Animation Block – Review
LOWbASIC – Review

LOWbASIC – Review
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 Screening in Gallery Shorts Block 3, LOWbASIC is a unique short by Director Frank Rinaldi, winner of 2009’s Slamdance Grand Jury Award for Best Experimental Film … read more

I Am Comic – Review

I Am Comic – Review
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 I Am Comic delivers big laughs and a glimpse into the world of a professional comedian … read more

Play! A Video Game Symphony

Play! A Video Game Symphony
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Play! is a concert series that combines the host city’s orchestra with a production company, music director and conductors who travel from venue to venue, performing music from popular video games. The music, naturally, was brilliant. I bought the CD, and I almost got the T-shirt but I crumbled under my nerd shame before managing to.  … read more

She Was My Brother

She Was My Brother
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She Was My Brother is a mostly-fictional account of a love triangle between a “third gendered” Native American of the Zuni tribe and two Caucasian ethnologists studying the Zunis.  See, American natives had this whole ‘acceptance and equality for alternative genders and sexualities’ thing pinned down centuries before our “civilized” culture even deemed it lawful to broach a discussion on such a topic.   … read more

An Evening in Canterbury

An Evening in Canterbury
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Held at the Murray Theatre, An Evening in Canterbury combined an authentic 14th century seven course meal with amateur theatre and abundant cosplay. We were in the minority, with most folks decked out in bright felt renditions of Middle English Garb. The alcohol-free event consisted of four of Chaucer’s tales narrated by actors milling through the audience, while up on stage the rest of the cast performed a rough pantomime of the events. … read more

Shorts Block 1

Shorts Block 1
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Ah, the shorts blocks.  The true pith of any indie film festival.  If you want to see the raw kernel of passion that’s supposed to be the whole reason for these festivals in the first place, the shorts blocks are where you want to be.  Also, if a movie so happens to really suck a nut, its runtime’s about fifteen minutes, so you can probably sit through it. … read more

Shorts Block 2

Shorts Block 2
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Another four-course meal of indie cinema – dig in! … read more

Silver Tongues

Silver Tongues
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Two lovers on the method-acting road trip from hell! – A smart, savage film. … read more

The Beast Pageant

The Beast Pageant
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I’d want to get away from it all too, if my life consisted of feeding pills to dead fish for a living… … read more