Review: Graffiti TV: The Best Of

Review: Graffiti TV: The Best Of
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Graffiti TV is straight from the mid-90s. Everything from the shaky cameras, poor film quality, flannel shirts and bad, bad haircuts were reminiscent of a home movie. … read more

Review: America’s Mexican

Review: America’s Mexican
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America’s Mexican George Lopez HBO Home Video Street: 07.03 WHITE PEOPLE TALK LIKE THIS, LATINO PEOPLE TALK LIKE THIS. Now that I have that out of the way, I can say that George Lopez was able to get most of that material out of the way within the first 15 minutes of this DVD. There’s

Review: The Seeker In Forever

Review: The Seeker In Forever
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The Seeker In Forever Alan Fox StoryFocus Communications Street: 09.07 A fascinating comedy by Alan Fox that pulls you into a dream-like world where one man battles to prove the way to peace is not war. Emerging in an effort to confront an establishment that has taken the power from the people, this young man

Review: Billy Childish is Dead: a film by Graham Bendel

Review: Billy Childish is Dead: a film by Graham Bendel
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Billy Childish is Dead: a film by Graham Bendel Cherry Red Films Street: 2005 This is a full-length documentary film that sets out to offer insight into the life and art of Billy Childish. The film’s director followed Childish around for several months, through art openings, band performances, poetry readings and down time at home. The

 
 
Review: Comedy of Errors

Review: Comedy of Errors
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Comedy of Errors Claude Chabrol Koch Lorber Street 05.01 Isabelle Huppert plays the little salmon swimming upstream as a French investigator trying to put the kibosh on a ring of dirty big shots spending French money on everything from mistresses to foreign bribes (Quelle horreur!). As the current swells against her, she seems to focus

Review: Crusin’ Hits of the 60’s

Review: Crusin’ Hits of the 60’s
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Crusin’ Hits of the 60’s MVD Visual Street 06.07 I guess I’ve always known that minor pop stars from the 60s were active well into the 1980s, but I don’t think that point really hit home until I saw video proof. Recorded live at the Rock n’ Roll Palace in Orlando, Florida, this multi-star concert

Review: God of War

Review: God of War
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God of War SCEE Street: 03.01.06 Action Action Action The word epic gets abused quite a bit these days. However when I say that God of War is an epic game I believe the true meaning of the word is undiluted in this use. God of War (GoW) goes big from beginning to end without

Review: Resident Evil 4

Review: Resident Evil 4
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Resident Evil 4 Capcom Street: 10.25.2005 Action/Adventure Some nit-pickers will be quick to point out that Resident Evil 4 is not a PS2 title but a port from the Game Cube console. Well, I included it anyways and there’s not much you can do about it. With a game this solid, who really cares where

Review: Grand Theft Auto Series

Review: Grand Theft Auto Series
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Grand Theft Auto Series RockStar Games Action/Adventure I couldn’t pick just one of these so I’m going to touch upon the last three major console installments of this series, Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City and San Andreas. What can I say about GTA III that hasn’t been said a thousand times already? Open ended game play,

Review: Things Just Get Away From You

Review: Things Just Get Away From You
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Things Just Get Away From You Walt Holcombe Fantagraphics Books Street: 06.15 In Things Just Get Away From You, Holcombe expresses his exotic stories in a simple and direct manner filling each panel with a visual style that is fluid and exaggerated. Like a dream, it equally draws from his time as an animator as