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By | March 2007

2007 SXSW NARRATIVE COMPETITION FEATURE! I don’t get off on bashing films any more and I’m almost certain director Rapp and his team didn’t set out to make a stinker…

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BLACKBIRD

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2007 SXSW NARRATIVE COMPETITION FEATURE! Back in the ole salad days of my film reviewing, I derived a certain pleasure out of taking a film I disliked to...

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SILVERLAKE GETS SLEAZIER WITH “SO BAD IT’S GOOD” CINEMA

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Come Friday, March 30th at midnight, the new home for the SO BAD IT'S GOOD FILM FEST, monthly screenings of the best in trashy flicks, is the Vista Theatre...

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“WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS…FAILURE…OF THE HEART”

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"Coolhand Luke" and "Amityville Horror" director Stuart Rosenberg has died of a heart attack at the age of 79. Paul Newman issued a statement saying "He...

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SCENIC HIGHWAY

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2007 SXSW SHORT FILM! Every state in the Union has at least one; that one or those two or more cities that possess an inherent inferiority complex to that...

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THE TOLL

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It must seem like a surefire way for an animation company to attract some attention. Create some memorable, charismatic character and just animate the hell...

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CATE BLANCHETT IS FOR INDY 4!

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Casting rumors for the fourth Indiana Jones movie are flying around faster than those blow darts that plagued Indy in "Raiders of the Lost Ark," but alas,...

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SEVERANCE

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There’s nothing like a corporate retreat: the unbearable team-building exercises, embarrassing bouts of drunkenness, and – of course – ill-advised...

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ARRANGED

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2007 SXSW EMERGING VISIONS FEATURE! Religion is a big issue in our country, and in the Middle East, it is part of an even bigger confrontation. The Jewish...

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DOUBLETIME

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The sport of competitive rope jumping (or rope skipping, as it was originally called) was started by an ex-football player named Richard Cendali in the...

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ILS (THEM)

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2007 SXSW ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT FEATURE! Alfred Hitchcock, the great master of horror and suspense, loved making movies set in innocuous locations, often in...

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