Monthly Archives: August 2004

STANDER

By | August 2004

IN LIMITED RELEASE! I’ll be the first to admit that hearing the phrase, “from the director of ‘Forces of Nature’ and ‘Harriet the Spy’” didn’t exactly make me tingle in anticipation of Bronwen Hughes’ third feature, “Stander.” I’m also the first to admit I was wrong…

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STANDER

Suppose for a second you were a white cop in late ‘70s – early ‘80s Johannesburg, South Africa. Further, speculate that you’d become increasingly...

COLLATERAL

After enduring recent disappointments like "Vanilla Sky" and "The Last Samurai", I was beginning to think that hooking up with a decent project had become...

ROLLERCOASTER

I blame trailers. Not the kind you see in a park that always seem to attract tornadoes, but those two minutes of footage you get that say, hey, here’s...

HIP-HOP FEATURE SCREENS WITH SHORTS

The Hermosa Shorts Film Festival has given a special exemption to the electronic music and DJ documentary "Put the Needle on the Record". The film is the...

CODE 46

Moviemakers who set their films in the future rarely offer pleasant conceptualizations of what our world will be like in the coming years. Blame “Blade...

YARD SALE

The Great American yard sale as a metaphor for taking stock of one’s life? Equating one’s hopes and dreams and biggest disappointments with the toaster...

COLLATERAL

How do you like your assassins? Do you prefer tight-lipped, coldly implacable killers who scare the pants off you with their single-minded ruthlessness...

UNDER NOR CAL

California has a lot of good musical acts. Unfortunately, not many of them are on this documentary, which features various artists from the San Francisco...

ROCKIN’ THIS SUMMER AT DON’T KNOCK THE ROCK

DON'T KNOCK THE ROCK - the three-day rock film and music festival kicks-off on Thursday, August 12 and continues through Sunday, August 15 at the Arclight...

OPEN WATER

What would you do if you found yourself stranded in the middle of the ocean, miles from shore, surrounded by big sharks and no help in sight? That’s what...

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