Monthly Archives: January 2007

DESTINY MANIFESTO

By | January 2007

2007 SUNDANCE SHORT! “Destiny Manifesto” explores the effects of the Western world on the Eastern world through time, through Manifest Destiny, the notion that asserted the US was destined to expand, and we’ve practiced such a theory from the very beginning…

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DESTINY MANIFESTO

2007 SUNDANCE SHORT! Two recurring themes in this years short film festival are Hurricane Katrina and the war, and why not? Both situations are still very...

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SAG AWARDS, GOLDEN GLOBES… WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

The 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were handed out, and the show offered up little surprises, being an almost-exact repeat of the 2007 Golden Globe...

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BLACK SNAKE MOAN

Southern hospitality sees a whole new light in this pulpy romp. Mixing blues with one woman’s intense carnal obsession, “Black Snake Moan” is the...

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BLAME IT ON FIDEL

2007 SUNDANCE WORLD DRAMATIC COMPETITION FEATURE! It’s 1970 and the world is in a state of unrest, but Anna is more concerned with table manners and...

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SNOW ANGELS

"Snow Angels" opens with a virtuosic montage of a high school marching band trying to satisfy their grumpy conductor. The whole dynamics of high school can...

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PETER’S PRICE

By the time assistant bank manager Peter Price (Christopher Mur) and his long-ago friend, ex-convict Jake Mahoney (James Aidan McCaffrey) sit down at a...

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TRADE

Convenience, one of the biggest cop-outs in film. It is a device that can be used to further a plot that would otherwise be stuck in the mud at some point,...

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THE GO-GETTER

How many road trip movies of self discovery starring artsy, skinny, white kids that fall in love with unconventionally cute little brown-haired girls do we...

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SMOKIN’ ACES

Just as every stand-up comedian wants to be a rock star and every astronaut wants to be a race car driver, so to does every Hollywood screenwriter want to...

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WINDOWBREAKER

Tze Chun’s short “Windowbreaker” focuses on a suburban Massachusetts neighborhood where a string of break-in robberies has created a sense of jitters...

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