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The Biggest Little Farm

By Alan Ng | May 2019

There’s a charm to watching crazy, ambitious people put it all out there for some crazy dream. For me, it’s the idea…

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There’s a charm to watching crazy, ambitious people put it all out there for some crazy dream. For me, it’s the idea of someone attempting to reach...

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Juan Frausto's independent film Possession Diaries clumsily trots out every tired cliched the demonic possession/exorcism subgenres of horror have to...

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In his notes on the film website, director Duncan Coe says A Room Full of Nothing is a break-up letter to Austin: “... a sardonic romance that explores...

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One of the most challenging styles of movies to pull off are films that center on people talking, discussing, and having conversations. The success rate is...

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I recently lamented that the music-based documentary Boom! A Film About The Sonics told a story not worth discussing. That film did not have any stakes or...

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What are the limits of a brotherly bond? If you knew that your sibling did something terribly wrong, would you go against everything you stood for to...

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SXSW 2020 FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! There is this fragility to life. I’m not referring to life and death, but the small, yet seemingly unimportant, choices...

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Who Will Write Our History is a part-documentary/part-feature project by acclaimed filmmaker Roberta Grossman. It is based on the book by Samuel Kassow...

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When I think of films that sensitively approach the subject of abortion and women’s rights, Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake and Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3...

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In the brief period when someone actually trusted me to teach or mentor about various subjects, my consistent piece of advice was, “you have to master...

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