Monthly Archives: April 2008

NAKED BENEATH THE WATER (DVD)

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You can almost sense a filmmaker’s nervous breakdown happening behind the camera and that makes this movie all the more unsettling to digest…

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NAKED BENEATH THE WATER (DVD)

Reality television gets even more extreme with “Public Enemy,” a phony (but spookily possible somewhere in the near future) TV show featured in this...

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THE NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS (DVD)

One of the greatest films of the 1980s is finally on DVD: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s “The Night of the Shooting Stars.” If you’ve never seen...

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THE STRAWBERRY PATCH

Yes, "The Strawberry Patch" doesn't have the most linear plot line, but who cares? The team of Andy Hass, Aaron Scott, Holly Adams, and Sabrina Crare...

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WERE YOU WATCHING, TOO?

Honest to god, this isn't an attempt at a plug of any kind, but "Attack of the Show!" is one of my new favorite guilty pleasures. If you were watching last...

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THE POWER OF WIKIPEDIA…

For years, I was puzzled as to what name Bastian screams at the end of "The Neverending Story." Thanks to Wikipedia, and a clip from YouTube to confirm, I...

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THEN SHE FOUND ME

Helen Hunt's directorial debut begins as a probing drama, a tone captured by the likes of Raymond Carver and Andre Dubus and brought to the screen by...

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DEAD FURY

Never has “fury” been deader. This horror parody is shamelessly cartoonish, as it uses animation akin to old-school Nintendo. No lie: the characters'...

"TETRIS – THE MOVIE" TRAILER

The plot of "Robot Jox" mixes with the plot of "Kickboxer" to bring us the long-anticipated film adaptation of the classic game "Tetris." Would it really...

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KENNY

Warning: this film will have your mind in the toilet for days. The titular character of this Aussie faux documentary delivers, sets up, and “manages”...

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CHOP SHOP

“Chop Shop” is set in Queens, New York, but it might as well exist on Mars. The Iron Triangle of Willets Point - its 20 block cluster of auto shops...

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