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You Are What You Watch: Found Footage Porn Thriller "Lucky Bastard"

Posted on 4/5/2013 12:01:00 PM by Sean Fitz-Gerald

In Lucky Bastard, his first feature film, director Robert Nathan explores a culture in which porn is both taboo and readily available Read More

Forget Brunch, the Apocalypse is Here: Q&A with Filmmaker Todd Berger

Posted on 3/5/2013 10:10:00 AM by Sean Fitz-Gerald

There are no bomb shelters or flesh-eating zombies but there's plenty of awkwardness, bickering, and sexual tension when the eschaton presents itself -- during brunch, no less. Read More

Spotlight on Oscar Docs: "How to Survive a Plague"

Posted on 2/22/2013 3:04:00 PM by Sean Fitz-Gerald

In the 1990s, Greenwich Village became the epicenter of the AIDS pandemic – and the activists who banded together to fight it, the subject of filmmaker David France's documentary. Read More

"Absolutely Anything" Reunites (Some Of) Monty Python

Posted on 2/7/2013 12:45:00 PM by Sean Fitz-Gerald

Robin Williams has taken on a lot of peculiar roles and performed with a nutty bunch of co-stars, but his latest project might take the cake: He'll be playing a talking dog alongside three original members of Monty Python. Read More

Raging Against the Machine: Filmmaker Antonino D’Ambrosio

Posted on 1/25/2013 12:24:00 PM by Sean Fitz-Gerald

Antonino D’Ambrosio, the director of Let Fury Have the Hour, is no stranger to telling it like it is. Read More

Beasts of the Southern Wild Now Back in Theaters

Posted on 1/18/2013 11:19:00 AM by Sean Fitz-Gerald

After earning four Oscar nominations, Benh Zeitlin’s powerhouse indie drama Beasts of the Southern Wild will be storming its way back into theaters starting today. Read More

Let Fury Have the Hour: Art, Activism, and the Politics of Both

Posted on 1/16/2013 11:15:00 AM by Sean Fitz-Gerald

The documentary Let Fury Have the Hour chronicles the artistic counterculture of the 1980s and '90s, the skateboards, punk rock, hip-hop, reggae, theater, and dance that served as a bracing corrective to mainstream consumerism. Read More