I’m not sure whom it was, but a smarter man than I once said, “There are only a few things you can really count on: death, taxes, and Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation.” Or something along those lines. The point is, every year since 1990, Spike and Mike have made the […]
Michael Filtz
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Of Fascists and Hipsters
Revisiting Bertolucci’s The Conformist
I have this friend who has this problem. He’s never cool enough, and he constantly feels inadequate, like he’ll never fit in those cool hipster circles. I—uh, I mean, my friend—was really down about this, so I told him to watch Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist to get some perspective. See, in The Conformist—which was first […]
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Nazis, Jack, and… BLECH!
Succinct Reviews for the Discerning Cinephile
Wilby Wonderful is repeatedly described in its press materials as a comedy—albeit a dark comedy, a bittersweet comedy. This is pretty misleading, as the
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Samurais and Whores
Succinct Reviews for the Discerning Cinephile
Wal-Mart does such a good job of shooting themselves in the foot that siccing Robert Greenwald—the director of previous
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Sex, Suicide, PISS
Succinct Reviews for the Discerning Cinephile
24 Hours on Craigslist is structured around a series of interviews with
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All Gayed Up and Nowhere to Go
Hits and Misses at the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Now in its ninth year, the 2005 Lesbian and Gay Film Festival hits Cinema 21 at the
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Top Gun on the Links
Succinct Reviews for the Discerning Cinephile
The Greatest Game Ever Played dir. Paxton Opens Fri Sept 30 Various Theaters If somebody were to ask me to compile a list of things I couldn’t care less about, two topics would immediately spring to the top of that list: “golf” and “class struggle in early 20th-century America.” Unfortunately, these two subjects are the […]