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TOBACCO MONEY FEEDS MY FAMILY

By | October 2004

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION REVIEW! It would seem that NASCAR has gone smokeless for a reason…

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TOBACCO MONEY FEEDS MY FAMILY

NASCAR stock car racing is arguably the fastest growing and most popular spectator sport in America. Racing folklore holds that stock car racing was born...

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HOME OF THE BRAVE

The name of Viola Liuzzo may not be familiar today, but nearly four decades ago she occupied a central place in the American psyche. Liuzzo was the only...

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THE SCREAMERS: LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO SEPT 2ND 1978 (DVD)

During the late 1970s, the L.A. group The Screamers were among the early players in the first wave of punk rock. While The Screamers made a film (the...

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THE MACHINIST

You can add Christian Bale to the list of attractive actors who wreak havoc on their beautiful bodies in order to prove themselves as serious thespians. If...

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AFTERMATH: THE REMNANTS OF WAR

Milton’s epic Lucifer was far more successful than his (her?) wildest imagination with the advent of “modern” warfare where, if the battles don’t...

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DEVILS ARE DREAMING

It is usually pretty easy to summarize different categories of debut filmmakers. There are those few that come out of nowhere with something so unique and...

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NIGHT DEMONS

It never occurred to me until I was watching "Night Demons" that I don’t know what gunfire actually sounds like. I’ve heard shotguns and rifles, sure,...

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THE GRUDGE

Given the recent spate of sub-par American horror movies, it’s hardly surprising that domestic studios are looking increasingly to their more inspired...

ED BARREVELD HAS SOME STORIES TO TELL

With three documentaries in the can (Aftermath: The Remnants of War; "Shipbreakers"; Bruce and Me) and another ("A Whale of Tale") in final edit, it...

THE BOOTLEG FILES: “BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA”

For many years, I kept hearing about how the 1952 comedy "Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla" was among the worst films ever made. Due entirely to its...

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