Gimme Skelter

Gimme Skelter

Review
“Gimme Skelter features a dangerous, bloodthirsty ‘family’ traveling in a van who decide to outdo a previous notorious ‘family’ by slaughtering every person in a remote small town. The frenzied, gore-spattered battle between the family and the surprisingly rambunctious citizens over a long night make up the core of this entertaining thriller. Sly & energetic. 4 stars.” – –John Oak Dalton, Micro-Cinema Scene

What if Charles Manson’s illegitimate son decided to follow in
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75th Annual Academy Awards Short Films

75th Annual Academy Awards Short Films

Short films have their own succinct pleasures, but they’re almost impossible to see outside of occasional festival screenings. So it’s delightful that all of the short animated and live-action films nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 have been packaged together for home viewing. The two American animated shorts are, perhaps unsurprisingly, comic–a Pixar snippet featuring characters from Monsters, Inc. and a clever sci-fi shaggy-dog story (“The ChubbChubbs!,” that year’s
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Alone and Restless: Director’s Cut

Alone and Restless: Director's Cut (Independent Film Showcase)

Engaged in a battle to control the downtown drug trade, Mace (Martin Seijo) must fight to maintain control of his street gang as a young hustler named Ponch (Allan Medina) tries to take him out. Caught in the middle of the drug war are homeless drifters Jason (Michael Thomas Dunn) and Molly (Jamie Belanger). The film is existential journey of life in the urban jungle. The film is a somber look at the challenges of poverty, drugs and homelessness in the inner city.This feature f
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A Woman of Independent Means

A Woman of Independent Means

This absorbing three-part series begins as Bess (Sally Field, fresh from Forrest Gump), a proper Dallas lady, marries Rob (Ghost’s Tony Goldwyn), her childhood sweetheart. All should be sunshine and roses, except Bess finds marriage unfulfilling. Rob, as she puts it, “has a purpose.” Despite her roles as wife and mother, Bess feels she lacks one of her own (14-year age difference aside, Field and Goldwyn make a convincing couple). Rob’s mother (My Left Foot’s Brenda Fricker) jo
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A Short History of Film

A Short History of Film

Review

A Short History of Film is a comprehensive and detailed overview of the last 100 years of international film history. It will prove to be a useful reference tool for all students of film, both in and out of the classroom. — Paula J. Massood, Brooklyn College, CUNYThis is the film history book we’ve been waiting for. — David Sterritt, Chairman, National Society of Film Critics
–This text refers to the

Hardcover
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The history of internation
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