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Good Game! – A Preview of Olympics and Sports Films
Sports films generally follow one cardinal rule. This rule has little to do with the technical aspects of film-making, story device, or even high octane performances. The one unforgivable component of...
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Stay Young, Have Fun – A Film Review of ‘Bones Brigade: An Autobiography’
In 1982, the Del Mar Skate Park was home to a 14 year-old beanstalk teenager named Tony Hawk. Today, you don’t have to own a skateboard to know who Tony Hawk is. He is the most successful professional...
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Hermetically Sealed Youth – A Film Review of ‘Dogtooth’
In Dogtooth (2009), almost everything has a falsely constructed meaning. Little yellow flowers growing in the garden are called Zombies. Planes flying over a meticulously kept backyard can easily fall...
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Humble Yourself – A Film Review of P.T. Anderson’s ‘Hard Eight’
A significant amount of time in my life has been spent devouring the work of Paul Thomas Anderson. Considering that the California born 42 year-old director has only made six feature films, his...
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Awkwardly Erotic – A Film Review of ‘Turn Me On, Dammit!’
Turn Me On, Dammit! is an exploration of female, teenage, sexual expression – a perspective that is rarely awarded equal billing on the big screen. There are plenty of coming of age stories that deal...
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The Greatest Suspension of Disbelief – A Film Review of ‘The Imposter’
Agatha Christie, the grandmother of mystery fiction, couldn’t have written it better. The Imposter, a first feature by Bart Layton is what fiction dreams are made of. The only predicament is that not...
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Creative Revolution or Mediocre Pollution – A Film Review of Press, Pause, Play
We live in a world where if you have an internet connection you can be a star. In 2011, The House of Radon, a creative agency from Stockholm, Sweden recognized this swelling cultural shift in our...
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Unfit Father – Son Bonding – A Film Review of ‘Klown’
We can thank Larry David and the writers of Curb Your Enthusiasm for setting the faux pas slash awkward moment bar so high it is near impossible to have a socially unacceptable incident these days...
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So Close, Yet So Very Inexplicably Far – A Film Review of ‘The Bothersome Man’
Maybe it’s the imminent decent of cold weather on the east coast or the controversial holiday stir that is rising out of a soon to be gender neutral Sweden, but Scandinavia seems to be everywhere I...
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To Pabst, Cazals and Apathy – A Film Review of ‘The Comedy’
Be forewarned, the descriptor title of Rick Alverson’s ‘The Comedy’ is largely a misnomer. The film may boast a comedian as its front man and there is a chance that if you like black comedy (and I...
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The Elegant Touch of Food Affection – A Film Review of ‘A Matter of Taste:...
There are two types of people in this world – those who can control themselves around food and those who cannot. I happen to be one of the joyful gluttons who cannot. In an ideal world, my voracious...
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(Re)Build Your Dreams – A Film Review of Detropia
Years ago, I read an article about a handful of artists and entrepreneurs, who had re-appropriated industrial squat space and neglected mansions into studios and art galleries. The ‘who’ and ‘when’...
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Hold Your Breath – A Film Review of ‘Voice Over’
Admittedly, there have been moments in my life when I have lead a causal game of “Would You Rather” in a politically incorrect and permissive environment. My invented questions lump implausible on top...
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Wounded Deers – Film Review of ‘Fawns’
I first found Fawns while I was busy looking for something else, and it has since proved to be a lesson for me on managing my expectations. Ironically, I had impatiently been waiting for The Fourth...
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Alluring Love – A series of attractive videos by The Kooples
The Kooples, is a French based fashion house the designs apparel meant to be worn in tandem with your partner as a well-coordinated couple. Designs are inter-changeable and at times genderless. The...
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Noi is the Loneliest Number – A Film Review of ‘Nói albinói’
There are three identities that come to mind when I think of Iceland. One is of the vast and breathtaking landscape, which is so obscenely grand it is almost supernatural. The second is the capital of...
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‘Come to Harm’ a new short film by Borkur Sigthorsson
On the other side of the county, in the capital Reykjavik, Icelanders that were affected by the financial crisis came to inspire Come to Harm by director/photographer Borkur Sigthorsson. Come to Harm...
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Film Art: Neil Kellerhouse
We’ve all said those three powerful words when deciding which film to watch: “This looks (insert negative or positive adjective here).” Whatever adjective finishes that short sentence decides the fate...
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Sociopathic Pop Misfits – A Film Review of ‘Spring Breakers’
What do you get when you mix teenage starlets and pop sensations with America’s most enigmatic independent filmmaker? The answer is Spring Breakers, the neon-blazing, experiential, psychedelic...
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Film Art: The posters of Akiko Stehrenberger
Before any discussion of the poster for Funny Games ensues, I must emphasize that the German turned American film, by Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, is without a doubt a terrifying, horror movie....
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