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  • Film Review: ME @ THE ZOO (directed by Chris Moukarbel and Valerie Veatch)

    By Jason Rohrer | January 23, 2013
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    WHY THE CAGED BOY SINGS Chris Moukarbel and Valerie Veatch’s Me @ the Zoo proves the storytelling truism that the big picture may be effectively presented via minutiae.   Directed with great ingenuity and intelligence, edited from thousands of video clips as if by the gods of order, the movie uses a few years in the…

  • Film/VOD Review: TELL YOUR FRIENDS! THE CONCERT FILM! (directed by Victor Varnado)

    By Ella Martin | January 17, 2013
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    DOCUSTANDUP Victor Varnado and Liam McEneaney’s comedy documentary is simple and a little grungy, in tune with the unpretentious vibe at Tell Your Friends, a weekly indie show at Lolita Bar where alternative and mainstream comedians “workshop new material and feel free to fuck around” (Liam McEneaney, founder and host). After a bland opening musical…

  • DVD Review: THE DUST BOWL (PBS Distribution)

    By John Topping | November 12, 2012
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    A DISASTER WORSE THAN MOST OF US EVER KNEW In elementary school, for me, “Dust Bowl” was little more than two words that had to be memorized for tests in history classes that unfailingly failed to make history interesting.   Sure, I heard the term often enough that some kind of image formed…but it was not…

  • Documentary Film Review: TERRA BLIGHT (directed by Isaac Brown)

    By Ella Martin | October 30, 2012
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    SHARP ECO-ETHIC SMACKDOWN From start to finish Isaac Brown’s Terra Blight is a fantastic, formidable exposé of the intensifying environmental damage caused by the technological revolution of the late 20th century. Effectively juxtaposing American excess with the poverty of the third world developing countries’”in whose backyards our electronic waste is unceremoniously dumped’”the film makes a…

  • DVD Review: FUNKYTOWN (directed by Daniel Roby)

    By Tom Chaits | October 5, 2012
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    SEX DRUGS AND DISCO HIT FUNKYTOWN When the opening scene of a film features a naked couple doing the nasty accompanied by a voiceover which states, “There is no rhyme or reason to life. You think you’re doing okay and the next thing you know, you’re miles away from home, in bed with a stranger,…

  • DVD Review/Commentary: THE FABRIC OF THE COSMOS (PBS NOVA series)

    By John Topping | December 3, 2011
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    WEIRD SCIENCE If you’re like me, you’re someone who is fascinated by science now, as an adult, but hated it back in school.   Why was something so fascinating presented as such drudgery?   If a teacher can’t capture a student’s imagination, it’s pointless. So after years of straight Ds (which I think were mercy passings so…

  • DVD Commentary: TRANSCENDENT MAN: THE LIFE AND IDEAS OF RAY KURZWEIL (Docurama Films)

    By John Topping | June 17, 2011
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    WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO? In the mid-1970s, an exciting new video game captured the nation and ushered in the video game revolution as we know it today. Â  If you were around then, you undoubtedly knew someone who had it hooked up to their TV; or you might have stopped at a bar that…

  • DVD Review: STONEWALL UPRISING (PBS)

    By John Topping | April 23, 2011
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    THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE DARK AGES FOR SAME SEX ORIENTATION I am going to guess – and I’d love to be wrong – that the majority of gay men under the age of 35 know little or nothing about the Stonewall Riots. Â  This would be analogous to African Americans not knowing about…

  • TV/DVD Review: HOW SMART ARE ANIMALS? & CAN WE MAKE IT TO MARS? (NOVA scienceNOW on PBS Home Video)

    By John Topping | March 22, 2011
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    BEYOND NEAT TRICKS When Neil deGrasse Tyson, the host of the video magazine NOVA scienceNOW, was a guest on The Daily Show recently, Jon Stewart complimented him for finally “making science cool.” And it is cool to have Tyson, an approachable, gentle presence, representing the wonders of science. If only we’d had someone like him…

  • MAD RON’S PREVUES FROM HELL – reissue of 1987 VHS tape – DVD Review

    By John Topping | September 8, 2010
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    YAWNS, GIGGLES, AND SHRIEKS It takes so long to see the first preview in the DVD reissue of the 1987 VHS curiosity Mad Ron’s Prevues From Hell that one begins to wonder if it will ever make good on its promise of showing them. Â  For the first ten minutes we are, ahem, “treated” to ventriloquist…

  • DVD Reviews prior to August 2010

    By John Topping | September 1, 2010
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    DVD Reviews 2010 How I Got Lost (Caroline Hagood) North Face (Colin George) Word Is Out (Harvey Perr) 2009 The Universe of Keith Haring (Pamela Lewis) 2008 Bad Meat (Chad Menville) Big Ideas for a Small Planet (Chad Menville) Black Christmas (John Topping) The Cool School (Chad Menville) Confessions of a Superhero (John Topping) Death…

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