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Nobody Else But You
Nobody Else But You is a light neo-noir French thriller about a celebrity model that hides behind her famous figure in public while her personal life is crumbing around her. Her sudden death inspires a writer to become a detective to try to solve the murder mystery. Aside from the dialog and the plentiful use of male nudity, the film felt more American than it did French. |
Watch: The Do-Deca Pentathlon trailer
Dustin Jansick May 17, 2012 0
Before Jay and Mark Duplass directed Cyrus or Jeff, Who Lives At Home the brothers shot The Do-Deca Pentathlon. Perhaps being put on the radar as of late with larger budget hits was what the indie duo needed in order to revive this project. The Do-Deca Pentathlon premiered at this year’s SXSW Film Festival and has been picked up by Red Flag Releasing and Fox Searchlight.
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Urbanized
Urbanized is the third and final documentary installment of the design trilogy by Gary Hustwit. First, Hustwit focused on how one typeface that is everywhere is often overlooked in Helvetica before moving on to showing how industrial design affects our daily lives with Objectified. In this film it literally gives us a street level view of the design of cities and how urban planning affects us. |
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The Double Hour
Some call The Double Hour a foreign art house thriller while I would lean slightly more toward film nior, maybe it’s all of the above. I saw glimpses of Tell No One in this heart pounding Italian thriller from all of the twists and turns in the plot. One thing is for certain, the film begs to be watched more than once. |
Watch: “Your Sister’s Sister” trailer
Dustin Jansick May 3, 2012 0
My ears perk up every time I hear the name Mark Duplass. It seems like he has really exploded as of late, whether it be directing or acting he is everywhere and I am not complaining. The last film he directed, Jeff Who Lives At Home, was highly reviewed by us.
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Marianne
It’s hard to criticize a movie like Marianne considering its ambitions. Aside from a few surprises over the years the horror genre has mostly been dead in the water, and Marianne has the balls to try and put more of an emphasis on its dramatic storyline instead of its intriguing horror elements. Despite the marketing and ghostly image on the DVD cover, the scares in Marianne are only a subplot. While it’s refreshing to see a genre film try and treat its characters other than victims and survivors, Marianne doesn’t succeed at what it wants to do and ends up feeling like two mediocre films being awkwardly shoved together. |
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Aunt Martha – Bloodshot EP
They are a small folk band from Norway, ME, and they have, for lack of a better word, incredibly charming music. Aunt Martha is composed of three members (Tim, Garrett and Brian) and they are all very talented musicians. I am not usually one to get into folk music but when an Aunt Martha song comes up on my iPod, I never hit ‘skip’. |
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Shame
Steve McQueen’s Shame is a mesmerizing film about a man that has a severe addiction to sex who finds it impossible to have emotions around others. The film is dark and depressing with shame present in each of the characters eyes. But the true shame here is that the film will not be seen by most because of the NC-17 rating it received, a true shame. |
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In the Family
In the Family is an indie first feature film from writer, director, and lead actor Patrick Wang. The film is about a man who must deal with the loss of his same-sex partner and the subsequent legal battles he must endure. The film carefully paces, sometimes too slowly, to show how powerful hope can be. |
