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Film Review: “Hoax_Canular” — Teen Prophets Turn to YouTube to Warn of Doomsday

November 1, 2014
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Hoax_Canular contains many troubling glimpses into private worlds, intimate visions of radical insecurity that are baffling, frightening, and flat-out bizarre.

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Film Review: “Unorthodox” — A Mixed Bag at the Arlington International Film Festival

October 29, 2014
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Unorthodox teases the audience with the come-on that it will be a highly unusual documentary about religion and individual transformation..

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Film Review: “The Class of ’92” — An Excellent Documentary on Six Young Men and the Miracle Years of Manchester United

October 27, 2014
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Filmmakers Ben and Gabe Turner also successfully place the story of Manchester United’s rise in the larger context of what was happening in Great Britain at the time.

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Film Review: “The Irish Pub” — A Too Polite Homage to the Old-fashioned Gaelic tavern

October 26, 2014
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So what’s the verdict on The Irish Pub? A well-meaning film, but lacking in excitement.

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Fuse Film Review: The Arlington International Film Festival Kicks off 4th Season with Boffo “Botso”

October 22, 2014
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Botso teaches children the joie de vivre of music and he is remarkably successful.

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Film Review: The Intriguing Documentary “Art and Craft” — Getting a Kick From Copying Art

October 15, 2014
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Why, when finally caught, didn’t mark Landis land in jail? Here’s the rub. He was a consummate liar and a big-time deceiver but he’s never committed a jailable crime.

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Film Review: “E-Team” — A Powerful Documentary about Defending Human Rights

October 4, 2014
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The excellent E-Team documents a remarkable effort to investigate the abuse of human rights, an endeavor that, for the most part, goes unheralded in our mainstream media.

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Film Review: Beware of “Last Days in Vietnam” — A Whitewash of the War

September 26, 2014
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Contextualizing is everything. And that’s particularly true of Last Days in Vietnam, where the odious things Americans did there weigh down the ostensible heroics shown in our exiting the country.

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Music Interview: Beth Harrington on The Carters, The Cashes, and the Course of Country Music

September 23, 2014
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“The music itself is quite Gothic. It’s about murder, and death, and God, not all toe tapping stuff.”

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Fuse Film Review: The Maine International Film Festival, Bar Harbor Edition

September 18, 2014
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Two new documentaries: one a love story about two athletes, the other an attempt to chronicle a small resistance movement among German students against the Nazis.

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