Film Reviews
A Review: Starving Artists
A review of the Closing Night Feature for August's Woods Hole Film Festival in Cape Cod.
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Review of Old Man Dogs
While the film is marred with a few technical difficulties, it's a beautifully shot first effort by Bill Millios that makes scenic use of its New Hampshire location.
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Review of Vermont Hit: Man With a Plan
Normally, I'm not a big fan of art involving cows. In fact, I might have once argued that such an art form didn't exist. A recent viewing of John O'Brien's Man with a Plan, however, changed my mind.
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Miss India Georgia
Highlighted this month, Cambridge filmmakers 'Miss India Georgia airs on PBS.
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Primary Colors
Unlike its fellow well-timed thinly-veiled Clinton-commentary Wag the Dog, Primary Colors has neither a satiric edge nor really much of anything to say.
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The North End: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down?
Read two opposing reviews about the locally produced film 'The North End.'
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History—the Hollywood Way
That Steven Spielberg. Always finding the cheery side of historical atrocities. Watching Amistad makes you yearn for Spielberg’s hard-hitting, unsentimental work. Like E.T.
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Good Will Hunting: A Review
This much acclaimed local film by famed director Gus Van Sant drew lines outside the Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge, Massachusetts even on New Year's Eve. What can you expect from this New England gem? Read and find out...
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Review of Black and White and Red All Over
The screenwriting/directing team of DeMane Davis, Harry McCoy, and Khari Streeter shows, in spite of the heavy-handed title, that there is nothing black and white about these lives.
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Fast, Cheap & Out of Control: A Review
Multilegged insectlike robots, human and animal circus performers, a black-and-white adventure series — no image is too odd for Errol Moris's camera. And that's just the opening credits...
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