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Swarez\'s Top Ten of 2009
My list consists of some studio products, festival favorites and a few that deserve a wider audience.Happy New Year yall!Van Diemen's Land The first film I saw at this year's Fantastic Fest and the one I think stuck with me the most. The depute feat...
NINE review
For what wants to be a simple, breezy musical, the act of even explaining the origins of "Nine" can be exhausting. But, I'll give it a shot... Based on Federico Fellini's autobiographical cinema classic "8 ½", "Nine" made i...
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG review
Effortlessly looking forward while also looking back, "The Princess and the Frog" is the most satisfying animated Disney film in at least a decade. Much care has been put into it, and it absolutely shows. Children, parents, and animation aficionados...
Black Metal documentary UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US review
Co-directors Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites weren't black afficianados when a friend of theirs at Amoeba Records in San Francisco turned the two indy-music fans onto a sub-genre, that strangely enough, these days is also being appreciated by even the...
Today\'s "What The Hell?" Moment Comes Courtesy Of Russian Musical SKAZKA XXI (Сказка-XXI)
Admittedly, I know very little about upcoming Russian film Skazka XXI and I must concede the possibility that maybe, perhaps, this would all make more sense if I understood the context. But I doubt it. Here's what I do know:It is the pr...
Trailer For MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT THEE MOVIE Arrives!
Big, big thanks to Kevin at Nippon Cinema for digging this one up. My utter Japanese illiteracy was preventing me from finding it myself and it was making me more than a little crazy ...Back in late July news of the untimely death of Futoshi ...
[SOUTH ASIAN REVIEWS] கந்தசாமி (Kanthaswamy)
With super powers come super responsibilities.If there's anything that India's insanely vibrant and varied film culture has taught us to expect, that is its continued defiance of any and all expectations. And when it comes to Kollywood, Tamil Nadu's...
Chicken Superheroes Save (?) the World in Tamil Blockbuster கந்தசாமி (Kanthaswamy)
We've had batmen, spidermen, zebramen, but wait for it.... Chicken Man is coming, courtesy of Kollywood (the Tamil "cousin" of Bollywood, if you will). Susi Ganesan's fourth feature film கந்தசாமி (Kanthaswamy) is - at least on paper ...
3RD I 2009: Frako Loden Previews the Line-up
[Our sincere thanks to Frako Loden for contributing her preview of this year's 3rd i line-up to the Twitch readership.] All the leaves are brown, and the skies are gray. November is here, and so is the most excellent 3rd i, or the San Francisco In...
