Semper Fi: Always Faithful is a documentary chronicling the struggle to make the public aware, and the Marine Corps/Government admit to their gross negligence in dealing with contaminated water at a variety of Marine Corps, and other, military bases across the United States of America. The main subject of the documentary is Marine Corps Master […]
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The Fall 2011 Movie Preview
The fall/holiday movie season is just around the corner. From September to December a variety of new movies will be released; from the expected horror’s in October to the Oscar bait that begins in November, the fall season never ceases to be a time to go to the movies. Here is a run-down of what […]
Film Rave: Magic Trip (Dir. Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood)
The 1960s, a time of free love and drugs aplenty. The “hippie subculture” of this era took root around 1965, spawning a worldwide counter culture movement that still has remnants in today’s society. How this new subculture was established, and spread so quickly around the globe, can be attributed to a variety of factors. Ask […]
Film Review: Mysteries of Lisbon (Dir. Raúl Ruiz 2010)
That Raúl Ruíz describes his new film as his most theoretical might seem a bit daunting. He’s made over 100 movies in 30 years and they’re all pretty theoretical, from The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1979), to Time Regained (1999). Plus, the new one’s a four and half-hour nineteenth-century drama. The theoretical aspect […]
Film Rave: ‘Weekend’ (Dir. Andrew Haigh 2011)
Andrew Haigh’s film Weekend concerns Russell (Tom Cullen) and Glen (Chris New), two young British men who meet at a bar one Friday night and embark on a 48 hour affair. Haigh’s emotionally honest scripting and the pitch-perfect performances by Cullen and New lend poignancy and unexpected intimacy to this story of a brief but […]