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THE ELUSIVE PYGMY HIPPOPOTAMUS

By | April 2001

This film begins with the most outlandish set-up imaginable. A whiny off-screen teenager (the director’s daughter) is complaining that she can’t finish a term paper on the pygmy hippopotamus…

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THE ELUSIVE PYGMY HIPPOPOTAMUS

There's nothing like a well-made nature documentary...and Tom Naygrow's "The Elusive Pygmy Hippopotamus" is absolutely nothing like a well-made nature...

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EVERYTHING MOVES ALONE

"Everything Moves Alone" is a loose-limbed, breezy comedy which racks up amazing mileage with a minimum of budget and an endless supply of charm. This is...

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LOST GIRL

The less said about "Lost Girl," the better. Produced as an MFA thesis project, this amateurish short feature presents the soggy story of the unlikely...

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CHEERLEADER NINJAS (DVD)

There are days that force me, as a columnist dealing exclusively in the direct to video market, to question my own sanity. Maybe I'm dealing with...

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THE EROTIC GHOST

There are few things better in this world than a good lesbian vampire flick. The kind with a lot of top shelf eroticism and first rate B-movie starlets...

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THE VOICE INSIDE

In "The Voice Inside", a pasty-faced young gent (Elias) is tormented by a voice in his head. He takes drugs to combat this, but it doesn't help. He also...

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STIFFED

Well, what could be funnier than a comedy set in a morgue? I don't know, maybe getting root canal surgery without anesthesia?! Ron Howard pulled it off in...

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MONA LISA (CRITERION SPECIAL EDITION DVD)

"Neil's image of London... was London seen through the eyes of an Irish poet." ^ -Bob Hoskins from the commentary track of "Mona Lisa". Neil Jordan's 1985...

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TOMCATS

Meet the Tomcats. Michæl (Jerry O'Connell) is the nice guy, Kyle (Jake Busey) is the dickhead, there's a few other guys who add nothing to the plot,...

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CARMAN: THE CHAMPION

For one of the recent spate of Christian-themed films turning up in multiplexes, "Carman: The Champion" is shockingly understated in pushing its...

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