RED LIGHTS
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 119 minutes |
2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL PREMIERES SELECTION! This could have been a fun, “X-Files”-esque exploration of paranormal phenomena. Instead, it is an extremely earnest failure that is still fun to watch, but only because of the unintended laughs…
Posted on February 6, 2012 by Whitney Borup
HELLO I MUST BE GOING
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 95 minutes |
2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL U.S. DRAMATIC FEATURES SELECTION! While “Hello I Must Be Going” might not offer any life changing moral lessons, it is a glimpse into family life and relationships that any film lover can appreciate…
Posted on January 28, 2012 by Whitney Borup
YOUR SISTER’S SISTER
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT SELECTION! It’s unusual to see sisters portrayed as loving and supportive, and it’s even more unusual to see that relationship at the center of a film…
Posted on January 24, 2012 by Whitney Borup
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 128 minutes |
2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHTS SELECTION! This hopeless, dirty, consumptive world is what makes the book so interesting, and what this adaptation capitalizes on…
Posted on January 22, 2012 by Whitney Borup
ROBOT & FRANK
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL PREMIERES SELECTION! “Robot and Frank” is cute. Frank is cute, the robot is cute, and everything they do together is cute…
Posted on January 22, 2012 by Whitney Borup
THE MILKMAN
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 5 minutes |
At five minutes, this high school film class project really captures what is great about horror: plot is unnecessary, the worse the acting the better, oppressive (read: nighttime) lighting, and the suggestion of gore…
Posted on August 22, 2011 by Whitney Borup
PIRATES VS. NINJAS
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 5 minutes |
At any rate, the world has been waiting on pins and needles to see who would win in a fight: pirates or ninjas?!
Posted on August 22, 2011 by Whitney Borup
THE MACHINE
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 19 minutes |
Not being a time travel expert, my knowledge of the film’s accuracy is limited, though it seems that Poole did his homework…
Posted on August 11, 2011 by Whitney Borup
GIRL DU JOUR
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 37 minutes |
The story of an ex-call girl with insomnia could be a potentially interesting subject, but the film just never connects…
Posted on August 11, 2011 by Whitney Borup
HELLO CALLER
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 6 minutes |
The film is the perfect length, perfect tone, and has a wonderful surprise ending. In short, I loved it…
Posted on August 9, 2011 by Whitney Borup
DADA
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 12 minutes |
The sepia tones are pleasing to the eye, and the nods at modernist art are fun, but the short seems amateurish when it goes for the easy laughs and fails to produce them…
Posted on August 8, 2011 by Whitney Borup
THE CAPTIVUS
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 15 minutes |
We never know the details of the mission, why they were chosen for this mission, and what year it is, but it doesn’t matter. What matters is the relationship these men have formed over the years and how they relate to each other in the end…
Posted on August 8, 2011 by Whitney Borup
CABBIE
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 12 minutes |
Everybody has a dream. Some of us dream of being actresses in Hollywood, while some of us want to be millionaires. The subject of Donlee Brussel’s mockumentary, “Cabbie,” has a very simple dream: he wants to be a cab driver…
Posted on August 7, 2011 by Whitney Borup
ALL YOUR FAULTS ARE IN ME
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 19 minutes |
Director Robert van Halteren has crafted a beautiful little story here, using competent actors and high production quality to tell the story of a marriage unraveling…
Posted on August 6, 2011 by Whitney Borup
POSITION AMONG THE STARS
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 111 minutes |
2011 LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! “Position Among the Stars” is absolutely stunning from beginning to end. A perfect film…
Posted on June 18, 2011 by Whitney Borup