DINOSAUR VALLEY GIRLS
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  Year Released: 1996 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 94 minutes |
Yes, it is campy fun, the kind Tom Servo regularly dissected on “MST3K,” but that can only carry a movie so far …
Posted on November 9, 2010 by Doug Brunell
SHOOT THE HERO!
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 82 minutes |
If there is any reason to recommend this film, it is to see Jason Mewes step outside the Jay box and play a self-doubting, eager-to-please young man who is trying to grow up…
Posted on October 17, 2010 by Doug Brunell
NORDWAND
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 121 minutes |
I am no expert on mountain climbing films. That said, I think I can safely say this may be the best one you will ever see…
Posted on October 7, 2010 by Doug Brunell
A CABIN IN TIME
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 85 minutes |
Let’s face it, when you are an independent filmmaker and you make something that, had you the talent, connections and money, is mainstream enough to come out of Hollywood, you better dazzle your audience in some fashion…
Posted on September 2, 2010 by Doug Brunell
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 103 minutes |
There are some laughs here. As far as comedies go, this one is aimed strictly at adults. Not because it is profane, but because the comedy comes more from observations of life instead of sight gags and pratfalls…
Posted on August 12, 2010 by Doug Brunell
COCKHAMMER
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  Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 81 minutes |
The plot involves a porn filmmaker, black magic rituals, demons, human sacrifice, stoners, sluts and some of the worst actors I’ve seen in a while…
Posted on June 29, 2010 by Doug Brunell
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 152 minutes |
If you want to look at it from a sociological viewpoint, this film is not a murder mystery, but an examination of how men destroy women and how women cope with it …
Posted on June 18, 2010 by Doug Brunell
VINCENT & LUCIAN
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 15 minutes |
The film’s very apparent conclusion does little to alter how well-acted it is and doesn’t detract from the highly competent use of sound, music and cinematography…
Posted on May 22, 2010 by Doug Brunell
FLEURE BLEU (THE APPRENTICE)
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Year Released: 1971 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 81 minutes |
Yeah, you get to view her breasts (and a few others’, too), but Sarandon fans like to watch her act…
Posted on April 30, 2010 by Doug Brunell
ZALZALA
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 45 minutes |
The film’s other problem, and this is the not the filmmakers’ fault, is that the people who really need to see this won’t. Those who weren’t concerned in the first place probably aren’t going to pick this up. Pakistan might as well be Mars…
Posted on April 2, 2010 by Doug Brunell
WONDER WOMAN: THE JENNIFER WENGER INTERVIEW
Wenger is a natural talent who isn’t afraid to take chances. When I first watched “Confessions of a Superhero,” I thought she would be the one who goes all the way and would actually be able to have a career in the belly of the Hollywood monster…
Posted on March 30, 2010 by Doug Brunell
WHAT IS SHE TO YOU?
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 11 minutes |
Let’s just say that sometimes it’s better to keep your mouth shut…
Posted on March 23, 2010 by Doug Brunell
FLOW
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 84 minutes |
If this documentary doesn’t cause you to rethink what you believe about water, you aren’t watching closely enough. You use it every day and you barely notice it, but there are people paying very close attention to those two facts and they do notice water usage, and what is happening under our noses because of them is the stuff out of nightmares…
Posted on March 21, 2010 by Doug Brunell
WE ALL FALL DOWN
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  Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 92 minutes |
This is not exactly a happy movie, but its overall message is one of hope in the most barren of places…
Posted on February 27, 2010 by Doug Brunell
STAAR: SHE’D RATHER BE A MISTRESS
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 52 minutes |
For a mockumentary to work it has to be believable on some level. If the filmmakers were going for that here, they failed…
Posted on December 2, 2009 by Doug Brunell