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By | April 2008
The storytelling approach is both invigorating and exhausting…
Ron Bonk’s feature “Clay” constantly puts the viewer off-guard. Initially it plays like an artsy chiller-thriller, with a stalking sequence...
Just checked into the W Hotel across the street from the American Airlines arena (where the Stars play hockey), and all I have to say is "whoa!" It's like...
In the fall of 2004, indie filmmaker Patrick O’Brien noticed an involuntary shaking in his legs. It wasn’t until May 2005 that the cause of the shaking...
One of the perils of improvised films is winding up with a production that starts in the middle of nowhere and ends up on the fringe of nowhere. The...
As someone who grew up during the 1970s, my reaction the first time I saw "The Ice Storm" in 1997 when was probably similar to what someone who was raised...
“Hang ‘em high. Hang ‘em fast.” That’s the lesson the Reverend Carroll Pickett learned early in life from his father, whose father was a murder...
If you've seen Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" lately, I think it's safe to say that the film... hasn't aged well. At all. Even when I was sitting in the theater...
"The Bride Wore Blood" has some tricks up its sleeve. They aren't revealed until near the end, proving that this hour-long film (more than a short, but not...
It’s the subject of many Hollywood films – "The Big Chill" being the most famous of them – old friends gathering together to reminisce and try to...
The dust has barely settled from SXSW and I'm on my way back to Texas for the AFI Dallas Film Festival. I'll be there April 1-6, and on Saturday, April 5...
