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By | April 2002
You know how sometimes your memory of a film is better than the actual film?
You know how sometimes your memory of a film is better than the actual film? I don't think anything fits this description better than the Morty Fineman...
Is there a more say-nothing tag line than the one adorning the advertising for "The Rookie"? "From the studio that brought you 'Remember the Titans'"--as...
Some people will do anything for fame. In today's reality-entertainment saturated world, it was only a matter of time before someone like Noemi Zeigler...
Only four days remain before the arranged wedding between Aditi Verma (Vasundhara Das) and Hemant Rai (Parvin Dabas), and the entire Verma family and their...
Hal Hartley films are an acquired taste and one that I will admit, has eluded me. So, if you liked "Amateur" or "Flirt" or "Henry Fool" then his latest,...
"Panic Room" is the ultimate example of Hollywood's obsession with the high concept: A divorced woman and her daughter move into a new house with a "panic...
It is impossible to say whether the premise or its execution is more fatal in "Death to Smoochy." One would expect something greater out of the talents...
This animated short stars deadpan magician Morto, who performs "tricks." Trouble is that every magic trick seems to involve gruesome death. When Morto...
This mockumentary short begins with amateur filmmaker Jonah Kaplan getting used to the "record" button on his digital camera. And for some reason he is...
Perhaps the most shockingly hilarious short I've seen in years, "Pleasureland" explores a normal schlub's obsession with a particular section of the video...