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IN CURRENT SEASON

By | October 2011

This is the type of film that benefits more from the creation of the conversation than some outright dictation of meaning, ultimately…

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IN CURRENT SEASON

Ben Wilson's In Current Season has been giving me mental fits since watching it, mainly in that I've been trying to grasp precisely what it all means. On a...

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SKATOPIA: 88 ACRES OF ANARCHY

If someone told you that a bastion of pure, unadulterated freedom exists in the United States, where would you expect to would find that place? Unless your...

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF MONKEY MAN – 09

Monkey Man and friends offer some suggestions to help you pick the best costume for Halloween. From the mind of Brian Lynch (Spike, Angel and Angry Naked...

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WHERE'S DADDY? THE LEGACY OF "THE BAD SEED" (1956)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Mervyn LeRoy's The Bad Seed (1956) premiered an anxiety that would soon blossom in the American cinema: a fear that our offspring could...

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POPPIES: ODYSSEY OF AN OPIUM EATER

Based on the autobiography of Eric Detzer, Poppies: Odyssey of an Opium Eater tells the tale of former heroin addict Eric (David Bertelsen), a man...

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LAST THOUGHTS

Filmmaker Kevin Henry's Last Thoughts opens on the creation of the grave site headstone for Robert Henry, Kevin's grandfather. Starting at the ending, as...

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TIME EXPIRED

Parking enforcement officer Randall (Eric Starkey) leads a simple life. He eats at his favorite restaurant daily, relaxes in his recliner after work and,...

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THE MIAMI DENTIST

"The Miami Dentist" is a strange, poetic, and engrossing short by David Baeumler, with an oddly comic tone. The credits are in the jaunty graphic style of...

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LE DEPART D'ULYSSE

French filmmaker Jean Nagel conceives the pre-Trojan War farewell between the great general Ulysses and his long-suffering wife Penelope in a stark...

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KURONEKO: CRITERION COLLECTION (DVD)

Kaneto Shindo is a Japanese director whose works I wasn't familiar with until now. After viewing "Kuroneko," I can see why he's often held in the same...

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