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J. Robert Spencer's not-so-funny comedy of errors Farm Girl in New York is redeemingly bad. When aspiring writer Sam (Jeffrey Schecter) breaks off his engagement with a cheating fiance, gangs up with eccentric and charmingly womanizing best bud Matt (Joshua Wade Mill...
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Andrew P. Jones' Kings of the Evening suffers primarily from its lack of originality. Nestling itself snuggly in trappings of theatricality, the film echoes the style, and thankfully the strength in performances, of a Lackawanna Blues ilk, yet it's substance is so egregiously hackneyed that it's a film as if seen in its entirety within a mere five minutes.

Vince DiPersio's latest film, The Big Question explores the age-old question of forgiveness: Should we or shouldn't we? In a flexible format of interviews with world leaders, crime victims, eyewitnesses, professors, doctors, people on the street, and official footage from national and international tragedy, DiPersio examines every inch of this question from the basest biological implications to the highest spiritual ramifications.

As a matter of course, I view documentaries as a skeptic. Name-dropping and statistical manipulation are matter of course in so many industries it's often hard to tell if what documentaries tout as truth is really so. That being said, I found A Snowmobile for George to be one of the most interesting documentaries I've seen this year. Unfortunately, however interesting I found Darling's information, I don't think all the pieces of the film fit together very well.