Monthly Archives: March 2009

SUNSHINE CLEANING

By | March 2009

Beneath its morbid exterior, “Sunshine Cleaning” projects a tender portrait of how people help out others and seek a better life for themselves.

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SUNSHINE CLEANING

Unless Mary Poppins is there as project manager, tidying up life’s spills, stains, and clutter isn’t exactly a fun-filled activity. Picking up after...

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CHICKENFUT

I thought I recognized the name "Unemployed Pictures" when I was leafing through the array of short films on the Chiller Dare 2 Direct 2 contest, and after...

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KNOWING

"Knowing" is an awfully odd duck of a movie. It is also unexpectedly brave, going in directions that the trailers barely hint at and that audiences surely...

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I LOVE YOU, MAN

Just when I thought wedding-centric comedies had run out of narrative steam, writer-director John Hamburg and writer Barry Levin encourage me to reconsider...

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THE EDUCATION OF BERTIE MAE MCCLANAHAN

This film is an attempt to shape someone’s home movies of their cute dog into a loose narrative. Bertie is an energetic little Beagle puppy owned by a...

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DUPLICITY

As cast members in the new spy thriller “Duplicity,” Clive Owen and Julia Roberts make perfect sense. The former possesses a confidence and edge that...

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THE EARLY WORKS OF CHERYL DUNYE (DVD)

From the archetypal studio boss down to the antsy teenagers in the audience, the movies were fashioned as a man's game. With the filmic point of view...

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SONS OF A GUN

Larry, Craig, Lance, and Ubaldo have been evicted from their apartment and are now forced to move from hotel to hotel, sharing one room between the four of...

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THE BOOTLEG FILES: OLYMPIA 52

BOOTLEG FILES 275: “Olympia 52” (Chris Marker’s 1952 documentary on the Helsinki Olympics) LAST SEEN: The film is available on YouTube. AMERICAN...

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THAT EVENING SUN

Imagine, if you will, Hal Halbrook (“Into the Wild”) playing a That’s The Problem With Your Generation sort of old fellow named Abner. If that...

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