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SXSW Film Review – Hired Gun
As anybody with a liberal arts degree will tell you these days, it’s tough to be a freelancer. Job security is more and more becoming a fleeting indulgence and those looking to survive on their craft alone are met with viciously fluctuating economic circumstances that…
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Film Review – Do I Sound Gay?
David Thorpe’s documentary Do I Sound Gay? comfortably sits just outside of a larger political question within the context of a personal journey. This is not an unusual way to frame a broad argument, such as western society’s attitudes towards perceived femininity in men, but…
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Film Review – Salad Days: The Birth of Punk in the Nation’s Capital
It’s for good reason that there is still a lot of interest and respect for the highly influential DC punk rock scene and for Dischord Records, the label in which many of its bands belonged. While many of the groups and record labels associated with…
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Film review – Appropriate Behavior
Desiree Akhavan’s breakup comedy Appropriate Behavior cautiously and honestly blends the familiar with the new, as she competently writes, directs, and stars in her first feature. Indiscriminately using every aspect of her own life to the screen, Akhaven plays Shirin, a second-generation Iranian who’s struggling…
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Film Review – Pump
We’ve all heard stories about how the motor companies could be making cars that run on water or corn oil or Mr. Fusion devices that convert beer cans and egg shells into fuel. We’ve also heard how the oil companies have done everything in their…
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Film Review – Among Ravens
Among Ravens is the type of micro-indie that normally goes unseen and unheard of and thus impacts nothing either positively or negatively. It’s a from-the-heart labor of love full of actors acting and a camera crew capturing the natural beauty of its surroundings, soaking up…
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SXSW Film Review – Song from the Forest
Michael Obert’s documentary Song from the Forest investigates the relationship between man and his environment. It seeks to find the meaning behind modern conceptions of art, commerce and civilizations through the lens of an objective camera, showing us only snip-bits and snap shots of the…
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Netflix Recommendations – Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something True (1)
I have conceded to the fact that Netflix and the other online streaming services are the future. Personally, I grew up going to video stores, and when I grew all the way up I worked at one for over four years. But with the recent…
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