ZOMBIE GIRL: THE MOVIE
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 92 minutes |
OFFICIAL SELECTION AFI DALLAS 2009!!!
While always respectful and plainly in admiration of their young subject, “Zombie Girl” co-directors Justin Johnson, Aaron Marshall and Erik Mauck don’t shy away from showing the inevitable conflicts that arise in such an unconventional venture.
Posted on March 27, 2009 by Merle Bertrand
SWIM
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 43 minutes |
As ably documented in “Swim,” the David Broyles and Rush Vanns in the service have more than done their part. It’s time for the rest of us to sink or swim with them…
Posted on July 6, 2008 by Merle Bertrand
THE WILD MAN OF THE NAVIDAD
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 84 minutes |
Just like its models from some thirty or more years ago, “The Wildman of the Navidad” has its share of flaws and weaknesses. It also has a lot of heart and does a perfect job of being the kind of film Meeks and Graves meant for it to be…
Posted on June 30, 2008 by Merle Bertrand
THE VIOLENT KIND
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 87 minutes |
Well acted and photographed in general, this taut, surreal, and slowly unfolding character study is a challenging film that tiptoes right up to the edge of self-indulgence several times, but always catches itself just in time…
Posted on June 12, 2008 by Merle Bertrand
TRIAGE: DR. JAMES ORBINSKI’S HUMANITARIAN DILEMMA
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 88 minutes |
As compelling as it is to watch, “Triage” is not a casual viewing experience. Instead, it’s a haunting, almost visceral experience that’s occasionally – thankfully – relieved by moments of humanity…
Posted on June 6, 2008 by Merle Bertrand
AT THE DEATH HOUSE DOOR
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 98 minutes |
2008 AFI DALLAS PREMIERE SERIES DOCUMENTARY! Whatever one’s feelings about the death penalty, “At the Death House Door” provides a rare insight from inside the death chamber; one the viewer is not soon likely to forget…
Posted on March 31, 2008 by Merle Bertrand
THE LOST COAST
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 74 minutes |
While Ian Scott McGregor, Lucas Alifano and Lindsay Benner turn in solid performances, the real stars here are Nils Kenaston’s Nature Channel-worthy photography and Nathan Matthew David’s moody score…
Posted on March 30, 2008 by Merle Bertrand
SIX MAN, TEXAS
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 71 minutes |
2008 AFI DALLAS FILM FESTIVAL TEXAS COMPETITION DOCUMENTARY! We’re reminded again why the book, movie and television series “Friday Night Lights” took place in Texas and not, say, Rhode Island…
Posted on March 29, 2008 by Merle Bertrand
TIMECRIMES (CRONOSCRIMINES)
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 87 minutes |
2008 SUNDANCE AFTER MIDNIGHT FEATURE FILM! “Timecrimes” is one of the best time travel films to come along in, er, quite some time…
Posted on January 19, 2008 by Merle Bertrand
GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: G Running Time: 98 minutes |
“Girl Who Leapt Through Time” is the sort of film one would be tempted to watch more than once, even without having to go back in time to do so…
Posted on September 28, 2007 by Merle Bertrand
LA BELLE BETE (BEAUTIFUL BEAST)
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 110 minutes |
The disturbing and distasteful “La Belle Bete” will linger in your mind far longer than you’ll probably wish it would…
Posted on September 27, 2007 by Merle Bertrand
ALONE
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 95 minutes |
“Alone” does a good job of wrapping both a mystery and a twisted romance inside its horror trappings…
Posted on September 25, 2007 by Merle Bertrand
BLOOD, BOOBS AND BEAST
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 75 minutes |
Don Dohler will never be a household name in the same way that the mere mention of Ed Wood’s name has entered out national consciousness…
Posted on September 24, 2007 by Merle Bertrand
TEAM EVEREST: A HIMALAYAN JOURNEY
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 111 minutes |
2007 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FEATURE DOCUMENTARY! Though not a particularly good film for those couch potatoes with guilty consciences, this serene and compelling ode to the human spirit is more uplifting than the peak of Mt. Everest itself…
Posted on June 3, 2007 by Merle Bertrand
THE PRISONER, OR: HOW I PLANNED TO KILL TONY BLAIR
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 72 minutes |
War is chaos and confusion even under the best of circumstances, of which this current fiasco clearly ain’t…
Posted on March 24, 2007 by Merle Bertrand