Looking at this as a standalone feature should help it hold up on its own.
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Movie Review: ‘Jamie Marks Is Dead’
'Jamie Marks is Dead,' a Sundance Selection, is bound to become a cult classic for its deep, moody, scary, and seductive tale of adolescent confusion carried over into the world of the dead. It is based on the novel 'One for Sorrow' by Christopher Barzak.
Read More »‘Varsity Blood’ DVD Review
Avoid "Varsity Blood" at all costs.
Read More »Anthem Film Fest: Countryside vs. City – Two Wars
An attack on Vietnam veterans – I suddenly felt like I was back at UCLA in 1971.
Read More »Anthem Film Fest: Mind Reboot
Two of the documentaries at the Anthem Film Festival caused my brain to do a reboot.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘All Cheerleaders Die’
Has some fun even while wallowing in some tried and true genre tropes.
Read More »Anthem Film Fest: ‘Cough’ – A Must-Watch for Filmmakers
Cough is a sci-fi tale set in Australia in the not-to-distant future where people have traded freedom for safety. Says the tagline: "Civil Liberties are Yesterday."
Read More »Anthem Film Fest: A Dark Future, but with a Few Laughs
Two products of a libertarian guerrilla film movement in the mountains of the west that are worth seeing.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘The Purge: Anarchy’
DeMonaco still never gets his point across amidst the bloodshed.
Read More »Anthem Film Fest – ‘America: Imagine the World Without Her’
This is not a boring history lecture. It is more like an historical drama.
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