ZERO CHARISMA
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  Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 88 minutes |
2013 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! This is an all-around well-made film that is impossible not to fall in love with, even if you don’t recognize any of the names involved with the production…
Posted on March 19, 2013 by Don Simpson
KELLY + VICTOR
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
2013 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL VISIONS SELECTION! Based on Niall Griffiths’ novel, Kieran Evans’ “Kelly + Victor” is an intense study of the fine line between tenderness and aggression in romantic relationships…
Posted on March 17, 2013 by Don Simpson
CHEAP THRILLS
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 85 minutes |
2013 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL MIDNIGHTERS SELECTION! Pat Healy nails his performance as Craig, providing us with someone who dives headfirst into a cesspool of moral ambiguity. We understand the pressure he is under to provide for his family, we can feel his mental and physical pain…
Posted on March 16, 2013 by Don Simpson
LOVES HER GUN
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 99 minutes |
2013 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT SELECTION! Geoff Marslett’s “Loves Her Gun” studies the fine line between rational and irrational fear, as well as what it means to feel safe. Modern United States culture seems designed to perpetuate fear, whether it be by the government, news networks or entertainment media. Fear and violence cripples us, it makes us crazy, it makes us turn on each other…
Posted on March 16, 2013 by Don Simpson
THE BOUNCEBACK
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 92 minutes |
2013 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT SELECTION! Poyser’s oh-so-frank approach to sexuality goes much further than any Hollywood movie I have ever seen; but it is mimed, so it seems innocent and playful. Let’s just say that I will never look at a baby Tyrannosaurus Rex the same way, ever again…
Posted on March 16, 2013 by Don Simpson
GOOD NIGHT
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 83 minutes |
2013 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT SELECTION! Throw Alex Karpovsky, Todd Berger, Jason Newman and Chris Doubek into a room together and some sort of cinematic magic is going to happen; but there is also no doubt that it is the emotionally dynamic duo of Adriene Mishler and Jonny Mars who turn “Good Night” into something that is truly special…
Posted on March 15, 2013 by Don Simpson
SOME GIRL(S)
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  Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 89 minutes |
2013 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT SELECTION! The actors’ dialogue is meticulously-crafted, as if torn from the pages of classic literature; their brains seem to work on hyper-drive, allowing them to concoct the most perfect response to each other in the matter of milliseconds…
Posted on March 14, 2013 by Don Simpson
THE RETRIEVAL
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 91 minutes |
2013 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL NARRATIVE COMPETITION SELECTION! Eska’s unwavering desire to achieve perfection in his productions doesn’t hurt matters either, because the production quality of “The Retrieval” is damn near flawless…
Posted on March 13, 2013 by Don Simpson
DRINKING BUDDIES
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
2013 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT SELECTION! As a long-time fan of Swanberg’s films, I was admittedly a bit skeptical when I first learned about “Drinking Buddies,” mostly because I did not expect Wilde and her cohorts to be up for the task; but, thankfully, I was proven wrong, and the actors go places that I would never expect studio-seasoned actors to go…
Posted on March 12, 2013 by Don Simpson
