All posts by Joan Rapp
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2011 Oscar Nominated Animated Films and Shorts
The Lost Thing The Lost Thing is an Australian animated film. A boy is out searching for additions...
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Review: ANOTHER YEAR
ANOTHER YEAR is a quiet and thoughtful film. If you like to people watch then this is the...
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Try It Out Thursday: THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
Saturday night, I was scouting around trying to find something to watch that interested me. Cable was the...
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Try It Out Thursday: IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
I would not be a movie geek if it weren’t for classic movies. My dad was a huge...
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Review: THE KING’S SPEECH
THE KING’S SPEECH is a film starring Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush. The film is...
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SLIFF 2010 Review: PRISONER OF HER PAST
PRISONER OF HER PAST is a documentary about a son’s journey to discover the truth about his mother’s...
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SLIFF 2010 Review: MY PERESTROIKA
MY PERESTROIKA is a Russian documentary that follows five individuals who came of age at the time of...
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SLIFF 2010 Review: MADE IN INDIA
MADE IN INDIA is a joint US-India documentary directed by Rebecca Haimowita & Vaishali Sinha. The film is...
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SLIFF 2010 Review: THE QUEEN OF HEARTS
* This review contains some spoilers. * THE QUEEN OF HEARTS is a French film set in Paris. ...
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SLIFF 2010 Review: SUMMER IN GENOA
SUMMER IN GENOA starts out with a mother and her two daughters traveling down the highway playing a...
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SLIFF 2010 Review: ROOM AND A HALF
ROOM AND A HALF is a look back on the life of Joseph Brodsky, as it might have...
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SLIFF 2010 Review: ANITA
It is morning, Anita is being awoken by her mother with a kiss on the forehead, a mug...
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SLIFF 2010 Review: WOMEN WITHOUT MEN
WOMEN WITHOUT MEN is told from the point of view of four women. The time is Iran 1953...
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SLIFF 2010 Review: THE MOTHER
THE MOTHER is a documentary set in the heartland of Russia. It is a strikingly beautiful portrait of...
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Review: THE SICILIAN GIRL
THE SICILIAN GIRL, La siciliana ribelle, is a Foreign Language film in Italian. It was directed by Marco...
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New TV Spot: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1
I was surfing around on the net over the weekend and much to my surprise and delight I stumbled upon...
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Review: FLIPPED
I couldn’t have thought of a better way to spend a weekday afternoon than at the screening for...
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Review: WILD GRASS
WILD GRASS is a French movie being released by Sony Classics to theaters in Saint Louis on August...
