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"I've been posting my blogs from the Denver International Film Festival over at Spout.com. I received a request for some blogs of films viewed and with the lure of some free tickets to Starz, I said sure (I'm writing them anyway). Syndicated Feed From:Latest entries from midgebop.blog-city.com " [More]

We Like to Drink, We Like to Play Rock 'n' Roll

The Unband--a world of frat par ...
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"I never lived in a frat nor attended frat parties. Yet, the world of Lexi Shabel's documentary on The Unband, helped me to attend my first frat party, complete with excessive male energy encased in a world of stupidity. If you love reading Drunkard, then this is the film for you. Even though I disliked the subject matter, found the world of male stupidity hitting an all-time asshole high, the film succeeds, and it was there that my attention stayed.Shabel brilliantly captures the essence of this band: dicks flying like metal beats, alcohol pouring through blitzed eyes, and a trio bonding through drink. The documentary follows the evolution of the band, with footage from early days interspersed with the boys years later, still trying to find a moment of stardom, even if it's to a lonely drunk in a random club. The camera continues to capture their desperation and spiral down, but ends with a positive sense of the boys finding their way out of their dicks, maturing a bit, even if the ... " [More]

The Last Romantic

I am a poet
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"The Nee brothers film, The Last Romantic, is a narrative journey through the eyes of its lead character, Calvin Wizzig (played by Adam Nee, half of the screenwriting/production team), an undiscovered poet waiting for the world to discover his talent. The film brilliantly follows the random adventures of Calvin as he journeys through NYC, attempting to find a publisher for his poems.I am a poet/I'm chivalry/I'm chastity/I mate for life/Do I mate for life/I'm fresh ideas echoes as we meet Calvin. He carries a little notebook, the home of his poems, which turn out to be simply two poems no more than a few lines, tucked between pages of doodles and letters back home to his sister Elizabeth. Calvin Wizzig is the last romantic, viewing life through a sometimes black & white grainy fantasy, complete with wafting accordion sounds and sultry women. Although Calvin claims his journey is to publish poems, he is really traveling to find love, searching for a home.Every bit of the film is p ... " [More]

View from a Grain of Sand

The power of women
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"Day two of festing brought a more serious feature, Meena Nanji's View From a Grain of Sand. The film travels thirty years of Afghanistan history, told through the lens of three women--a doctor, teacher, and activist. Roeena, Shapiro, and Wajeeha tell their stories from refugee camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. These women share their stories and fight, their losses and struggles, and ultimately their journey from lives of freedom to lives of survival in war ravaged Afghanistan. The documentary carries footage (captured by women activists hiding cameras under their burqas) of the Taliban beating women in burqas and the Taliban shooting of a woman in front of a huge audience in a stadium.Despite the hardships suffered, these women remain alive, committed to their lives and the lives of their fellow Afghan women. One has returned with her family to Afghanistan, attempting to live without running water and electricity. The other women remain in Pakistan, displaced from their homeland, ... " [More]

Bon Cop, Bad Cop

Two Cops, Two Attitudes, Two Pr ...
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"Canada oh canada--a film screening complete with a Canadian mounty. Friday night brought Bon Cop Bad Cop to the screen, a fast-action thriller directed by Eric Canuel. Two cops, different in attitude, different in language (English/French) come together because of a crime committed smack between Ontario and Quebec, their respective jurisdictions. Both men meet as they investigate the body, lodged clearly over a billboard with legs in one province and a head in the other. Bantering about whether the legs or the head locate the victim in a particular province is immediately interrupted by the men literally pulling the body apart. Sitting at polar extremes, David Boucher (Patrick Huard) and Martin Ward (Colm Feore) team together, an unlikely pair, attempting to solve the crime. The film combines a buddy cop movie action with comedy and throws in a subplot about the business of hockey, ultimately delivering two hours of screeching cars, barroom brawls, a bit of sex, and suspense. The ... " [More]

Nail Polish

Nail Polish
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""We learned to love that summer , We were 17…" plays as the credits to Nail Polish, a coming of age story set on the Joisey shore, scroll. Jane Ainbinder's film is told through the lens of Allison, an awkward teen who has recently lost her mother. Allison spends the summer before college with her friend Becky, navigating the sexual terrain of beach life. Becky, a free spirit with an ultimate ambition of going to college, getting married, making babies, and retiring to Florida, tries to guide Allison in the world of boys, giving advice on dress and conversation. Despite the advice, Allison constantly mis-steps, finding solace in a world of daydreams, a place where her dead mother's gentle smile comes alive and guides her. Ainbinder accents the separate worlds of Becky and Allison not only in their behavior, but through their speech--Becky has a thick Joisey accent while Allison does not.The summer is supposed to help Allison heal from the loss of her mother, but instead, it ends up ... " [More]