BOOK OF LORE / GRAVE MISTAKES DOUBLE FEATURE
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes / 85 minutes |
All in all, someone seeking out “so bad it’s good” entertainment would be advised to look elsewhere, because both movies are genuinely good…
Posted on April 24, 2010 by Mike Watt
THE GOOD SISTERS
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 85 minutes |
“The Good Sisters” is the mature and thoughtful third feature from JimmyO and April Burril, hot on the heels of their successful cult film, “Chainsaw Sally.”There were many different routes JimmyO could have taken with this story and the easiest way out would have been sheer exploitation…
Posted on April 3, 2010 by Mike Watt
MIND FLESH
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 75 minutes minutes |
If it weren’t for the hallucinations, London cabbie Chris would consider his life boring…
Posted on March 30, 2010 by Mike Watt
LONDON BETTY
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
“Billy’s friends were assholes, but so was he. And you stick by your friends…”
Posted on September 16, 2008 by Mike Watt
THE DUELING ACCOUNTANT
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
An immensely enjoyable absurdist comedy, “The Dueling Accountant” tells the story of corporate business, ancient feuds, the hypocrisy of family and how your life never ends up the way you planned…
Posted on September 14, 2008 by Mike Watt
PRETTY
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 15 minutes |
As a culture, we put too much emphasis on the body, on the physical, which is really Quigley’s character’s only refuge. This is a short well-worth checking out…
Posted on July 19, 2008 by Mike Watt
RANDOM ACTS OF MIKE WATT: SHOOTING A LOW BUDGET PICTURE
So we’ve returned, bruised, battered and weary, perhaps wiser, from the wilds of Rochester, NY. A few months ago, Amy was recruited to take part in a new movie for Low Budget Pictures, helmed by LBP’s generalissimo, Chris Seaver. In a moment of madness, Chris asked me to take a part as well. Now, we’ve [...]
Posted on June 10, 2008 by Mike Watt
COUP DE GRACE
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 88 minutes |
Beautifully-photographed on 35mm, “Coup De Grace” is a mannered, sometimes esoteric, deliberately-paced drama about a woman at a crossroads in her life…
Posted on June 4, 2008 by Mike Watt
THE LOST (DVD)
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 119 minutes |
Ultimately, “The Lost” is much more than the sum of its parts and is definitely worth repeated viewings if only for the remarkable depth of storytelling and use of quiet moments to underscore the louder ones…
Posted on April 10, 2008 by Mike Watt
RANDOM ACTS OF MIKE WATT – 3:10 TO IDIOCY
I do not understand Hollywood’s love of remakes. Not in the slightest. Americanizing Japanese horror aside, where the theory is that Americans hate and loathe and fear subtitles and therefore will not sit through foreign films no matter how many long-haired scary little girls there are, so we must add white faces and subtract every [...]
Posted on January 21, 2008 by Mike Watt
RANDOM ACTS OF MIKE WATT: ATTACK OF THE ATHEISTS
“Why don’t we trust readers? Why don’t we trust filmgoers? Oh, it causes me to shake my head with sorrow that such nitwits could be loose in the world.” ““ Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy. So the Catholic League is at it again. They’re calling for a sight-unseen boycott of The [...]
Posted on November 29, 2007 by Mike Watt
ON EVERY CORNER
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Year Released: 2207 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 0 minutes |
They’re not panhandlers—make no mistake. The street performers of Pittsburgh want to make that perfectly clear. This is their job. They stake out high-traffic corners in front of shops and on bridges and sing, play a variety of instruments, juggle, dance and generally do their best to entertain the passersby…
Posted on September 5, 2007 by Mike Watt
RANDOM ACTS OF MIKE WATT: HOW I DIDN’T SPEND MY SUMMER VACATION.
Since we spent our summer shooting our new movie, we haven’t had much of an opportunity to actually watch many movies, much to the chagrin of my Netflix list. The only thing that keeps depression at bay is that this summer has, for the most part, sucked for movies. I say that like it’s some [...]
Posted on August 29, 2007 by Mike Watt
RANDOM ACTS OF MIKE WATT: “THE WORST MOVIE EVER MADE!!”
It’s a well-known fact: I hate people. You might argue: aw, come on, people ain’t so bad. Sure, not as far as diseases go”¦ There are many, many lovely individuals I am fond of. I even love these lovelies. They will be the ones to whom I will open my compound to when the zombies [...]
Posted on August 1, 2007 by Mike Watt
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 127 minutes |
Lucky for we of the cynical film-reviewing nature, “At World’s End” is actually worth the hoopla and moolah…
Posted on May 28, 2007 by Mike Watt
