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JOYFUL PARTAKING (DVD)

By | May 2004

Think that an old lady lying in the bushes all day because she’s unable to get herself up is funny? Well, you will. The character also comes to realize her situation as being humorous, so you don’t feel as guilty about laughing at a helpless elderly person…

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JOYFUL PARTAKING (DVD)

In William Moreing's charming "Joyful Partaking," we witness the lonely existence of several suburbanites locked away in their houses, sheltered from the...

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THE LAWS OF ATTRACTION

As a critic, there are numerous times where I have to suspend a prejudice before going into a theater. For instance, when I see the name Ashton Kutcher...

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BLOOD OF THE BEAST

Mama says technology is the DEVIL! And Mama would definitely be right in Georg Koszulinski’s “Blood of the Beast” when the first strand of human...

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ENVY

Remember when the St. Louis Rams won Super Bowl XXXIV? If not, bear with me. Their high-powered offense lit up opposing teams all season during an...

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GODSEND

Minor spoilers ahead When is a horror movie not a horror movie? When it’s a strained, by-the-numbers production that limps to an unlikely conclusion like...

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ELEVATOR MOVIE

One of the best skits on Saturday Night Live in the past few years has to be the one where a group of movie theater patrons suffer through days and days,...

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CHARLIE: THE LIFE AND ART OF CHARLES CHAPLIN (DVD)

There is nothing wrong, per se, with Richard Schickel's documentary "Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin." But there is nothing special about it,...

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ANTIBODY

Now here's a story that's going to make you cringe, deep down inside. Dej Productions, a direct-to-video outlet that's steadily growing in prolificacy,...

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VERN

"Vern" is a strange and memorable documentary short about the posthumous fame of Vernon Kolski, a New York painter whose art career was marked with...

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THE CLAY BIRD

Tareque Masud's "The Clay Bird" is a small, handsomely crafted and deeply sincere feature set in East Pakistan of the late 1960s as the region began to...

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