STEPHANIE, NATHALIE, CAROLINE AND VINCENT
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  Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 75 minutes |
None of the characters feel fully developed and a little extra time with each of them could only have helped…
Posted on August 21, 2006 by Dan Fienberg
BURNING MAN: THE BURNING SENSATION
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  Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 75 minutes |
One of Burning Man’s “rules” is that the festival is for participants only and not spectators. Nohe has made a decent “intro” documentary, but he feels like a spectator and not a participant. Burning Man veterans will likely feel the same way when watching his film…
Posted on August 29, 2003 by Dan Fienberg
REALITY SCHOOL
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 14 minutes |
In honor of Danica McKellar’s recent cameo on “The West Wing,” it’s only fair to look at this bitter satire of reality television…
Posted on November 17, 2002 by Dan Fienberg
PUSSIES FROM OUTTA SPACE
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 13 minutes |
I especially liked the superimposed face of the crying Hot Dog girl over a cow clock showing the passage of time…
Posted on November 16, 2002 by Dan Fienberg
MY BODY’S REVOLTING
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 12 minutes |
Kirkham begins having ethical and internal problems, which reach a climax when his liver and lungs come to life, exit his body and take him hostage…
Posted on November 15, 2002 by Dan Fienberg
SURFACE CALM
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 18 minutes |
AIRING ON STARZ! ENCORE AT 2:30 a.m., October 22! Loftin carries what is essentially a one-woman show with a fine portrayal of compulsive behavior…
Posted on October 18, 2002 by Dan Fienberg
DEATH FACTORY (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 80 minutes |
Folks who fear the Hedgehog will be relieved to know that Ron Jeremy only appears in one scene, remains fully clothed, doesn’t say anything, and gets swiftly murdered…
Posted on September 26, 2002 by Dan Fienberg
ZOMBIE DOOM (DVD)
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Year Released: 1999 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 85 minutes |
“VIOLENT SHIT” RETURNS! It’s like “The Most Dangerous Game” only written by a subliterate…
Posted on September 25, 2002 by Dan Fienberg
FILM SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 82 minutes |
SAN DIEGO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! Critics and fellow filmmakers will recognize that Underdahl knows his stuff and festival audiences will appreciate that the film looks professional. But will anybody outside the community of cinefiles care?
Posted on September 20, 2002 by Dan Fienberg
PREMUTOS: LORD OF THE LIVING DEAD (DVD)
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  Year Released: 1997 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 105 minutes |
“Premutos” is full of severed heads, traumatized testicles, and a generally blasphemous perspective on history…
Posted on September 3, 2002 by Dan Fienberg
ICANSTILLTELLYOURWIFEBILL.COM
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
“ICANSTILLTELLYOURWIFEBILL.COM” isn’t quite a game and it isn’t quite a movie and it’s not quite fiction except that everything in it is entirely made up…
Posted on September 1, 2002 by Dan Fienberg
AT DAWN THEY SLEEP
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Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
There’s a goofy charm to the two vampires shooting their rivals with guns just for fun, wielding two guns at once like the bastard sons of Bram Stoker and John Woo…
Posted on August 31, 2002 by Dan Fienberg
BITTERSWEET LIES
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
The basic premise is a sorta manic-depressive “Breakfast Club…”
Posted on August 28, 2002 by Dan Fienberg
OUT OF THE BLACK
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 107 minutes |
The characters in “Out of the Black” are logical extensions of what happens to a community when it loses its livelihood and when people’s lives no longer have direction…
Posted on August 26, 2002 by Dan Fienberg
VENUS DE MILO
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 81 minutes |
“Venus De Milo” may be the first rock film which leaves you rooting for the band to break up…
Posted on September 2, 2001 by Dan Fienberg
