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21 JUMP STREET

By | March 2012

Halfway through this affable, inspired grab bag of a comedy, it hit me that what I was watching wasn’t merely a good movie but rather The Greatest TV Adaptation Ever Made…

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21 JUMP STREET

Halfway through this affable, inspired grab bag of a comedy, it hit me that what I was watching wasn’t merely a good movie but rather The Greatest TV...

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LAST DAYS HERE

He’s “grizzle” incarnate. Sagging skin droops from arms like the sleeves of an oversized sweater. Spindly, cotton-candy hair sprouts from a scabby...

FILM THREAT PODCAST – EPISODE 62 – THEY WOULDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A &

Don and Mark get down and hungry with The Hunger Games, discuss Silent House, fistfuck a DVR and explore the immensity of SXSW 2012... [mejsaudio...

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THE HUNGER GAMES

The setting is Panem, the remains of a collapsed North America; a country made up of 12 districts, all serving the Capitol. There used to be 13 districts,...

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BATTLE ROYALE: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION (BLU-RAY)

Battle Royale made its controversial entrance into cinema in 2000. A tale of a dystopian future where adults so fear the youth that the government passes...

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DEATH WISH

It's Christmas Eve 1977, and a young girl (Emma Karwandy), expecting a visit from a jolly fat man in red, instead finds the Grim Reaper (Jeny Cassady) at...

GOING BIONIC – DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY: 11-YEAR IND

I’m so damn tired this week, because I just completed a road trip that encompassed 3,458 miles across 10 states in six days. The point of my taxing...

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AN ENCOUNTER WITH SIMONE WEIL

Filmmaker Julia Haslett predicates her feature-length non-fiction film on a celebrated quote by French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943): “Attention is...

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WAY FAR GONE

Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about the upsides of meth? An English teacher’s miserable life shifts dramatically when he confiscates some crystal from...

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TILTING AT SKYSCRAPERS

Mental illness isn’t something to laugh at. That is, unless, the mentally ill guy duct-tapes a telephone to his head and sets out into his neighborhood...

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