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HAUNTING PERPETUALLY DEAD SQUIRRELS

By | April 2002

A likable but oddly ramshackle mockumentary out of Madison, Wisconsin…

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HAUNTING PERPETUALLY DEAD SQUIRRELS

Making a decent haunted house is a little bit like making an independent movie. You've got to have some imagination and hopefully some smarts. You've got...

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DEL FUEGO

Towards the end of "Del Fuego," a character known as Little Miss Tokyo (who works as a physician by day and a stripper by night) sighs unhappily and offers...

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AFTER THE FLOOD

Here's a message to the U.S. Marines currently stationed in Afghanistan: hey guys, if you want to really torture the captured Taliban and Al-Qæda...

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KILLER ME

Every once in a while, a film comes along that reassures me that real filmmakers are actually still out there. It just fills me with a warm feeling that I...

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HIGH CRIMES

What has happened to Carl Franklin? He made such a promising splash with the gritty 1992 crime thriller "One False Move," and followed that up with 1995's...

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NATIONAL LAMPOON’S VAN WILDER

It's been so long since "Animal House" and the heyday of the "Vacation" movies that one wonders if the National Lampoon name still holds any sort of cinema...

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MæLSTROM

I'd heard of the wild reputation building around this film before I had seen it. Still, the vague comments combined with a French-Canadian director of whom...

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BIG TROUBLE

Misadventure comedies are often a hit or miss proposition. The success of the film often depends on the mix of the cast, the premise, and the director's...

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LUCKY BREAK

You know, if there was one important thing missing from "American Me" or HBO's "Oz", I'd have to say it would be musical production numbers. Now, we no...

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CRUSH

The mysteries of female friendship are explored intelligently, if rather conventionally, in John McKay's "Crush." Andie MacDowell once again steps out...

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