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LUMINOUS MOTION

By | September 1998

If Bette Gordon’s dreamy road movie is intended to be a poignant study of the intense relationship between a mother and her son then it was lost on me…

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LUMINOUS MOTION

If Bette Gordon's dreamy road movie is intended to be a poignant study of the intense relationship between a mother and her son then it was lost on me....

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HELL'S KITCHEN

Tony Cinciripini's debut film begins as a formulaic Boyz N The Hood (1991) drama/heist-gone-wrong story, but gradually develops into a compassionate...

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ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE

Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) and Rosie (Natasha Gregson Wagner) are small-time crooks with no purpose or direction. Along comes Mel (James Woods) and Sid...

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PECKER

I have longed to see John Waters' "Pecker," and I must say, it's a beautiful and wondrous thing. Techno and rap songs will be sampling this movie for...

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TRANCE

This film is an atmospheric mess. It doesn't know if it wants to be a supernatural thriller, a horror film, or a comedy. It contains elements all of these...

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ANTZ

Z is a dissatisfied worker ant who we meet in the middle of a therapy session which makes a lot of sense because Z's voice is provided by Woody Allen. Z...

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FORTY GUNS (RE-RELEASE)

As part of the Dialogues series, where a director discusses a favourite film that influenced them in some way, Finnish filmmaker Mika Kaurismaki introduced...

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A SIMPLE PLAN

Who would've thought that the same filmmaker who brought us the flying eyeball POV shot could have directed such a mature film as this one? And yet, Sam...

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BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY

Cited by some critics as an influential film for many of Japan's contemporary filmmakers, Kinji Fukasaku's 1973 film is a bloody gangster epic a la...

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JERRY AND TOM

Actor Saul Rubinek's impressive directorial debut is an engaging black comedy about two hitmen (Joe Mantegna and Sam Rockwell) who moonlight as used car...

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