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by Simon de Bruyn, February 10, 2012 11:20 AM
With six weeks to go until the March 22 release of The Raid (yep, in Australia we get things one day early folks) Madman has released its own poster to promote Gareth Evans' rollicking action blasterpiece. A horrible pun, sure, but...
by Ryland Aldrich, February 4, 2012 7:17 PM
A new year of indie film has officially kicked off with the completion of Sundance 2012. Will it be the fest faves like Beasts of the Southern Wild or The Surrogate that make big waves over the next 12...
by Ryland Aldrich, February 4, 2012 1:47 PM
Ahhh, another snowy year at Sundance (particularly snowy this year) has come to a close. A lot of excellent films have been packed up in their canisters and sent to their new distributors. Even more will move along in...
by Ryland Aldrich, February 3, 2012 10:36 PM
Our sincere thanks to Andy Jurgensen for his review of Amy Berg's documentary and comparison to the documentary trilogy by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. In 1994, Damian Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley were tried and convicted in...
by Alex Koehne, February 2, 2012 9:33 PM
If you read my review of John Dies at the End, you know that I had a great time watching the movie, at midnight, in the Egyptian Theater during The Sundance FIlm Festival. Introduced by a bushy bearded Paul Giamatti who...
by Alex Koehne, February 2, 2012 11:30 AM
Safety Not Guaranteed is the feature film debut of director Colin Trevorrow and writer Derek Connolly. It stars Aubrey Plaza as Darius Britt, a new writer at a local magazine. She is sent out with her boss and a...
by Alex Koehne, January 31, 2012 10:09 PM
Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me has a lot going for it. It's smart, it's charming, it's funny and it's deeply personal. If you know of Mike Birbiglia's other work, you know that this is the case with just about...
by Alex Koehne, January 31, 2012 4:06 PM
I'll say right now that I am no connoisseur of the horror/thriller genre. I'm not easily scared or startled and while I enjoy the occasional breakout film of this sort, it's not the type of movie I actively seek...
by Alex Koehne, January 31, 2012 11:30 AM
Robot and Frank is a touching story about a man named Frank, played by Frank Langella, and his (at first) imposed friendship with, yes, a robot. It's got a great sense of humor which functions contrapuntally against the more...
by Alex Koehne, January 30, 2012 10:30 PM
Under African Skies is a documentary about Paul Simon's seminal album, Graceland. It covers the producing of the original album as well as the controversy it sparked upon its release. The album was seen as a breaking of the...
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