GRASSROOTS
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 100 minutes |
Though “Grassroots” is, first and foremost, a film for the campaign’s contemporaries, it’s also a call-to-action to modern youth everywhere to get involved in local politics…
Posted on June 22, 2012 by Jessica Baxter
EXTRATERRESTRIAL
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
Nacho Vigalondo’s (“Timecrimes”) latest film is about the people without a heroic bone in their body and what they get up to during the downtime between the shit and the fan…
Posted on June 16, 2012 by Jessica Baxter
JEFF
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 79 minutes |
OAK CLIFF FILM FESTIVAL 2012 SELECTION! The film doesn’t depict Jeffrey Dahmer’s human side, but rather, it shows a very detailed picture of the mask of humanity which he wore every day…
Posted on June 16, 2012 by Jessica Baxter
SUN DON’T SHINE
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
OAK CLIFF FILM FESTIVAL 2012 SELECTION! I can look past many character faults in a compelling story. But there is just something about Crystal that rubs me the wrong way…
Posted on June 15, 2012 by Jessica Baxter
PAUL WILLIAMS STILL ALIVE
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 84 minutes |
There are few things more narcissistic than making a documentary about you, which is probably why Stephen Kessler tried to make it seem like his film is actually about Paul Williams…
Posted on June 15, 2012 by Jessica Baxter
LOLA VERSUS
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 89 minutes |
2012 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! Much of Lola’s floundering would be tedious in the hands of a conventional actress (like a Heigl or a J-Lo). I don’t know how versatile Gerwig is, but she’s damned good at playing affably troubled women…
Posted on June 9, 2012 by Jessica Baxter
SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 85 minutes |
It has a lot of things going go for it… How can you go wrong? Turns out you can’t…
Posted on June 8, 2012 by Jessica Baxter
ROLLER TOWN
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 75 minutes |
2012 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! Fans of “Airplane!”, Stella and The Kids in the Hall will experience a hearty chuckle. But unlike the work of their influences, there isn’t a whole lot in “Roller Town” to revisit…
Posted on June 5, 2012 by Jessica Baxter
EARTHBOUND
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
2012 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! “Earthbound” is a bit of a Dr. Who riff on the hijinks of a lonely alien experiencing modern day Europe. Only, in this case, we’re kept guessing about whether Joe (Rafe Spall) is actually the man who fell to Earth or the one who flew over the cuckoo’s nest…
Posted on June 3, 2012 by Jessica Baxter
MANSOME
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 84 minutes |
If anyone is going to like a documentary about facial hair, it’s me. I’m what you might call a beardthusiast. But Spurlock’s “Mansome” fails to expose any sort of substance behind the follicles…
Posted on May 18, 2012 by Jessica Baxter
THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 124 minutes |
Turns out, it’s not a lot of fun to watch a relationship fall apart even if you know that eventually, everything will turn out just fine…
Posted on April 27, 2012 by Jessica Baxter
SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 76 minutes |
2012 DALLAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! Byington certainly has something to say here, but he leaves it up to the audience to figure out what that is…
Posted on April 12, 2012 by Jessica Baxter
WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 65 minutes |
2012 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! The film is filled with interviews with a multitude of smart, eloquent women explaining what should be evident but is so not: Girls need super heroes because they need to know that their gender is not an obstacle…
Posted on March 31, 2012 by Jessica Baxter
GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 87 minutes |
2012 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! I imagine Mr. Chick as the sort of guy who took Women’s Studies in college specifically to bang the straight ladies in the class. He certainly wasn’t there to learn because there is not one iota of legitimate feminism in “Girls Against Boys”…
Posted on March 31, 2012 by Jessica Baxter
SMALL APARTMENTS
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 94 minutes |
2012 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! Trust me when I tell you that Franklin Franklin is no Ignatius J. Reilly. He’s much, much worse. This makes him 100% unsympathetic and not the least bit fun to watch…
Posted on March 27, 2012 by Jessica Baxter