Kill the Habit is a film I found difficult to care about. It carried an interesting idea but didn’t get off the ground. Galia (Lili Mirojnick) wants drugs. She visits her source at an apartment, and in an argument, bashes him in the head. Trying to leave she ends up selling white powder before she […]
Read more →Screenings: 2/2, 9:15 PM (Rep); 2/27, 11:59 PM (Cam 12); 3/1, 9:15 PM (Cal) This film seems to fancy itself a cross between “Waiting for Godot” and “American Psycho,” but it fails on both fronts. Sure, it has long, rambling, pseudo-intellectual discussions between its protagonists, and it’s offering a commentary on American culture, but it’s […]
Read more →Screenings: 2/27, 9:30 PM (Rep); 3/2, 6:45 PM (Cam12); 3/5, 12:00 PM (Cam12) All Gaila ( Lili Mirojnick, “Cloverfield”) wanted was to pick up some coke from her dealer, Lyle, and leave. But when an argument with him ends with Lyle dead on the floor, her plans for the day require some serious changes. She […]
Read more →Cinequest 2009 “How To Be”, directed by Oliver Irving, is one of those films you can enjoy if you catch it, and not miss if you miss it. It comes under radar, not carrying a big punch. Art hasn’t made much of his life to date and has allowed his parents disappointment to be his […]
Read more →Cinequest 2009 “Capers” is a happy little ditty. Really. Take three groups of sad sacks, each wanting Connie’s treasure to bring about changes in their own lives, schedule three simultanious break-in buglaries, throw in a delightfully uncaring sullen fence of stolen goods, and you’ve got a hit film. In competition for the valuables in Connie’s […]
Read more →Screenings: February 26, 7:00 PM (Cal); February 27, 4:30 PM (Rep); March 1, 9:30 PM (Cam 12) Things are tough in New York since 9/11. Your photo ID has to match what you actually look like. Fences are picky about what stolen stuff they’ll fence. A forged green card is expensive. Nobody is paying up […]
Read more →Opening Night: February 25, 7:00 PM (Cal) Carys (Bijou Phillips, “Choke”) is an unusual gal who attends the funerals of strangers looking for something ineffable. She meets Tyler (Ian Somerhalderl, “Pulse”), the fiance of the dead individual at one of the funerals she crashes. She manages to accidentally steal the dead girl’s wedding ring, but […]
Read more →Screenings: February 28, 7:15 PM (Cal); March 2, 7:00 PM (Cal). Art (Robert Pattinson of “Twilight” and the “Harry Potter” films) is a desperately unhappy struggling musician in London. His girlfriend dumps him, his friends don’t understand him, and his relationship with his parents is thoroughly dysfunctional. Desperate for a change, he turns to self-help […]
Read more →Screenings: February 28, 6:30pm (Cam 12); February 29, 9:30pm (Cam 12); March 2, 1:30pm (Cam 12) The opening scenes of “Disfigured” ring so true that they feel like a documentary. It quickly becomes clear that this is not, in fact, a documentary — but it often feels as if it were. “Disfigured” tells the story […]
Read more →Screenings: March 6, 9:15pm (Cam 12); March 7, 4:15pm (Cam 12) Taylor is no longer young, but she’s still single and wondering why she can’t seem to find a decent guy and get the wedding she dreamed of when she was a girl. Her friends, the mildly predatory alcoholic Dot, winsome and promiscuous Katy, and […]
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