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In her 2000, film American Psycho, writer/director Mary Harron (see also, I Shot Andy Warhol) explored America’s relationship with and reaction to violence – or perhaps, lack of reaction. Now Harron brings us The Notorious Bettie Page, the story of the 1950s pin-up model who would go on to become a cult icon of sexuality. With this film Harron has explored America’s relationship with and reaction – or perhaps more accurately, overreaction – to sex. Though NBP is a much sweeter, more optimistic work that Harron’s previous films, it is no less thematically complicated and raises significant questions about many aspects of American society both past and present, ranging from sex and religion to politics and capitalism.

Hard Candy deals with issues that may make some viewers uncomfortable. The opening sequence keeps you shifting in your seats as you listen to the flirtation between a fourteen-year-old girl and an older man she met online. It is the conversation that you always feared could happen.

Trust The Man - Fox Searchlight See this? Trust this. Having Fun With Stereotypes, Part I: Good God! A movie which perpetuates the stereotype that men...

Iowa is like a drug-induced walk through the Mid-West. In this sleepy town full of shady characters two young lovers begin cooking up drugs and selling it out of a ranch house, hoping to get enough money to leave their world behind. Soon they find themselves escaping reality, on the run and heading on a downward spiral.

Daniel Johnston is a musician known throughout the world for both his comic book style artwork and his songs of unrequited love. Many underground music fans in America are familiar with him, but mainstream America has somehow overlooked his body of work. Maybe that is because he spent a large part of his life in and out of mental institutions fighting his maniac depression and the beckoning of the Devil.