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SXSW Double Feature – Ovarian Psycos and The Smart Studios Story
Ovarian Psycos: Directed by Joanna Sokolowski and Kate Trumbull-LaValle, Ovarian Psycos documents the Ovarian Psycos Bicycle Brigade, an all-women-of-color feminist collective in East L. A. They use their monthly lunar bike rides as a rallying point for discussion, activism, and friendship. The group deploys elements…
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SXSW Double Feature – The Liberators and The Dwarvenaut
The Liberators: Directed by Cassie Hay, The Liberators tells the story of the St. Servatius church’s medieval religious artifacts, some of which were stolen from the German town of Quedlinburg at the end of World War II. In 1986, researcher Willi Korte accepted the task…
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SXSW Film Review – Another Evil
In Carson D. Mell’s first feature film Another Evil, Dan (Steve Zissis), his wife Mary (Jennifer Irwin), and son Jazz (Dax Flame) are staying at their weekend house in the woods when they notice something a little weird. There are minor disturbances in Dan’s painting…
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SXSW Film Review – Silicon Cowboys
When I think about the history of computing, most what I know has to do with Microsoft, Apple, and Xerox PARC. (If you are interested in the subject, and you should be because it’s a fascinating, I recommend Robert X. Cringely’s Triumph of the Nerds:…
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Film Review – The Hateful Eight
Okay Tarantino fans, here’s my review of The Hateful Eight in a nutshell: If you love Quentin Tarantino, you will probably enjoy this film. If you think his movies are crap, there is nothing here that will change your mind. If you, like me, have…
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Film Review – The Big Short
In addition to being an ardent film lover, I really enjoy financial scandals. (Reading about them, not committing them.) I have an MBA from the University of Washington, and most of our accounting class time was spent talking about people misbehaving with numbers. I graduated…
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Film Review – Man Up
34 year-old Nancy (Lake Bell) is pretty much over the dating scene in Ben Palmer‘s new film Man Up, preferring to hole up in her hotel room rather than face a set-up at her friend’s engagement party. Later, she travels by train to her parent’s…
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Double Feature Showdown – Maniac (1980) vs. Maniac (2012)
I am a big fan of director William Lustig’s movies Maniac Cop and Vigilante, and have been looking forward to watching Maniac (1980), his first feature, for a while now. I don’t think everything he directed is gold (I quite dislike Maniac Cop 2 and Uncle…
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