Christianne Hedtke / Top Ten Lists
Tags: Arthur Russell, comedy, David Gordon Greene, documentary, Evan Goldberg, Filth and Wisdom, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Good Dick, Hamlet 2, horror, In Bruges, independent film, James Franco, Jason Segel, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Jonah Hill, Judd Apatow, Let the Right One In, Madonna, Matt Wolf, Medicine for Melancholy, Mila Kunis, Mitchell Lichtenstein, movie, music, Nicholas Stoller, Phillip Glass, Pineapple Express, Revolutionary Road, Seth Rogen, Son of Rambow, Sundance, Sundance 2007, Sundance 2008, Sundance Film Festival, Tell No One, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Wrestler, Tomas Alfredson, Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival 2008, Trouble the Water, W., Wild Combination
February 10, 2009
Why stop at 10 when there are so many excellent movies out there and the internet has infinite space? To settle any arguments that may spring up, some of these movies were released as early as 2007 and exhibited in theaters as late as 2009, but they are all uniquely connected with 2008 either [...]
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Christianne Hedtke / Teeth
Tags: Austin, comedy, feminism, horror, independent film, Mitchell Lichtenstein, movie, Sundance, Sundance 2007, TX, vagina
February 6, 2009
It’s hard to shock a modern-day audience, but Teeth had packed houses at Sundance eliciting full-throttle screams in unison. It is one of the few non-pornographic movies that examines the power of the vagina, and dares to pose the question, “What if the vagina was no longer the most vulnerable part of [...]
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Christianne Hedtke / Filth and Wisdom
Tags: AIDS, Eugene Hutz, Filth and Wisdom, Gogol Bordello, I Am Because We Are, Madonna, Malawi, movie, top ten 2008, Tribeca Film Festival 2008
January 30, 2009
All reviews of this film were terrible, but that’s because anyone handing out star-ratings to indie films is bound to poo poo Madonna’s directorial debut considering some of the embarrassing movies she’s gotten herself mixed up with in the past. But don’t punish the pop princess for having Guy Ritchie has an ex-husband. She wrote [...]
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