, discouragingly, every bit as restrained as the body of the film…
Posted on July 20, 2004 by Christopher Zinsli
STARSHIP TROOPERS 2: HERO OF THE FEDERATION (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 92 minutes |
An Oscar nominee for his effects work on the first “Troopers” and a winner for “Jurassic Park”, Tippett makes a lackluster debut at the helm. But it’s not like anyone helped him out much. Sony gave him about 5% of the original film’s budget and hi-def video instead of film, and scribe Neumeier handed in what feels like a first draft…
Posted on July 2, 2004 by Christopher Zinsli
TURNED OUT: SEXUAL ASSAULT BEHIND BARS
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 56 minutes |
The complex social dynamics that keep the system of institutionalized rape in America’s prisons intact are too intricate to document in less than an hour…
Posted on July 2, 2004 by Christopher Zinsli
LOVE ME IF YOU DARE
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 95 minutes |
First-time writer/director Yann Samuell’s imaginative fantasy sequences progress from crayon-and-marker paper cutouts when Julien and Sophie are children, to fully formed 3D computer graphics when they reach adulthood…
Posted on July 1, 2004 by Christopher Zinsli
I’M NOT SCARED
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 110 minutes |
I’ll admit to not being worldly enough to know whether or not little European boys always run around in their underwear in public, as this movie and many others make it seem, but “I’m Not Scared” manages to convey a truthful approach to the beginning of the end of childhood…
Posted on June 29, 2004 by Christopher Zinsli
LIGHT IS CALLING
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
Director Bill Morrison has made a career of re-shooting decaying film stock and matching it with melancholy scores from composer Michael Gordon. His films tend to either entrance or bore audiences…
Posted on June 21, 2004 by Christopher Zinsli
THE STAIRWAY AT ST. PAUL’S
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
Part giddy performance piece, part temporal experiment, “The Stairway at St. Paul’s” has screened at several festivals and is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser…
Posted on June 17, 2004 by Christopher Zinsli
STATESIDE
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 96 minutes |
IN THEATERS! A romantic comedy crossed with a coming-of-age military historical subplot could have worked well, but he got it all backwards…
Posted on June 7, 2004 by Christopher Zinsli
MEAN GIRLS
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 97 minutes |
IN THEATERS! While “Mean Girls” is a far cry from soap-operatic fare like “The O.C.” its characters do engage in their fair share of backstabbing…
Posted on June 7, 2004 by Christopher Zinsli
THE MISCONCEPTION OF RANDAL BIMFORD
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 12 minutes |
As he waits for the bus, he exchanges patently racist small talk with whichever minority commuter happens to be at the stop…
Posted on June 2, 2004 by Christopher Zinsli
FAIRYTALES FROM OHIO
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 12 minutes |
Obviously, Skapin isn’t very shy about her body, though she does seem afraid to show her face on camera…
Posted on May 27, 2004 by Christopher Zinsli
PERPETUAL MOTION
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 2 minutes |
TRENTON FILM FESTIVAL 2004 REVIEW! This short, the 2003 Student Academy Award Winner for Animation, is an ingenious little film that postulates that cats and jellied toast can be used to create a perpetual motion machine…
Posted on May 22, 2004 by Christopher Zinsli
