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TALES OF MERE EXISTENCE (DVD)

By | November 2003

Lev is one artist, both in comic-book style and in filmmaking whose brutal honesty about life and the ability to look inward when examining the craziness and the sometimes shallowness of life is something to admire…

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TALES OF MERE EXISTENCE (DVD)

In this DVD, which is basically what I reviewed in the “All Animation Edition” of Microcinema’s Independent Exposure, Lev draws the rest of the...

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BAD MOVIE POLICE (DVD)

There’s a working theory that anything created, by definition, is “art”, and that all art should be appreciated and preserved. With the “Bad Movie...

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THE COOLER

Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is "The Cooler," a man so unrelentingly down on his luck that it's his job to drift amongst any gambler on a hot streak at...

LAIR OF THE SCHLOCK WORM

In the middle of shooting Stabbing, one of your actors moved to another state, leaving no forwarding address and no phone number he could be reached at....

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THE FUSE

Their names are: F1 (drums), F2 (guitar, vocals), F3 (bass). Together, they’re The Fuse, a Los Angeles-based band which is the subject of Jensen Rufe’s...

THE BOOTLEG FILES: “THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL”

The recent death of Art Carney found obituaries citing the beloved actor's triumphant work in films (his Oscar-winning "Harry and Tonto"), theater (as...

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THE HEADHUNTER

This low-key low def video thriller, shot in Chicago, concerns the twisty’n’turny hijinks that ensue when a slacker night watchman, alone in a...

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FAMILY VALUES

Becky and Donna are a lesbian couple living in the Philadelphia area. Donna, a cop, regales her significant other with the story of a particularly gruesome...

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IN AMERICA

The American Dream is alive and well in writer/director Jim Sheridan’s endearing and intimate portrait, “In America.” The film is not so much...

THE CRITIC

Remember the wonderful, horrible life of Jay Prescott Sherman? First appearing on ABC, then Fox, and finally resting his weary feet at Comedy Central only...

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