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Monthly Archives: June 2009
By | June 2009
The grassroots-style festival is back!
The 2nd Annual Philadelphia Independent Film Festival runs from June 25-28. The grassroots-style festival is back, with screenings in everything from the...
Coffin Joe is back! With origins dating to the mid-60s, this Brazilian cult horror icon (Jose Mojica Marins, who also directed this film and the official...
Aviva Kempner’s documentary “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg” celebrates the career of Gertrude Berg, a long-forgotten pioneer in American entertainment. ...
Get out your Oscar bait! The 2009 Oscars will have 10 Best Picture nominees. Will we see more of the same: illness, Holocaust, historic romance? Or will...
Bob Byington’s “Harmony and Me” is an indie gem that isn’t at all what it appears to be at first glance. There’s a really lame term used to...
I first became aware of Aspergers, a high functioning form of autism, when a contestant on America’s Next Top Model announced she was suffering from it....
Conceived, written, shot, and edited within a 100-hour span for the New York Midnight Competition, the short crime film “Kharon’s Fare,” which clocks...
Canadian Classicks: Porky's [1982] Director: Bob Clark Writer: Bob Clark Starring: Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson, Cyril O'Reily,...
Andy Abrahams Wilson’s documentary “Under Our Skin” focuses on Lyme disease – where it came from, what damage it can do, and (supposedly) why the...
“The Girl From Monaco” is party buddy-comedy, part romantic tragedy. If it had been more of the former than the latter, perhaps I would have liked it....
