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Khadak
With this month's DVD release of Peter Brosens' Khadak, Associate Editor Kim Storeygard takes a look at the lyrical although confounding Sundance-award winner. "Set in the steppes of rural unsettled Mongolia, Peter Brosens' beautifully presented, yet utterly confused film, Khadak, explores th...
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Bananaz
During a radio interview, the DJ asks two of the musicians behind Gorillaz what they think about people comparing them and their live multimedia stage show to Pink Floyd.
“With all due respect to Pink Floyd,” cracks Damon Albarn, “We’ve got tunes.”
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Run Fatboy Run
Finally, the world gets an answer to the question, “What can David Schwimmer do from the director’s chair?” The question is, who was asking?
Simply put, this film is everything that is wrong with contemporary American cinema.
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The Matador
Bullfighting.
The word itself is enough to illicit a cringe of distaste in the average person, and outrage from your typical liberal-minded Westerner. Yet, for thousands of Spaniards, seeing a ritual killing is just good, old-fashioned popcorn fun. You could drop a few euro on ...
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Reviews Over the GW
Nick Gaglia's Over the GW is not for everyone. In fact, it's probably not for most people. A gritty, raw film about unlicensed drug rehabilitation clinics and their lack of government accountability, GW is choppy, uncomfortable, and sometimes extremely rough around the edges. However, making people uncomfortable was exactly Gaglia's goal.
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SXSW 2008Older Than America
With all the problems facing us in the 21st century, it’s easy to forget about the struggles of the past and what we can learn from them. By weaving a complicated plot of supernatural thrills, historical and personal drama and political intrigue, Older Than America touches on one such issue, that of the treatment of Native Americans--both current and historical--in the United States.
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SXSW 2008Second Skin
In the interest of full disclosure, I have to say up front that I’m a former World of Warcraft player. Player, not addict, because other than lack of sleep and a mild case of carpal tunnel, my hobby was never too detrimental to my life. I still worked, I still socialized, and I only occasionally ...
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SXSW 2008Wesley Willis' Joyrides
Wesley Willis was my introduction into the world of outsider art. I was a college freshmen living in a dorm, and my high speed internet connection was a pipeline to all manner of media I never would have otherwise been exposed to. This was the Napster era, the golden age of file sharing where it became a mission to find and consume as much music as I possibly could.
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