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Detour | Review
Dickerson’s Trapped-without-escape Ordeal Swims More Than Sinks Utilizing a minimum amount of characters and locations within a trapped in a car, freak mudslide buried alive template, William Dickerson’s debut feature draws inevitable comparisons to
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Magic Magic | Sundance 2013 Review
Identikit: Silva’s Eerie Genre Effort an Unsettling Throwback Harkening back to a genre of women and madness features that populated plenty of classic titles from the late 60s and 70s, Sebastian Silva’s second film
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Sahkanaga | Review
Body Works: Summerour’s Quiet Reimagining of Notable Scandal an Ambivalent Mix For his directorial debut, John Henry Summerour fictionalizes a decade old account of a notorious crematorium scandal in 2002 northwestern Georgia (the director’s
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Hyde Park on Hudson | Review
Michell Manages FDR’s Affairs, Charmingly Roger Michell’s ravishing Hyde Park on Hudson gives us a glimpse into the private life of one of our most beloved presidents, and what we see is that F.D.R.
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Killing Them Softly | Review
What It Don’t Get I Can’t Use: Dominik’s Latest Period Piece Explores the Mob’s Economic Crises Life imitates art, it could be argued, with Andrew Dominik’s latest film, Killing Them Softly, a talky genre
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Fat Kid Rules the World | Review
Punked Up: Lillard’s Passion Project a Worthwhile Effort Matthew Lillard, that 1990s alternative screen teen utilized to great effect by John Waters, Wes Craven, and in the cult classic SLC Punk! (1998), who’s all
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The Tortured | Review
Apt Title Foretells Effect on its Audience: Lieberman’s Absurd Attempt at Horror Robert Lieberman’s latest film, a quaggy, moronic torture porn debacle, ironically titled The Tortured, is finally getting released by IFC Films nearly
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Girl In Progress | Review
Never Gets Beyond a Rough Draft: Riggen Receives Failing Grade Painful. Awkward. Potentially damaging to your later development—these common traits associated with adolescence are also succinct descriptions for the latest film from Patricia Riggen,
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Interview: Brian Cano (A Bag of Hammers)
[Editor's note: This interview was conducted during the SXSW 2011 Film Fesitval - MPI Media Group release A Bag of Hammers in NYC on May 11, 2012 and in L.A. on May 18, 2012.] Brian
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God Bless America | Review
Bobcat Goldthwait’s pop culture manifesto fires at easy targets Writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait’s cartoonishly violent screed against cultural debasement comes from the right place but heads into hypocrisy. Goldthwait’s surrogate in ‘God Bless America’ is
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Blue Chip Thesp Logan Marshall Green Takes on Tennessee Williams Role in “Lonely Hunter”
Making this his official breakout year, Tom Hardy lookalike thesp Logan Marshall Green who’ll next be seen in Prometheus, and is currently filming Black Dog, Red Dog has got the weighty gig of playing
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The Connection (1962) | Review
Shirley Clarke’s Infamous 1962 mock-doc on Junkie Squalor gets Restored ‘The Connection,’ Shirley Clarke’s 1962 mock-documentary exposé of New York’s heroin addict sub-culture, has gained a reputation as an era-defining polemic due in great
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Louis-Dreyfus Has Affair with Gandolfini; Holofcener Teams with Fox Searchlight for her 5th Feature Film
An expert in the human condition, Nicole Holofcener is returning to a theme she knows best: relationship woes. One of the rare indie female filmmakers to continually receive distribution deals will direct her fifth
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Tribeca Film Get Custody on “For Ellen”
A good four months since its back to back Sundance and Berlin Film Festival premieres, So Yong Kim has finally secured a U.S theatrical/VOD release with the Tribeca Film label for her third outing, For
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Kelly Reilly Takes a Bite out of the Hilary Brougher Directed “Innocence”
We had lost sight of Hilary Brougher and for a while now, we lost sight of a project that we figured would be filming any day now. Finally there is a break in this
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Interview: Andrew Dosunmu (Restless City)
[Editor's note: This was originally published during the AFI Film Festival - Restless City is being released on April 27th by AFFRM]. We were thrilled to see Andrew Dosunmu’s latest film, Restless City, his
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Hook Line and Sinker; Variance Teams with Spike Lee for “Red Hook Summer”
A full four months after it premiered in Park City to mostly thumbs down type reviews, Deadline reports that Spike Lee will be joining forces with indie distributor Variance Films on the August 10th
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Interview: Ti West (The Innkeepers)
Jordan Smith: The Innkeepers comes out on DVD/Blu-ray today, but it was available on VOD for a month before it arrived in theaters. How do you feel about this release style? Ti West: I
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The Innkeepers | Blu-ray Review
Working within the walls of a genre over stuffed with recycled extremism, writer/director/editor Ti West’s horror films are refreshingly retro. Rather than trying to shock his audiences into submission, he takes cues from his
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4:44 Last Day On Earth | Review
Forget the hype: Ferrara’s end-of-the-world reverie puts other apocalypse movies to shame The countdown to the apocalypse becomes a celebratory wake in Abel Ferrara’s transcendent 4:44: Last Day on Earth. Eschewing sci-fi escapism for
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I Am Not A Hipster | Review
Guitars and Ash At Odds With The World Writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton follows up his award winning short, Short Term 12, with a personal reflection on the San Diego indie scene through the eyes
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"Ron and I wanted to make a film that looked at what it means to be an outsider and we wanted to explore what it takes to reach out to someone whose life is very removed from your own."
