I AM NOT A HIPSTER
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! “I Am Not a Hipster” is the kind of film you want to see again and for as deep and personal as it feels, it’s also highly entertaining and quite funny as well…
Posted on January 11, 2013 by Don R. Lewis
METHOD TO THE MADNESS OF JERRY LEWIS (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 116 minutes |
A surplus number of classic Lewis moments from his 10-year partnership with Dean Martin and his classic solo films are included, and there is also a consideration of his work as a director – including insight into his creation of the video assist technology that became standard equipment in film production…
Posted on January 11, 2013 by Phil Hall
ZERO DARK THIRTY
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 157 minutes |
“Zero Dark Thirty” is truly one of the best films of 2012. In my list, it is the best…
Posted on January 11, 2013 by Elias Savada
GANGSTER SQUAD
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 113 minutes |
These men wear the uniform of the 40s Supercop. That’s because they are superheroes.
Posted on January 10, 2013 by Jessica Baxter
MAUDE
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 7 minutes |
Jeremy Jed Hammel’s short film “Maude” has more in common with a music video than it does a traditional short. Which is to say that very little happens beyond Maude dancing around to the background music. On the plus side, it captures the vibrant energy and innocence of youth…
Posted on January 9, 2013 by Mark Bell
THE IMPOSSIBLE
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 114 minutes |
Several days after the screening, I still can’t wash away the film’s awful images of bodies bouncing down liquid obstacle courses teeming with swaying power-lines, propane tanks, and pick-up trucks…
Posted on January 9, 2013 by KJ Doughton
BRINGING UP BOBBY
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 95 minutes |
What keeps Bobby from catapulting toward David Lynchland, and landing in Rod Serling’s “Twilight Zone” is subtlety—and an elasticized universal-hold in reality that pulls us back when we go too far the other way…
Posted on January 8, 2013 by Amy R. Handler
THE MAIDS
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 24 minutes |
Since the source material is a play from Jean Genet, I understand the idea to let the entire experience play out in dialogue and close-up performance, and in spots Hull is up to the task, but it would’ve benefited from a much shorter running time…
Posted on January 8, 2013 by Mark Bell
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 84 minutes |
There are some nice spins on old high school clichés and enough off-center characters and good, occasionally great, dialogue (including lines about Betty Crocker/Betty Ford and bitchforks) that should make “Struck by Lightning” one of the year’s early hits in the art house market…
Posted on January 7, 2013 by Elias Savada
POETRY OF RESILIENCE
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 40 minutes |
Each poet offers a distinctive view of the terror that destroyed his or her respective homeland.
Posted on January 6, 2013 by Phil Hall
SECRET EVERYTHING
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 75 minutes |
You don’t have to like the main characters, necessarily, to enjoy a film, and for reasons I’m still trying to figure out, I found the film pretty intriguing. I must admit I was nonplussed with much of the opening (it seemed like a film that was experimental for no other reason than to pad out the running time), but I couldn’t help but note how invested I was in figuring out how it all wrapped up…
Posted on January 5, 2013 by Mark Bell
THE WORM HUNTERS
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 52 minutes |
There are 6,000 known species of earthworms, and perhaps several thousand that have yet to be identified…
Posted on January 5, 2013 by Phil Hall
LITTLE RED
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 83 minutes |
Oddly enough, the film has a whimsical nature to a story that could be callously dismissed as being about a homeless runaway that is stalked by an increasingly aggressive pedophile. It’s strange, but for as dark as the subject matter can get, the film still maintains that air of innocence and separation…
Posted on January 4, 2013 by Mark Bell
RIPHOUSE 151: COULD’VE BEEN’S & WANNA BE’S
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 102 minutes |
From my perspective, not knowing the band, or knowing of them, I continue to marvel at how unfortunately common the tale of near-success is for so many bands. As a fan myself of numerous bands that I thought would breakout, but never did and instead disappeared, I understand the need for closure, as a fan, with the story of those bands. Likewise, I can understand the band’s need to finally get their story on the record…
Posted on January 4, 2013 by Mark Bell
MAYBE TOMORROW
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 93 minutes |
While all the actors in the film hold their own, this film lives and dies by the performance of writer-director Michael Wolfe as Russ. His emotional range is what keeps the film dynamic…
Posted on January 3, 2013 by Mark Bell