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Movie criticism (mostly foreign films, documentaries and independents: big Hollywood product hardly needs more marketing), very occasional interviews from James van Maanen, now 80 years old, who began his late-career movie reviewing for GreenCine, then took the big blog step over a decade ago. He covers new movies, video releases, and occasional streaming choices. You can reach him at JamesvanMaanen@gmail.com

Friday, November 20, 2015

Mexico and drugs--again--in Bernardo Ruiz's rather stock doc, KINGDOM OF SHADOWS

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Anyone who has followed the seemingly eternal tale of this country's "war on drugs," and the connections provided by our o...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

France's submission for the Oscar is... Turkish! Deniz Gamze Ergüven's exhilarating MUSTANG

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What are the ways out of (or around) the forced marriage by her fundamentalist family of a young Muslim girl to a man she has no interes...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Alanté Kavaïté's THE SUMMER OF SANGAILE: Lithuania's entry into this year's Oscar sweeps

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TrustMovies can't quite imagine what some of the older members of the Academy will make of the hot lesbian love scenes in THE SUM-ME...
Monday, November 16, 2015

Finally -- a chance to see the Dick Miller/Roger Corman classic, A BUCKET OF BLOOD, in a newly-restored, hi-def version

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In this year's delightful documentary, That Guy Dick Miller , viewers learned a lot about a certain classic exploitation film from...
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Mor Loushy's CENSORED VOICES: Can 48-year-old audio tapes become a visual experience?

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The answer to that question in the headline above, if you had much doubt to begin with, is a resounding  no . At least not as given us i...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

With THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT, Kyle Patrick Alvarez takes us back to the 1970s and some ground-breaking research

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Kyle Patrick Alvarez jumped onto my filmmakers-to-watch list with his first film, Easier With Practice , back in 2009, appeared there a...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

ENTERTAINMENT isn't -- unless you're on that very special Rick Alverson wavelength

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When TrustMovies sat down to view ENTERTAINMENT , the latest film from Rick Alverson , he vaguely recalled the filmmaker's name. Aft...
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