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Standard Operating Procedure

These days there’s a flood of documentaries examining the U.S. military operations that followed 9/11 in the name of a so-called...

Natasha Desianto

Film Movie Reviews

Redbelt

I can’t bring myself to love or hate this movie. It’s a film by David Mamet, one of the pre-eminent writers of our time, so it...

Henry Senecal

Film Movie Reviews

Fugitive Pieces

The third film from the Canadian born writer/director, Jeremy Podeswa, is no less a poignant drama of love and loss as it is...

James Famera

Film Movie Reviews

Anamorph

Willem Dafoe is the type of actor who is highly believable as the “man on the beat.” In Anamorph, the actor portrays Detective...

Ebony March

Film Interviews

Hats Off

With this feature-length documentary, filmmaker Jyll Johnstone affords us a glimpse at the history and day-to-day life of a remarkable...

Henry Senecal

Film Interviews

Son of Rambow

Imagine you’ve grown up in a world where television and movies are verboten. Now imagine someone sneaks you a contraband video...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Projections

CalArts Film/Video Showcase

Far from the suburban nothing of Valencia, California Institute of the Arts, the self-proclaimed “premier college for the study...

Sarah Bennett

Film Movie Reviews

Baby Mama

Following the footsteps of the successful Knocked Up and Juno, Baby Mama also explores pregnancy through comedy. In the movie,...

Michael Lee

Film Special Features

Hip-Hop 101: 'Yo! MTV Raps'

In 1988, MTV launched its first ever hip-hop show, “Yo! MTV Raps” hosted by Fab 5 Freddy, Ed Lover and Doctor Dre. The two-hour...

Josephine Basch

Film Movie Reviews

Then She Found Me

In Helen Hunt’s directorial feature film debut she plays April, a 39-year-old woman going through a midlife crisis of sorts....

Henry Senecal

Film Movie Reviews

Jellyfish

It seems the French would have a monopoly on existential drift, on chronicling people failing to make the right connections and...

Sam Roudman

Film Interviews

Four Minutes

Every once in a while, a film comes along that sparks an international viewing frenzy. Titles like Pulp Fiction, Crouching Tiger,...

Ebony March

Film Interviews

Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

What do you get when you add an airplane, a scared old lady, two stoners, a homemade bong and a one-way trip to Guantanamo Bay?...

James Dusenberry

Film Projections

Wholphin #6

Throw out your Book of the Month club and start subscribing to Wholphin, a DVD magazine specializing in rare and unseen short...

Sarah Bennett

Film Interviews

Deal, the Movie

Some people go to rehab, join support groups or go to therapy. Some people quit cold turkey. Other people, like Gil Cates Jr.,...

Lauren Rosenblum

Film Projections

Great to be Nominated, Pt. 5

For the last five years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has filled up every week from April through August with...

Sarah Bennett

Film Movie Reviews

Zombie Strippers

I mean ... Zombie Strippers. Low expectations from the get go, right? Porn star, household name, multimedia empire-building...

Bourbon With Brendan

Film Movie Reviews

Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?

How is it that our military, supposedly one of the most sophisticated in the world, has not yet found our number one adversary,...

Natasha Desianto

Film Movie Reviews

The Life Before Her Eyes

When a high school student goes on a killing spree in his suburban school, a true friendship is tested. Diana (Evan Rachel Wood)...

Kantreal Daniels

Film Movie Reviews

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

You’ve undoubtedly seen the billboards around town. They’re simple, yet effective. Thankfully, the film lives up to its ingenious...

Alexander L. Carpenter

Film Movie Reviews

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Though this documentary’s purpose is to state the case against bullying by the scientific community against those that propose...

Henry Senecal

Film Movie Reviews

Dark Matter

Liu Xing (Liu Ye) is a brilliant Chinese student studying cosmology in the United States. He subsists on boiled noodles and lives...

James Famera

Film Interviews

Kiss the Bride's Tori Spelling

In Kiss the Bride, Tori Spelling is a young woman in love and on the verge of marrying the man of her dreams. It’s a classic...

Henry Senecal

Film Interviews

The Forbidden Kingdom

Your cinematic dreams have come true: The Forbidden Kingdom stars martial arts legends Jackie Chan and Jet Li, side by side for...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

88 Minutes

Al Pacino has become a staple of the suspense thriller. Ever since his work in movies like Taylor Hackford’s The Devil’s Advocate...

Ebony March

Film Projections

COL-COA (City of Lights, City of Angels) Festival

Francophiles, foreign film buffs and expats alike will make their yearly decent upon the Director’s Guild headquarters the week...

Film Movie Reviews

The Take

Felix De La Pena (John Leguizamo) is going about his daily routine as a husband and father who also happens to be an armored...

Henry Senecal

Film Movie Reviews

Smart People

The title says it all – the film is about smart people. Dennis Quaid plays an unhappy and overweight Carnegie Mellon professor...

Keyvon Pierre

Film Movie Reviews

Orthodox Stance

If you have never seen Dmitriy Salita box, the idea of a documentary about an Orthodox Jewish boxer may not seem that striking....

Jonathan Knell

Film Movie Reviews

Leatherheads

Actor/director George Clooney plays the scoundrel to a “T” in this hilarious comedy celebrating the fun of the roaring ’20s,...

Jeff Bachman