COME TO VENUS MELANCHOLY
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  Year Released: 1997 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 21 minutes |
Margaret was once human, but when confronted with a terminal disease and the choice to live forever as a machine, she made the choice for life…
Posted on August 14, 2000 by James Sweeney
AGONY
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  Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 17 minutes |
Parts of the film seem like a pointed homage to Bruce Campbell’s “Evil Dead” antics…
Posted on August 12, 2000 by James Sweeney
ASTROTURF
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Year Released: 1997 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 6 minutes |
We begin in 70,000 BC with a caveman looking every bit like a devolved and twisted Mayor McCheese…
Posted on August 9, 2000 by James Sweeney
MT. OLYMPUS DRIVE
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  Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 5 minutes |
I can’t help laughing when Nittoli’s nastier characters smack-up the weaker ones, each blow verbally punctuated with a Brooklyn-tinged “Ehn! Ehn! Ehn!”
Posted on June 1, 2000 by James Sweeney
JUNKY
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  Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 5 minutes |
A rather unhealthy relationship between a man and his parrot…
Posted on June 1, 2000 by James Sweeney
COUNTERFEIT
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  Year Released: 1997 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 50 minutes |
A hired killer wants out of the killing business after his best friend and partner is fatally shot in the film’s initial gunplay. Things don’t go as planned for either party…
Posted on May 24, 2000 by James Sweeney
SCARY TEXAS MOVIE
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Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 84 minutes |
There’s something to be said for a cleverly descriptive title that doesn’t reveal too much about the movie. Sometimes it even pays to be somewhat misleading. This film, for instance, is never particularly scary, but director Brad Keller can perhaps be forgiven for not wanting to label his film or allow it to be stereotyped sight unseen…
Posted on March 21, 2000 by James Sweeney
OUT OF SEASON
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Year Released: 1998 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 98 minutes |
In a film featuring a romance between two lesbians, some may be ready to dispense with the more mundane points of film criticism and ask “Do they get it on?” Well the answer is “yes,” but if you fast-forward to that particular scene you’ll be missing most of a compelling film with solid performances and largely unconventional characters…
Posted on March 20, 2000 by James Sweeney
A HOLE IN THE HEAD
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Year Released: 1998 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 55 minutes |
Several moments in this film are truly mind-blowing (forgive the pun), such as when the self-trepanned subjects speak in detail about the thoughts and emotions experienced while drilling into their own skulls. More than one expresses the terror mixed with elation they felt as they penetrated the layers of bone…
Posted on March 20, 2000 by James Sweeney
NOT ONE LESS
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Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 106 minutes |
Wei Minzhi is a thirteen year old girl who has applied for and been given the job of substitute teacher in a small rural village…
Posted on March 10, 2000 by James Sweeney
REJECTED BY VULTURES
I will say that Ike has injected some clever dialog into the film and a quaint Planet Of The Apes-inspired dream sequence…
Posted on March 2, 2000 by James Sweeney
THE HONEY POT
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Year Released: 1997 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 7 minutes |
After an innocuous beginning documenting the honey harvesting process, the honey itself is followed (Slacker style) into a supermarket, then a den of iniquity where it is used as a prop for a porn film…
Posted on January 15, 2000 by James Sweeney
THE INNER VOICE
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  Year Released: 1995 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 95 minutes |
When Johnny is approached by his shady producer Leon for up-front capital and considers dipping into his wife’s earnings behind her back, it soon becomes clear that a man’s inner voice is often seriously conflicted…
Posted on January 10, 2000 by James Sweeney
TUMBLEWEEDS
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Year Released: 1999 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 102 minutes |
Is Mary Jo doomed to repeat her past mistakes with Ava along for the ride, or can their love for each other help Mary Jo muster enough courage to break the destructive pattern? Uh, hmmm… what do you think?
Posted on December 23, 1999 by James Sweeney
THE UGLIEST FOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD (WITHOUT A DOUBT)
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Year Released: 1999 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 14 minutes |
Bad, offensive, and obscenely expensive (if not merely obscene) art is an enduring staple of the modern American campus landscape…
Posted on December 20, 1999 by James Sweeney