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AND WHO TAUGHT YOU TO DRIVE?

By | March 2013

2013 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL SXGLOBAL SELECTION! It’s great that we really get to know our three subjects but I couldn’t help thinking that if there were three more in other parts of the world that the overall themes of the piece might have resonated more completely…

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AND WHO TAUGHT YOU TO DRIVE?

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Andrea Thiele & Lia Jaspers And Who Taught You to Drive? raises some interesting questions about how much of a role driving plays in our cultural identity....

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BIG JIMMY – 02 – THREE DIMENSIONS AND A LITTLE LADY: PART ONE

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Martian milksop Jimmy Feldspar accidentally became Mars' representative in a brutal intergalactic fighting tournament. Now he must wait and prepare for his...

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SCENIC ROUTE

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Something is clearly wrong between these two guys, because when "Scenic Route" opens, they're in the middle of a massive fight, swinging a crutch, crushing...

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MUD

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This review was originally published on January 21, 2013... Like Take Shelter before it, Mud confirms Jeff Nichols' status as a rising talent in the world...

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NICKY

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Nothing is quite what it seems in Dom Portalla and Ken Flott’s newest Kafkaesque short film, Nicky---and that’s what makes us view it with one eye on...

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#POSTMODEM

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This review was originally published on January 18, 2013... From the same filmmaking team that brought us one of my favorite short films of 2012, Life and...

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HEY MAN, CAN WE BORROW YOUR CAR?

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A sort of minor/major part of the script of “Holy Ghost People” was the car that our hero Wayne (played by the ass kicking Brendan McCarthy) drives....

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SCI-FLY

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This review was originally published on January 21, 2013... Practical effects are nearly a thing of the past. Today, we tend to see bloated,...

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BLACK METAL

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This review was originally published on January 19, 2013... Ian (Jonny Mars) is the lead singer in a death metal band, Crown of Horns, and one evening a...

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PRINCE AVALANCHE

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This review was originally published on January 31, 2013... One of the weirdest directorial turns I can think of is how David Gordon Green went from the...

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