Monthly Archives: April 2008

DARK MATTER

By | April 2008

IN LIMITED RELEASE! This is a great film, to a point. Unfortunately the ending doesn’t deliver, making the entire feature an exercise in wasted potential. But maybe that’s the point…

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DARK MATTER

To set the scene: Liu Xing (Liu Ye) stands in front of Hubble University’s panel giving his theory on an expansion to his professor’s model of the...

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BODY & SOUL: DIANA & KATHY

“Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy” focuses on two women with disabilities who strive to maintain their independence in a society that is often more...

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ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (DVD)

Richard Strauss’ off-kilter opera receives a decidedly peculiar staging in this Zurich Opera production. Claus Guth’s interpretation places the...

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STREET KINGS

If you make it through the first 20 minutes of “Street Kings” and still don’t know who the bad guys will end up being and how everything will end, I...

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THE BOOTLEG FILES: SOUVENIR STRIP OF THE EDISON KINETOSCOPE (SANDOW, THE MODERN

BOOTLEG FILES 228: "Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope (Sandow, the Modern Hercules)” (1894 short starring bodybuilding icon Eugen Sandow). LAST...

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BAD BIOLOGY

The last time “Basket Case” director Frank Henenlotter made a movie, the third entry of his trademark series, the computer graphics boom had just...

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PROM NIGHT (2008)

I don’t know if you can actually call this a remake. After all the ballyhoo from horror geeks bitching about a remake of a rather awful slasher film...

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CONFESSION OF PAIN

Bong's got the P.I. blues, with memories of his pregnant wife's suicide and a drinking problem, to boot. Having left the police force, he assists a...

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THE GRAND INQUISITOR

Doom shrouds every moment of this concise, thrilling little piece. An investigative young woman (Leah Dashe), carrying a box of evidence, approaches the...

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SHOW BUSINESS: THE ROAD TO BROADWAY (DVD)

Dori Berinstein’s documentary traces the creation of four musicals during the 2003-2004 Broadway theater season. On the surface, this quartet has little...

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