THE JEWS AND THE LONGEST KISS IN HISTORY
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 60 minutes |
The film is rich with interviews of many Sudan-born Jews who reflect with rueful happiness on their lives in pre-independent Sudan…
Posted on April 12, 2012 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: BOY
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil falls over a long-forgotten Jerry Lewis turd…
Posted on April 6, 2012 by Phil Hall
FLAMINGOS
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
The dialogue rattles with emotional, financial, sexual and intellectual power struggles that become more desperate and demanding within their too-tight settings…
Posted on April 5, 2012 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: SNACK BAR
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil hangs out at the concession stand…
Posted on March 30, 2012 by Phil Hall
GENERAL ORDERS NO. 9 (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 72 minutes |
The filmmaker reportedly spent 11 years putting this film together – and for the unlucky viewer, sitting through this numbing and pointless work can seem like an 11-year stretch…
Posted on March 29, 2012 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: 3 RING CIRCUS
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil hits the big top with Dean, Jerry and Zsa Zsa…
Posted on March 23, 2012 by Phil Hall
AN ENCOUNTER WITH SIMONE WEIL
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 85 minutes |
Although Weil’s story is compelling, many of her actions – including her fatal refusal to eat food after being diagnosed with tuberculosis – are often too cryptic to understand. Either that, or the film makes a poor case in trying to decipher her enigma…
Posted on March 19, 2012 by Phil Hall
INGELORE (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 40 minutes |
Stiefel’s production, which was broadcast on HBO last year, is both heartbreaking for the pain that Ingelore endured and invigorating for her resilient display of indefatigable spirit…
Posted on March 18, 2012 by Phil Hall
LION WOMEN
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 52 minutes |
The film chronicles the ongoing efforts by female lawyers, journalists, professors and activists to address gender inequality in Iran, and the bravery of the women featured here is certainly commendable…
Posted on March 17, 2012 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: THE CANDY KID
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil hangs with someone who is not Charlie Chaplin…
Posted on March 16, 2012 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: THE HOWARD STERN SHOW
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil celebrates one of the funniest TV comedy shows of all time…
Posted on March 9, 2012 by Phil Hall
LIVING WITH THE TIGER (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 84 minutes |
The cruelty that the Baan Gerda children suffered at the hands of idiot communities and hostile families is thoroughly sickening…
Posted on March 8, 2012 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil hits the obstacle course with Gabe Kaplan and Telly Savalas…
Posted on March 2, 2012 by Phil Hall
AFTER HAPPILY EVER AFTER
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 54 minutes |
Alas, the film is betrayed by the director’s insistence on being the center of attention…
Posted on February 25, 2012 by Phil Hall
IN THE NAME OF THE FAMILY: HONOR KILLINGS IN NORTH AMERICA
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 60 minutes |
But while problems in assimilation by immigrant communities is hardly not unusual, the level of hostility presented in this film gives the impression that too many Islamic families who come to this continent are stuck in a vicious, medieval time warp…
Posted on February 25, 2012 by Phil Hall