THE SASQUATCH GANG
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 84 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! Amidst lazy summer days of laser-tag and medieval sword-fighting, Gavin Gore and his group of nerdy friends discover what appear to be Bigfoot tracks…
Posted on December 1, 2007 by Sally Foster
THE UNFORESEEN
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 88 minutes |
2007 AFI FILM FESTIVAL FEATURE! Dunn’s “The Unforeseen” is inspiring in its examination of the power of the individual to fight for environmental preservation. In the same breath, however, the film is utterly frightening in its depiction of the dire fate of our natural resources…
Posted on November 6, 2007 by Sally Foster
CONFESSIONS OF A SUPERHERO
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 89 minutes |
2007 AFI FILM FESTIVAL FEATURE! Ogens’ documentary style in “Confessions of a Superhero” delves so successfully into the separate lives of these four individuals that it would be impossible to make a generalized statement about the people who do this for a living…
Posted on November 5, 2007 by Sally Foster
MY KID COULD PAINT THAT
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 81 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! In “My Kid Could Paint That,” Bar-Lev poses all kinds of fascinating questions not only about the nature of Marla’s art, but about the nature of his own documentary as an art form as well…
Posted on October 6, 2007 by Sally Foster
MANUFACTURING DISSENT
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 96 minutes |
2007 SXSW SPOTLIGHT PREMIERES DOCUMENTARY FEATURE! For a documentary about a man who has evoked volumes in the way of conversation and debate, “Manufacturing Dissent” is a surprisingly simple film to sum up, and I can do it in just one word: boring…
Posted on March 16, 2007 by Sally Foster
BUGMASTER
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
2007 SUNDANCE SPECTRUM FEATURE! “Bugmaster” may have some visually powerful moments, but ultimately comes together to form a story that is incomprehensible by the end…
Posted on January 22, 2007 by Sally Foster
AN AMERICAN CRIME
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 92 minutes |
2007 SUNDANCE PREMIERE FEATURE! Something like watching a train wreck, “An American Crime” is both morbidly riveting and psychologically sickening – definitely not a film for the weak of heart…
Posted on January 22, 2007 by Sally Foster
TV JUNKIE
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 107 minutes |
AFI FILM FEST 2006 REVIEW! “TV Junkie” is by no means easy to sit through, but will leave you with a whole new understanding of the complexities of addiction…
Posted on November 2, 2006 by Sally Foster
THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 105 minutes |
IN THEATERS! Ever surreal and intensely visual, director/screenwriter Michel Gondry’s “The Science of Sleep” proves nearly impossible to describe in mere words…
Posted on September 29, 2006 by Sally Foster
AMERICAN HARDCORE
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 98 minutes |
IN THEATERS! Based on the book by screenwriter Steven Blush, “American Hardcore” chronicles the hardcore punk movement that emerged in underground clubs in the late 1970s and early ’80s…
Posted on September 20, 2006 by Sally Foster
SMALL TOWN GAY BAR
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 81 minutes |
SCREENING AT OUTFEST 2006! In a time when gay rights are still very much at the forefront of political discussion, there are few places where the struggle is more evident than the Bible Belt of America…
Posted on July 4, 2006 by Sally Foster
FUCK
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
SXSW 2006 REVIEW! Directed and produced by Steve Anderson, “Fuck” explores the issues that surround this most infamous of profanities…
Posted on March 23, 2006 by Sally Foster
TALES OF THE RAT FINK
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
SXSW 2006 REVIEW! Ron Mann’s “Tales of the Rat Fink” reconstructs the life of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth through the use of first-person narration, featuring John Goodman as the voice of Roth…
Posted on March 23, 2006 by Sally Foster
MAXED OUT
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
In “Maxed Out,” director/producer James Scurlock collects interviews with a variety of people, including debt collectors, experts and the individuals affected by debt. The end result is an alarming expose on the realities of this epidemic…
Posted on March 23, 2006 by Sally Foster
DAYLIGHT HOLE
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: G Running Time: 6 minutes |
In his first short film, Director Matt Palmer plays a sound man who
ventures into an empty cave to record the trickling sounds of the water that runs underground…
Posted on January 29, 2006 by Sally Foster