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April 2012

April 22, 2012

Blue Like Jazz and other Podcasts

I have been busy podcasting over at Film Geek Radio. New episodes include discussions with...

April 19, 2012

Girl Model (Redmon and Sabin, 2011)

From an audience perspective--at least from my perspective--the initial response is a bit of shock...

April 14, 2012

The Queen of Versailles (Greenfield, 2012)

Not just one of the best documentaries at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Lauren...

April 11, 2012

Italy Love It or Leave It (Hofer and Ragazzi, 2011)

Italy Love It or Leave It is a modest film, almost modest enough to work.

April 10, 2012

The Waiting Room (Nicks, 2012)

Peter Nicks's The Waiting Room is the sort of documentary that advocates on either side...

March 2012

March 10, 2012

Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (Berinstein, 2012)

Dori Berinstein’s valentine to the iconic Broadway star is, like its subject matter, always affable

November 2011

November 05, 2011

The Other F Word (Nevins, 2011)

It is hard for me to say, precisely, when The Other F Word lost me...

November 04, 2011

Wrestling for Jesus (Clarke, 2011)

When asked to describe his film, director Nathan Clarke said in an interview, he likes...

September 2011

September 16, 2011

Tyrannosaur (Considine, 2011)

Hannah is in an abusive relationship (and that's the understatement of the year), and the...

September 14, 2011

The Kid With a Bike (Dardenne & Dardenne, 2011)

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have been so consistent and so dependable for the last fifteen...

April 2011

April 23, 2011

Gun Fight (Kopple, 2011)

I have spent the better part of a week since screening Barbara Kopple's Gun Fight...

April 20, 2011

The Grove: A Fight to Remember (Wilson, 2011)

The Grove: A Fight to Remember begins with, pretty much ends with, and is interspersed...

April 15, 2011

Hot Coffee (Saladoff, 2011)

Susan Saladoff's Hot Coffee is the documentary that Inside Job tried so hard to be,...

November 2010

November 06, 2010

John Sayles Interview

“You know, you can’t make a movie about war and occupation without it being about...

October 2010

October 03, 2010

Made in Dagenham — 1More Podcast Episode 7b

The film is as much about the relationships between these women and how they are...

September 2010

September 30, 2010

Amigo — 1More Podcast Episode 7a

In Part II of our Toronto International Film Festival wrap up, Cindy and I discuss...

September 27, 2010

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow — 1More Podcast Episode 7

In Part I of our Toronto International Film Festival Wrap for 2010, Cynthia L. Morefield...

September 16, 2010

Anything You Want (Mañas, 2010)

Botto plays Leo, a Spanish lawyer with a wife, child, and healthy masculine disgust at...

September 15, 2010

Tamara Drewe (Frears, 2010)

Stephen Frears's Tamara Drewe is essentially a Restoration sex comedy set in the English countryside.

September 14, 2010

Of Gods and Men (Beauvois, 2010)

I was glad that I saw Xavier Beauvois's Of Gods and Men on the same...

September 13, 2010

Never Let Me Go (Romanek, 2010)

I will cop to saying that Ishiguro is on my short list of greatest living...

September 11, 2010

Jucy (Alston, 2010)

I'm a little suspicious, though, about people who make films about their own friendships.

September 10, 2010

The Way (Estevez, 2010)

There's not a whole lot about Emilio Estevez's The Way that doesn't ring true. Given...

September 10, 2010

Inside Job (Ferguson, 2010)

A repeated hypothesis of Ferguson and his team was that such chutzpah comes from sustained...

August 2010

August 09, 2010

The Disappearance of Alice Creed (Blakeson, 2009)

The Disappearance of Alice Creed has all the ingredients of a horror-porn exploitation film, but...

April 2010

April 16, 2010

My Perestroika (Hessman, 2010)

These people, incidentally just as my own parents, were Lenin’s Pioneers growing up behind the...

April 14, 2010

Stonewall Uprising (Davis & Heilbroner, 2010)

If there was one moving, indelible image that I took away from the film, it...

April 10, 2010

Do It Again (Patton-Spruill, 2010)

Boston Globe music journalist Geoff Edgers states in his brief and lovable documentary Do It...

September 2009

September 21, 2009

TIFF 2009 Summary: Chalk

No pretentious film critic ever made himself look smarter than everyone else (or ahead of...

September 16, 2009

Leslie, My Name is Evil (Harkema, 2009)

Helter Skelter + Saved! + South Park with a dash of Rocky Horror Picture Show...