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High Marks for Get Lownew
"I once sold 26 of the ugliest cars ever made one December in Chicago with the wind blowing so far up my ass I was farting snowflakes in July."
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
08-25-2010 |
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A crazy ole coot throws his own funeral in the kitschy Get Lownew
Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) is the kind of man children fear and men tell stories about. He's the most notorious hermit in 1938's East Tennessee. He even has a sign nailed on his property warning "No damn trespassing. Beware of mule." In case anyone misses the point, Bush fires off a shot after hanging the sign, a gunpowder punctuation mark that declares he means business.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
08-24-2010 |
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Spike Lee's latest New Orleans doc premieres on HBOnew
The American media tends to take a pit-bull approach to news. It grabs on, digs its teeth in, and then tosses the lifeless carcass to the wind when the sensation has run its course. Follow-through is not always the media's forte. Thank goodness, then, for documentary filmmakers who make sustained and methodical reportage their strong suit.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
08-23-2010 |
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The Docu-Horror Picture Show: The Last Exorcism
'The Last Exorcism'can’t find the primal terror in the fake-documentary format.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-23-2010 |
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Tags: Daniel Stamm, The Last Exorcism
Adrian Santiago Hits the Marketnew
A DVD release gives an unexpected boost to a first-time Texas filmmaker.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
08-20-2010 |
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The Bali/Julia Project: Eat, Pray, Lovenew
The best-selling memoir becomes a pretty travelogue and not much else.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
08-20-2010 |
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Hero Worshipnew
A soldier’s tragic tale retold for maximum effect in 'The Tillman Story.'
New York Press |
Armond White |
08-19-2010 |
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thiefnew
Pack a picnic and watch as teenage protagonist Percy Jackson finds out that Greek gods still exist and that, in fact, he is the son of sea-god Poseidon.
Boise Weekly |
Stephen Foster |
08-18-2010 |
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The Girl Who Played With Fire Burns Up The Screennew
Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is one of the best literary anti-heroines of this generation.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
08-18-2010 |
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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinskynew
Cool Coco and ingenious Igor heat up the summer screen.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
08-17-2010 |
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In Wild Grass, desire doesn't fade with agenew
It is wholly within the spirit of this movie to be less concerned with meaning than with enjoying, questioning and delighting in story, beauty and mischief.
A Good Crone Atones: Children's Franchise Recovers With Polished Sequel
A vast improvement over the 2005 franchise introduction of co-writer/actress Emma Thompson's Mary-Poppinsish household savior, "Nanny McPhee Returns" finds modern-day meaning in its World War II era English trappings.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
08-16-2010 |
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Annette Bening and Julianne Moore play housenew
We have two mommies.
Charleston City Paper |
MaryAnn Johanson |
08-13-2010 |
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Scott Pilgrim captures its source material's energy, but not its soulnew
In Edgar Wright's adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's cult-favorite Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series, the visuals pop with jagged panel-break split-screens and straight-outta-Batman on-screen sound effects.
Charleston City Paper |
Scott Renshaw |
08-12-2010 |
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Swedish Suspensenew
Swedish writer Stieg Larsson's crime novels are now so popular that, to the surprise of snooty Europeans, actual Americans have been found reading them, in spite of the fact that the novels are written in words However, for the true American, only moving, talking pictures are a fit form of entertainment...
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
08-12-2010 |
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