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By David Finkelstein | February 2010
A startlingly original and powerful vision of the film musical…
Named after the absurd utopia of birds in an Aristophanes comedy, this abstract, very stylized musical concerns a family and their decision to join a...
BOOTLEG FILES 312: “Flying Padre” (1951 short documentary directed by Stanley Kubrick). LAST SEEN: Available on numerous online video sites. AMERICAN...
Are you having problems locating a genuinely original, intriguing and entertaining independent film? Then set your sights on the Marshall Islands. Yes,...
One of the most popular film festival selections of 2009 was Michael Paul Stephenson's documentary "Best Worst Movie," which covered everything you ever...
Once in a while, a film comes along that forever changes our lives. Russ Emanuel manages to do this in "P.J."---an award-winning film concerning an...
The early Hollywood studio system loved to sensationalize. A property rooted in character would turn melodramatic for the populace, making true drama a...
Even a month ago, if you'd have told me I'd wind up buying Film Threat during the Sundance Film Festival, I'd have laughed in your face. I know this...
For a mockumentary to work it has to be believable on some level. If the filmmakers were going for that here, they failed. Parts of “Staar” are just...
If there's a purgatory for wedding haters, I'd guess that Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell" is on the soundtrack loop. That three-songs-in-one number,...
As the world of words slowly abandons print for digital, traditional publications birth stepchildren they call "online components." In the case of film...