All posts by Brett
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Mandatory Inglorious Bastards Update
Okay, since it got a lot of press in the trades today, here’s a quick recap of what’s...
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Review: ‘Garden Party’
Los Angeles has more than earned a reputation as a destroyer of worlds, swallowing up naive little sweethearts...
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LA Film Fest 2008 Final Thoughts
So the LA Film Fest is over, and it’s time to say a few words. The consensus seems...
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Review: ‘American Son’ LAFF ’08
Fourth of July weekend is a good a time as any for an appraisal of the dilemmas facing...
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LAFF ’08 : Salute Your Shorts
Here to bring a little entertainment to your pre-Fourth of July festivities, here is a small sampling of...
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Review: ‘Boy A’ LAFF ’08
“The past does not equal the future” a character notes in Boy A, but it seems the past...
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Review: “Ballast” LAFF 08
A majority of films set in the south of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama tend to extol the culture...
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Review: “X-Cross” LAFF 08
If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times; a young pair of Japanese girls head...
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Review: ‘Choke’ LAFF 08
Based on cult author Chuck Palahniuk’s 2001 novel, Choke has been a long time coming. A literal 7...
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Review: ‘Prince of Broadway’ LAFF 08
Thank goodness for the La Film Fest and its general lack of organization. I was originally trying to...
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Review: ‘The Pleasure Of Being Robbed’ LAFF 08
In Joshua Safdie’s debut feature, The Pleasure of Being Robbed, we are offered a confusing world of discarded...
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Review: ‘Man On Wire’ LAFF 08
A rag-tag team of foreigners comes together to pull off a gig in New York, the job to...
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Review: ‘Elite Squad’ LAFF 08
The realities of crime and corruption in Rio de Janiero are not completely new to audiences, thanks to...
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Review: ‘Encounters At The End Of The World’ LAFF 08
Werner Herzog’s documentaries are always a little offbeat, with his signature voice and pattern of questioning guiding the...
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Review: ‘The Order of Myths’ LAFF 08
15 years before New Orleans started the Mardi Gras celebrations that it would eventually become famous for, another...
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Review: ‘Baghead’ LAFF 08
‘Baghead’ gets a little meta right from the start; after our formal introduction to it by our festival...
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Los Angeles Film Festival ’08 – Schedule Update 6/22
Global warming continues to try to kill everyone here with ridiculous heat, but so far so good on...
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Discuss: ‘The Happening’ … the greatest B-Movie ever?
Say what you will about the man’s movies, one thing that has been gradually growing out of check...
