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Art School Confidential

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  • Title: Art School Confidential
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Have you or anyone you’ve known gone to art school?  If the answer is yes than this deliciously on-the-nose look will have you chuckling from the get-go.  Not the funniest or most complete film of director Terry Zwigoff‘s career, but it has more than enough worth seeing to make me recommend it to you.

Jerome (Max Minghella) is the sensitive shy artist you knew in high school always sketching something on his pad.  Of course this means he got beat up quite a lot as the film aptly presents.  More than anything he wants to become a great artist. 

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Kinky Boots

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  • Title: Kinky Boots
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Okay you’ve seen this one before.  This light-hearted English comedy where people learn to accept people and ideas that are thrust into their lives and everyone, despite the troubles they go through during the film, lives happily ever after.  To this much overused mix we add RazorFine favorite Chiwetel Ejiofor in drag and a conservative shoe factory producing shoes for women who are men who dress like women.  The odd mix creates some enjoyable, if sometimes unoriginal, fun.

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Hard Candy

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  • Title: Hard Candy
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Hard Candy

A two actor performance piece about a a deranged and vindictive 14 year-old girl and a pedophile. Yeah…you might say this isn’t exactly for everybody. I saw the film in a mostly empty theater during a press screening and I’m pretty sure I would not want to view it in a crowded one. It’s an intensely uncomfortable experience that never quite justifies what it puts the audience through, but there are points to, well not exactly enjoy, but at least appreciate.

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V for…

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  • Title: V for Vendetta
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“People should not be afraid of their governments; governments should be afraid of their people.”

Here’s what I learned from V for Vendetta: 1). I never, ever, want anyone to try and make Watchmen into a film.  2). Even when you gut a great graphic novel of some of its best material it can still come out well on screen.  3). I have an even deeper appreciation for Sin City.  The Wachowksi adaptation (Moore pulled his own name off the project) isn’t the graphic novel, but it does have something worth watching.  I would have preferred a more faithful adaption to this remodeled version, but what we do get is still quite good; sadly though the source material demands it to be great.  My immediate reaction to the film is mostly positive yet conflicted and wistful of what could have been.

Our hero is a terrorist that blows up half the town (and that’s not even half as bad as what he does to those he “likes”).  Alan Moore gave us a dim future about a totalitarian regime in London and one lone man who wants to bring it all crashing down, and achieve vengeance for what was done to him by the system in the name of progress.

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Eight Below

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  • Title: Eight Below
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Eight Below movie reviewThe film starts off with a notice that the story is inspired by real events.  Usually such a notice means we’re going to see something that someone’s friend of a friend heard about that happened and then is given the Hollywood treatment to make it even less believable.  Although there is some of that present the makers of the film tried to limit it and stay true to the story, and the end result is surprisingly good.

Gerry (Paul Walker) is a guide at a remote Antarctic research base who works by taking people out on with his sled dogs on various scientific explorations.  Gerry treats the dogs more like family than pets and his love for them is unwavering.  At the end of the season a scientist (Bruce Greenwood) arrives to look for a meteorite and despite Gerry’s strong concerns and objections he takes him out (cue suspenseful music here).

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