Archive for March, 2006

Iowa
“Iowa” is a cautionary tale of love, crime, fantasy and addiction. Two young lovers, Esper Harte (Matt Farnsworth) and Donna Huffman (Diane Foster) decide to go into the “batch” business?cooking their own methamphetamine?only to watch it burn a jagged hole in their lives. An unflinching look at the crystal meth epidemic that is currently raging in the Midwest and its devastating effect on the lives [...] »

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Marilyn Hotchkiss` Ballroom Dancing And Charm School
“Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing and Charm School” is a beautiful film that celebrates the reawakening of the spirit. Frank Keane (Robert Carlyle) has been consumed by grief over his wife’s death. When fate intervenes, he pulls over to help a stranger in a car wreck. The man (John Goodman), near death, begs Frank to fulfill a promise made 40 years ago that he would meet his childhood sweethear [...] »

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Adam & Steve
Inhabiting a post 9/11 New York, “Adam & Steve” follows the romantic trajectory of two people struggling to make love work in spite of overwhelming odds. Having met in the 80’s after a disastrous one night stand, Adam (Craig Chester) & Steve (Malcolm Gets) don’t recognize each other when they meet again fifteen years later. With the help of their best friends, formerly obese stand up comic Rhonda [...] »

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The Devil And Daniel Johnston
“The Devil and Daniel Johnston” is a stunning portrait of a musical and artistic genius who nearly slipped away. Director Jeff Feuerzeig exquisitely depicts a perfect example of brilliance and madness going hand in hand with subject Daniel Johnston. As an artist suffering from manic depression with delusions of grandeur, Daniel Johnston’s wild fluctuations, numerous downward spirals, and periodic r [...] »

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Awesome: I Fuckin` Shot That
On October 9, 2004, the Beastie Boys handed out 50 cameras to audience members at their sold-out performance in New York`s famed Madison Square Garden. These 50 different passionate perspectives, shot from the point-of-view of the audience, take the viewer deep inside the world of a live Beastie Boys show, prismatically and kinetically capturing the experience of a live musical performance like no f [...] »

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Brick
“Brick,” the dynamic debut feature from writer/director Rian Johnson, won the Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision.

“Brick,” while taking its cues and its verbal style from the novels of Dashiell Hammett, also honors the rich cinematic tradition of the hard-boiled noir mystery, here wittily and bracingly immersed in fresh territory ? a modern-day Southern Cal [...] »

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Slither
From the twisted mind of filmmaker JAMES GUNN (writer, 2004`s Dawn of the Dead) comes the latest addition to the unique canon of horror comedy films — a story so deliciously heinous, hilariously base and unbelievably demented that its mere name brings to mind the sickening giant mollusks of the invertebrate underbelly world. Huge slugs from outer space, bloodthirsty zombies and slime-ridden oozing [...] »

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ATL

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17-year-old Rashad (TIP HARRIS) was forced to become the man of the house earlier than most. Since the death of his parents, he`s carried the responsibility for himself and his little brother Ant (EVAN ROSS) squarely on his shoulders. While he does his best to keep Ant in school and out of the trouble that`s always lurking just around the corner in their South Atlanta neighborhood, sometimes it seem [...] »

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Basic Instinct 2
In the psychological thriller Basic Instinct 2, after re-locating from San Francisco to London, best-selling crime novelist Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) once again finds herself on the wrong side of the law.

Dr. Michael Glass (David Morrissey), a respected London criminal psychiatrist, is brought in by Scotland Yard detective Roy Washburn (David Thewlis) to perform a psychiatric profile [...] »

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Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Manny, Sid and Diego return in another incredible adventure. The Ice Age is coming to an end, and the animals are delighting in their new world: a melting paradise of water parks, geysers and tar pits. But when Manny, Sid and Diego discover that the miles of melted ice will flood their valley, they must warn everyone and somehow figure out a way to escape the coming deluge. [...] »

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Drawing Restraint 9
The latest film from experimental artist Matthew Barney concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation, continuing his interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto. The soundtrack is by Icelandic pop star Bj?rk. [...] »

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Americano
“Americano” centers around Chris McKinley (Jackson), a recent college graduate backpacking through Europe who savors his last three days of freedom before boarding the career fast track back in the United States. In Pamplona with two friends (Sharp and Ruthanna Hopper), Chris meets an Australian thrill-seeker (Barantini), a quintessential Spanish beauty (Varela) and an enigmatic provocateur (Dennis [...] »

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L`Enfant

Bruno, twenty. Sonia, eighteen. They live off Sonia’s benefit and the thefts committed by Bruno and the kids in his gang. Sonia has just given birth to Jimmy, their child. How can Bruno become a father, being so carefree and living as he does for the present, solely concerned about the money from his deals?

Dispossessed twenty-year old Bruno (J?r?mie Renier) lives with his eighteen-year-o [...] »

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