THE MYSTIC MASSEUR
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  Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 117 minutes |
Occasionally funny, sometimes inspiring, often boring, the magic is minimal in “The Mystic Masseur…”
Posted on December 9, 2003 by Ryan Cracknell
THE NATURE OF NICHOLAS
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
SXSW 2003 NARRATIVE FEATURE! Bobby shows Nicholas that there’s more to life than hanging around in the wheat field. There are girls and pomade and necking…
Posted on March 14, 2003 by Ryan Cracknell
GREENSBORO’S CHILD
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 75 minutes |
Coon has unearthed a disturbing part of America’s past and present…
Posted on March 2, 2003 by Ryan Cracknell
HELL HOUSE
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  Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 85 minutes |
The way many of the kids are portrayed, it raises the question as to whether or not the participants care more about being a part of Hell House or to draw people to the church…
Posted on January 15, 2003 by Ryan Cracknell
BLACK PICKET FENCE
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 92 minutes |
Goes’ greatest strength is his ability to get into the hearts of Tiz and his many other subjects. The result is a brutal honesty rarely captured on film…
Posted on January 14, 2003 by Ryan Cracknell
AFGHAN STORIES
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 59 minutes |
In “Afghan Stories,” a handful of Afghan people finally get a platform…
Posted on January 14, 2003 by Ryan Cracknell
SOYLENT GREEN (DVD)
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Year Released: 1973 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 97 minutes |
Protestors are scooped up and taken away in garbage trucks and a man chooses to die a peaceful death rather than live on in the inhumanity that has consumed the world…
Posted on June 5, 2002 by Ryan Cracknell
THE DARK CRYSTAL (DVD)
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Year Released: 1982 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 93 minutes |
Without a human in sight, Henson’s world is an ambitious mix of dark shadows, strange flora and bizarre creatures. Although it’s made entirely from fabric, plastics and other craft store supplies, this is a place of enchantment…
Posted on June 4, 2002 by Ryan Cracknell
LOGAN’S RUN (DVD)
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Year Released: 1976 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 120 minutes |
Life is all about unrepentant pleasure (read: lots of casual sex). But when the big three-o hits, it’s off to Carousel with you and a chance at Renewal, a modernist take on heaven…
Posted on June 4, 2002 by Ryan Cracknell
