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This Week In Trailers: F Is For Family, City Of Gold, Sam Klemke's Time Machine, Blur: New World Towers, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, Mustang

By Christopher Stipp November 23rd, 2015

Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…

'Shut Up Little Man' – Recorded Roommate Rantings Spawn Cult Comedy Phenomenon [Sundance Review]

By Germain Lussier January 29th, 2011

Two friends move from Wisconsin to San Fransisco and soon realize their crotchety, old next door neighbors argue constantly. And they're crude. And loud. And it gets so annoying that the two friends begin to record the often hilarious arguments. Those recordings then made it out into the world and slowly but surely became not…

This Week In Trailers: The Woods, Les Amours Imaginaires (Heartbeats), Shut Up Little Man, Uncle Kent, The Chaperone

By Christopher Stipp April 4th, 2014

Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…