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FILM: Whitey: United States Of America V. James J. Bulger

A ‘was he/wasn’t he’ quandary is at the heart of Whitey: United States Of America V. James J. Bulger the new documentary from Magnolia Pictures and director Joe Berlinger. If not one of the most infamous, certainly one of the most compelling American criminals of the past century and famous fugitive, Bulger ruled the Boston neighborhoods where More...

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By Ralph Greco On Thursday, July 24th, 2014
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FILM: A Most Wanted Man

You want to talk about feeling the loss of a great actor: mere minutes into director Anton Corbijn’s  A Most Wanted Man, even knowing this was one of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last movies I forget it’s More...

By Genie Davis On Thursday, July 17th, 2014
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FILM: I Origins

No, I Origins is not a new Apple product. Rather, this is an impressive, moving exploration of science, faith, love, and what makes us human couched inside a tactile love story and a fascinating mystery. Created More...

By Genie Davis On Thursday, July 10th, 2014
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FILM: Land Ho!

Land Ho! is a delightful buddy comedy set in the intensely beautiful country of Iceland. Two longtime friends are approaching seventy, a typical pair of opposites a la The Odd Couple. There’s carpe-diem Mitch More...

By Ralph Greco On Thursday, July 3rd, 2014
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FILM: Life Itself

As one of our most influential and celebrated film critics, Roger Ebert would know full well that a good documentary needs to show “warts and all” of its subject. Life Itself, the new documentary about the life, More...

By Genie Davis On Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
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FILM: Cold in July

It’s going to be chilly in May when Cold in July opens in Los Angeles this coming week. Viewed at the Sundance film festival in January, this pulpy tale directed by Jim Mickle and set in Texas was one of my favorites. Of More...

By Ralph Greco On Wednesday, May 21st, 2014
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FILM: Cold In July

I’ll admit to a certain prejudice for pre-liking (is that a word?) the new film Cold In July from IFC films. Based on the book of the same name, written by one of my all time favorite writers Joe R. Lansdale More...

By Michael Bishop On Friday, April 18th, 2014
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Juvenile Incarceration: America’s Prison Complex

Designed both to outrage and inform, Robert May’s latest documentary film, Kids for Cash, reveals a troubling case of judicial abuse surrounding Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. But what makes May’s document more More...

By Amy Hamblen On Friday, April 11th, 2014
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FILM: Dom Hemingway starring Jude Law

It may take a second glance to recognize the pompous prisoner with the muscles and sideburns in Richard Shepard’s comic adventure Dom Hemingway is actually heartthrob Jude Law. Hemingway is a safecracker back More...

By Tim Needles On Thursday, March 27th, 2014
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FILM: Finding Vivian Maier

Street photographer Vivian Maier was a nanny who’s photographs only became known and appreciated after her death and her story is as amazing as it is incomplete and at times frustrating. The new documentary More...