DETENTION
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 88 minutes |
2011 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! “Detention” is also not so much a film as it is a list of things. Most of these things aren’t even that awesome…
Posted on June 9, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
THE OFF HOURS
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 93 minutes |
2011 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! In “The Off Hours,” writer/director Megan Griffiths paints a powerfully vivid picture of day-to-day life in a small industrial town that is disrupted by the arrival of a handsome stranger…
Posted on June 6, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
BURKE AND HARE
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 91 minutes |
2011 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTION! If Dickensian ghosts were to have visited Simon Pegg on the set of “Hot Fuzz,” the Future Ghost would have shown him this movie…
Posted on June 4, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD: RE-IMAGINED BY SHADOE STEVENS WITH THE MUSIC OF E.L.O.
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 155 minutes |
2011 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! Combined with the comically broad acting of the silent era, a primordial stew of special effects and a little innocuous racial stereotyping, Shadoe Stevens’ re-imagining of “The Thief of Bagdad” is an instant dorm room classic…
Posted on May 30, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
KILLING BONO
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 114 minutes |
2011 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! Despite having plenty of guns, drugs and danger, the film isn’t really all that dark…
Posted on May 29, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
LOVE
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
2011 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! This film is absolutely a feast for the eyes. In my book, however, looks aren’t enough to win the whole pageant…
Posted on May 24, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
ARTHUR (2011)
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 110 minutes |
It seems like Arthur 2.0 spends a lot more time playing with toys than he does drinking and sleeping with prostitutes. If I didn’t know better, I’d think his irresponsibility isn’t so much due to alcoholism than it is the fact that he has no responsibilities.
Posted on April 8, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
ROOM 4 RENT
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
2011 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL NARRATIVE SHORT SELECTION! [I]f Max Weissberg has managed to pack this much depth into seven-ish minutes, I’d like to see what else he could do…
Posted on March 29, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
JEZ JERZY (GEORGE THE HEDGEHOG)
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 96 minutes |
2011 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL SXFANTASTIC SELECTION! There’s nothing like a cartoon about a degenerate hedgehog to make you feel all warm and fuzzy…
Posted on March 28, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
96 MINUTES
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 93 minutes |
2011 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL NARRATIVE COMPETITION SELECTION! As far as I’m concerned, “Crash” is the most racist, condescending movie ever to win an Academy Award. Knowing that, you can probably surmise my position on “96 Minutes”…
Posted on March 24, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
THE OTHER F WORD
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 98 minutes |
2011 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT PREMIERES SELECTION! These guys aren’t unhappy with the unexpected turns their lives have taken. On the contrary, they seem blissfully happy whenever they spend time with their offspring. They just don’t want to fuck it up…
Posted on March 24, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
AMERICAN ANIMAL
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 95 minutes |
2011 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL NARRATIVE COMPETITION SELECTION! When someone has that much creative control over a film, it’s usually a big, flashing warning sign that says “Vanity Project.” As it happens, it’s not vanity if they’re actually talented…
Posted on March 24, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
KILL LIST
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
2011 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL SXFANTASTIC SELECTION! I rarely feel so elated walking out of a theatre as I did leaving “Kill List.” Now that, my friends, is a fucking movie…
Posted on March 23, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
RED RIDING HOOD
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 120 minutes |
2011 SXSW SPECIAL EVENT SCREENING! In short, the people who love “Twilight” will love “Red Riding Hood.” The people who think “Twilight” is stupid will think the same about this movie…
Posted on March 10, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
HALL PASS
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 105 minutes |
To add insult to insult, the conceit of “Hall Pass” isn’t even original. Whether or not the Farrellys were aware of “The Freebie” when they wrote it, the conceptual similarities cannot be denied…
Posted on February 25, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
