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DAYDREAM BELIEVER

By | January 2001

SLAMDANCE 2001 WORLD PREMIERE! It is a little difficult to swallow that someone could really be as naive and gullible as Val is in this day and age. Small town innocence only stretches so far, after all…

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DAYDREAM BELIEVER

It's good to have dreams. However, one should probably think things through a little more carefully than does Valerie (Sybil Kempson) before acting on...

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REDSHIRT BLUES

I guess if there's any steadfast rule for success in making a short these days, it's this: Do a spoof of a popular science fiction series. That in mind,...

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DOLLFACE

What you have here is a fairly amusing short bookended by the most perplexing, stupid framing device I've ever seen -- some fat midget dude be-bopping...

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KILLING TIME

It doesn't break any ground, and isn't experimental or enligtening, but "Killing Time" is nonetheless an impressive, slick little scenario that is...

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IT DID IT

An intellectual exercise in watching paint dry, "It Did It" flew towards left field and right over my head, but I think that was the intention. This slow...

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MONKEY VS. ROBOT

"Monkey vs. Robot" is a rather difficult piece to describe. With the use of nearly every recording medium he could lay his hands on, Filmmaker Nathan...

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TITANIC: THE TRUE STORY

Apparently what happened with the Titanic had nothing to do with icebergs, according to Julien Reininger's charming little animated film "Titanic: The True...

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CURRENT

A very simple event becomes an eerie omen of destruction in Brian Doyle's "Current." Paper, riding the wind, invades New York City. Helicopters fly above...

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PLAY DEAD

Too many moments in "Play Dead" lie just as stiff and lifeless as the subject of the film. It hangs an entire film upon a premise that wears its welcome...

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H.R. PUKENSHETTE

First the good news: "H.R. Pukenshette" is not a vulgar parody of the old Sid & Marty Krofft TV show "H.R. Pufenstuf". Fans of Witchiepoo & Co. do not...

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