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Toronto After Dark 2007
Big shock here, but the Toronto After Dark website is now running on ExpressionEngine.
Danielson: A Family Movie by J.l. Aronson (Review)
It’s an inspiring vision of the way music could be, of the way music perhaps should be — especially in Christian circles.I Could Crap Better Sleeve Art
Folks are frustrated that great movies, or at least movies that they love, consistently receive crappy treatment, and so they take matters into their own hands.If Four Year Olds Ran the Academy, This Would Win Best Picture
A computer-animated take on the “ugly duckling” story with a bit of poo as the main the character.
300 by Zack Snyder (Review)
The film’s look is so hyper-realistic, so stylized, that it ends up feeling sterile and artificial.
The Amazing Screw-On Head by Chris Prynoski (Review)
The world could always use some more goofily charming, historically irreverent sci-fi.
Tom Yum Goong by Prachya Pinkaew (Review)
Despite some really fun action scenes, Tom Yum Goong is a decidedly inferior film to its predecessor, Ong-Bak.

Curse of the Golden Flower by Zhang Yimou (Review)
I need to stop the review lest it just become a checklist of everything I dislike about the movie.
Shut Up & Sing by Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck (Review)
Ultimately a testament to such American values as love, friendship, family, and loyalty as much as free speech.
Swing Girls by Shinobu Yaguchi (Review)
Swing Girls is far better than it frankly has any right to be, thanks to the sheer amount of fun, enthusiasm, and aplomb it contains.

District B13 by Pierre Morel (Review)
The stunts and fights scenes have an edge and brutality that you just don’t see everyday.
The Proposition by John Hillcoat (Review)
The film always returns to its central violent themes with a crackling, harrowing intensity.