Your Independent Movie Guide
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By | December 2000
TK
If you find utterly unbearable the thought of sitting through yet another one of the recent chick-flick releases or suffering through yet another two-hour...
If the movies "It's a Wonderful Life" with Jimmy Stewart and "Scrooged" with Bill Murray got together and had hot holiday sex, the baby resulting from that...
In one of the smartest marketing moves 20th Century Fox may have ever pulled, they did not pre-screen "Dude, Where's My Car?" for critics. At first, I was...
The modestly budgeted "The Gift" marks a homecoming of sorts for director Sam Raimi, who returns to his roots in the cinema of the supernatural after a...
Positioning a lavish adaptation of a literary classic for maximum awards consideration is hardly a risk, but Terence Davies' adaptation of Edith Wharton's...
On a short list with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Requiem for a Dream," "The Claim" is one of the year's most visually stylistic films. It's shot...
Reinaldo Arenas was a gay Cuban poet, and given the harsh government in Cuba, he was severely persecuted for those other two labels. There's nothing in...
One rewarding aspect of this reviewing gig is the chance to screen unheralded documentaries about all kinds of obscure subjects. There's stuff out there...
The villain in "Steal Wheels" goes by the subtle name "Snake." That alone should be a tip-off as to how brutally bad this "Easy Riders" wannabe truly is....
Simon (Richard Edson) doesn't get out much. What better way is there to explain how the grouchy and rigid owner of E-Z Pawn reacts to Anna's (Lorie Marino)...
