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In a Dream
In a Dream Dir: Jeremiah Zagar Rating: 4.0 International Film Circuit 80 Minutes I have known about Isaiah Zagar for most of my life in some capacity or another. As I grew up near
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Lymelife Dir: Derick Martini Rating: 4.0 Screen Media Films 95 Minutes Most people probably presume that city dwellers live in angst, drudgery and daily dysfunction, and that the suburbs are the haven for normalcy
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Anvil! The Story of Anvil Dir: Sacha Gervasi Rating: 4.0 Abramorama Films 90 Minutes I’m not the biggest fan of This is Spinal Tap, but it turns out when you have the same scenario
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Tokyo Sonata Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Rating: 4.0 Regent Releasing 119 Minutes In Japan, the sudden loss of position and income carries with it a degree of shame and embarrassment far beyond what we might
Read More »Phoebe in Wonderland
Phoebe In Wonderland Dir: Daniel Barnz Rating: 4.0 THINKfilm 96 Minutes Like a multi-layered pastry, first-time writer/director Daniel Barnz offers a film with much to savor. From the opening scenes as the rotating camera
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Hunger Dir: Steve McQueen Rating: 4.5 IFC Films 96 Minutes Most of our experience with films about the IRA and the Irish Troubles are limited to dramatic reenactments, dramatized and stylized scenes of brutality
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Examined Life Dir: Astra Taylor Rating: 4.5 Zeitgeist films 88 Minutes To the average person, Philosophy is an impenetrable discourse. Some may see it as a gaggle of over educated pedants lobbing abstract ideas
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Watchmen Dir. Zack Snyder Rating: 4.0 Warner Bros. 161 Minutes First things first – if you want Watchmen the comic book, stay at home, pick it up and read it. Nothing transfers media without
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Great Speeches from a Dying World Dir: Linas Phillips Rating: 4.0 Ecstatic Sweat Films 92 Minutes It probably comes as no surprise that Linas Phillips’s documentary on homelessness, Great Speeches from a Dying World
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Chocolate Dir: Prachya Pinkaew Rating: 4.0 Magnet Releasing 92 Minutes Thailand seems to be asserting itself as the heir to the action cinema; the US has given way to superhero mythology, Segal and Van
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