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Written by Linda March 01, 2009
Squeals and audible gasps erupted several times during the screening that I attended of George Michael - A Different Story. Squeals and laughter of delight whenever snippets of early Wham!...
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Written by Linda March 01, 2009
If today's leaders, specifically George Dubya and his administration, would take the time to watch Errol Morris' documentary The Fog of War, by god, they might learn something. In fact,...
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Written by Linda March 01, 2009
Despite being a graduate of a "goddamn hippie college" and admittedly being sensitive to political correctness, I'm always pleased to see high and mighty uber-sensitive liberals squirm as a result...
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Written by Linda February 14, 2009
Let's start out by getting a few things right out in the open before we go any further. The subject of this documentary is Bob Flanagan, a "super-masochist" performance artist....
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Written by Linda February 14, 2009
Martha Plimpton: Humor. Intelligence. Talent. Imagination. Bravery. Skill. When you eliminate all those things, what have you got?
Ally Sheedy: Fuckability.
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Written by Linda February 07, 2009
My previous knowledge of singer Gram Parsons mainly consisted of the fact that he was a mentor and huge influence to Emmylou Harris, and is considered by many to be...
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Written by Linda February 07, 2009
Released just pre-2004 election in an attempt to debunk Michael Moore's blockbuster documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, Alan Peterson's FahrenHYPE 9/11 picks apart Moore's film bit by bit to attempt to cast...
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Written by Linda February 07, 2009
This was a real crowd-pleaser at the 2000 Seattle International Film Festival, as everyone knows that there is something about televangelism where you just can't look away. But then maybe...
movie*pie Reviews » Film Festivals
Written by Linda February 07, 2009
This engaging documentary retraces the story of Soviet photographer Evgueni Khaldei, who was a Jewish man hand-picked by Stalin himself to be his official photographer. Never mind that Khaldei's family...
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Written by Linda February 07, 2009
It shouldn't surprise me that books recounting the true heroic story of Ernest Shackleton's failed Antarctic expedition of 1914-1916 are becoming popular reading for corporate executives. After all, it is...
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