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No Concessions: Summer Hits and Misses
Summer's over, and it's got Bob Cashill in a reflective mood as he looks back on what worked -- and what didn't -- at the cinema this blockbuster season
Read More »Film Review: “Post Grad”
The new “comedy” Post Grad has just opened, and unhhhh… Sorry…almost dozed off there, a degenerative side effect from watching this movie. It seems almost impossible that with such notable successes under the belt
Read More »Film Review: “Thirst”
Thirst, the new film by director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Moon is the Sun’s Dream), has two firsts going for it which set it apart in the vampire genre: It’s the first vampire film ever
Read More »Film Review: “Funny People”
Judd Apatow's latest picture reaches theaters today, and Lance Berry has returned from the screening room with his review
Read More »No Concessions: Summer Shorts, with Woody, Coppola, “Tony Manero,” and Zowie Bowie
Got your ticket stub, your popcorn, and your extra large soda? Meet Bob Cashill in the No Concessions lobby, where he's waiting to tell you about the summer's finest in indie fare
Read More »Film Review: “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
I’ll admit, first and foremost, that I’ve been more a fan of the Harry Potter films than I have the books. While I admit the books are enjoyable (I’ve read the first four), I
Read More »No Concessions: Finally, an Iraq Movie Worth a Damn
The Hurt Locker does the impossible: It single-handedly redeems the mostly misbegotten run of “sand” films, those war-on-terror features connected to Iraq and Afghanistan, a genre about as useless and debased as those feel-good
Read More »Film Review: “Bruno”
Since I’m usually ready to give any movie a go (unless the name Uwe Boll is attached to direct), I figured I’d check out a film I wouldn’t normally be attracted to, and see how
Read More »Film Review: “Public Enemies”
I’ve been a fan of director Michael Mann (Ali, The Last of the Mohicans) for some years now. One thing I’ve always been able to count on is that no matter what project he’s
Read More »No Concessions: “Afghan Star,” the “Idol” of a Nation, Rises
Amidst the turbulence in the world of pop culture comes good news from, of all places, Afghanistan. At the start of the new documentary Afghan Star, we see a line of men, with numbered
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