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Retrospective screenings are always a dicey proposition for a film festival. With your audience always hungry for the latest and the greatest bringing in old titles can be a sure fire way to bleed money at the box office. If your audience isn’t already familiar with the title they’ll generally pass it up for some Read more...

Walter Hill’s 1984 “Streets of Fire” is probably the only other film, besides John Carpenter’s “Big Trouble in Little China”, that I have a hard time convincing third parties that it’s really not as bad as they think it is. Unlike the screwball comedy elements of “Little China”, there is none of the humor or Read more...

Alexandra “Xan” Cassavetes’ involving Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession documents the all-consuming movie love of former Los Angeles-area pay-cable outlet Z Channel’s programmer Jerry Harvey, who, with little warning, killed his wife, then himself. The picture stops just short of overtly connecting the mania of a life lived through celluloid heroes with the demons that drove him Read more...

Why does an inflatable sex doll come to life and proceed on a journey of discovery looking to explore the human condition? It just does, apparently. Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s Air Doll is quietly unapologetic about its status as a winsome piece of magical realism long on wide-eyed charm and short on exposition. Based on the manga of the Read more...

Imagining yourself as Indiana Jones in the thick of adventure wasn’t difficult to accomplish during the 1980s. He was a fixture of screen heroism and pre-teen cool; a surrogate father for adolescent boys with unfathomable imaginations. However, what would happen if the adoration, that pure impulse of cinematic love, turned into extensive homespun flattery? What Read more...