Rachel Carey’s rousing historical drama “Ask For Jane” can be called one of this year’s Independent Film Festival’s successful calls to make good trouble.  Despite its late 1960s to early 1970s setting, the issues raised by the film retain unfortunate
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Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley try to make French suburban teen anomie intriguing in their drama “Permanent Green Light.”   But the results wind up being a tedious slog. A couple of intriguing characters cannot save a tale smothered by its
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Many of 2018’s best films provided a mental oasis for those seeking refuge from the year’s political dumpster inferno of GOP madness, naked corruption, and open racism.  Admittedly, many of the films from the following list would be unknown to
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Towards the end of Alexis Bloom’s documentary “Divide And Conquer: The Story Of Roger Ailes,” there’s a moment that will draw less than mournful feelings from certain Bay Area viewers.  It’s an announcement on Fox News, the media juggernaut founded
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Oddly enough, the recovery from a romantic breakup storyline turns out to be a Mc Guffin in Another Hole In The Head Film Festival’s Opening Night Film.  Joe Badon’s “The God Inside My Ear,” which kicks off the 15th edition
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Could an octagonal playing field be an improvement over soccer’s current rectangular field?  That’s one of the ideas thrown out by self-styled soccer re-inventor Laurentiu Ginghina. This man who dreams of revolutionizing soccer is the subject of Cornelieu Porumboiu’s newest
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This year’s milestone edition of Ron Diamond’s Animation Show Of Shows brings viewers Chinese-American astronaut dreams, growing up with facial blindness, and an astronomical love triangle, among other delights.  This program came about from Diamond’s annual country-hopping to such festivals
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The annual 3rd i Film Festival returns this weekend with its 16th edition of films from South Asia and its Diaspora.   Of particular interest this time around are a couple of personal documentaries about two areas of South Asia unfortunately
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