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Film Review – Roller Blade Seven
Roller Blade Seven is a really awful post-apocalyptic movie by this terrible director who puts roller skates, roller blades, and skateboards in a bunch of movies that are all stupid. I’m a bit confused about the plot of this movie. It’s kind of like Mad…
READ MOREFilm Review – Conviction (Second Take)
Directed by Tony Goldwyn, the new movie Conviction tells the true life story of Betty Anne Waters, played by Hillary Swank. Growing up in Ayer, Massachusetts with her older brother Kenny (played by the wonderful Sam Rockwell), they would escape from life with their neglectful…
READ MOREFilm Review – Nun of That
Nun of That is a pretty awful shoot ‘em up movie involving a vigilante group of nuns actually working for the Vatican and fighting crime – they’re called the Order of the Black Habit. All of the nuns are named after the seven deadly sins.…
READ MOREFilm Review – Paranormal Activity 2
Last year, a small, shoestring budgeted horror film took the world by storm and became arguably the most profitable movie ever made. Paranormal Activity (2007) proves that you can make an intense, effective, and suspenseful movie without the need for gore or brutality. The film…
READ MOREIndie Film Review – Borges and I
Borges and I opens with a gimmick: John is an out of work actor who decides to start recording his everyday activities using a button camera on his jacket. The entire film is shot with this button cam, giving us a semi-POV from John’s perspective.…
READ MOREFilm Review – Conviction
The title of director Tony Goldwyn’s Conviction (2010) really works on two different fronts. The first about the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of a man who fit the mold of a brutal killer, but swears it wasn’t him. It also works as the representation of…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Landlord
The Landlord (2009) is a shoestring indie horror comedy, written and directed by Emil Hyde. It tells the story of brother and sister Tyler (Derek Dziak) and Amy (Michelle Courvais), who have the unenviable task of being the owners of an apartment building that a…
READ MOREFilm Review – Grizzly Man
For thirteen summers, Timothy Treadwell lived in the Alaskan wilderness near and amongst the wild bears of the area. He interacted with them, talked with them, even went so far as to go up to and touch them. During this time, he recorded over one…
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