 LOST – Episode 6.06: Sundown
We start off in OtherLost as Sayid arrives, via cab, at the home of OtherNadia, his very much alive love of his life. The only problem is that in this reality OtherNadia is married to OtherSayid's brother, OtherOmar, and they have two little rug rats to boot. In this reality OtherSayid is working translating contracts for some oil company and OtherOmar runs a dry cleaning business, ... Continue Reading
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 Directed by Lena DunhamProducers Alicia Van Couvering and Kyle Martin
22 year old Aura returns home to her artist mother's TriBeCa loft with the following: A useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her youtube page, a boyfriend who's left her to find himself at Burning Man, a dying hamster, and her tail between her legs. Luckily, her trainwreck childhood best friend never left home, the restaurant down the block ... Continue Reading
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 Directed by Olivier LecotProduced by Jeffrey Saunders and Pierre Javaux
3 days in New York. 3 days in which Antoine will pretend to be "John" at Arthur's, who dates Alice, whom Antoine desperately loves. 3 days to see that all women aren't as romantic as him.3 days to test his potential as a comic, his talent as a liar, his French charm and his existential melancholy.3 days to love New York, ... Continue Reading
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 LOST 6.05: The Lighthouse
The episode begins in OtherLOST where OtherJack is arriving at his apartment where he changes shirts and washes up in the bathroom, taking a good, hard look at himself in the mirror. He pauses to look specifically at his appendix scar. This marks the fifth straight episode where the centric character looks at his or her own reflection in a mirror. A clue, ... Continue Reading
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 Writing recaps about LOST is a challenge since there are so many aspects of it – themes, characters, philosophy, etc. – that can fill up page after page on their own. Given the limitations of this format I will concentrate on the significant events of each episode and bold any lines, quotes, or themes that relate back to the show's overarching mythology. I will leave it up to you, dear ... Continue Reading
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 Episode 6.04: The Substitute, Part One
Anyone who watches LOST knows that this final season is presenting us with two similar yet different realities. One involves the original timeline where our beloved characters have experienced the trials and tribulations that we've been watching over these past five years. The other has been referred to as a "sideways reality" by the show runners. The fandom has taken to calling it OtherLost so ... Continue Reading
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 "Even the birds sing after the storm...."Directed & Produced by Hilla MedaliaExecutive Producers James Lecesne, John Priddy & Ed Priddy
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a group of New York Broadway artists come down to New Orleans to make a change. Re-opening the doors of the storm-damaged St. Mark's Community Center, they hold auditions for the musical Once On This Island and stage the show with thirteen kids from ... Continue Reading
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 The Day After Peace is the latest award-winning documentary film from Peace One Day founder and chairman Jeremy Gilley.
Trademark of Peace One Day Ltd
The film charts the remarkable 10-year journey of award-winning filmmaker Jeremy Gilley to establish an annual Peace Day on 21 September. The camera follows Jeremy as he galvanises the countries of the world to recognise an official day of ceasefire and non-violence.
But even after the member ... Continue Reading
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 From Writer Byron LaneDirector Nathaniel AtchesonProducer M. Elizabeth HughesHERPES BOY
Rudolph Murray (Byron Lane, Herpes Boy web series) hates his life. He has a large purple birthmark on his upper lip and everyday he finds some one staring, pointing, or calling him names – like Herpes Boy. He makes videos for the Internet in which he rants about his quirky life and zany family, including his New Age ... Continue Reading
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 From director James Allen Smith
Enter a world where pandemonium reigns and reckless ambition rules: the trading floors in the financial canyons of downtown Chicago. Here, men use strange hand signals to buy and sell everything from pork belly to soybeans while wearing the weight of our complex economy on their shoulders – along with their neon jackets. It's a physical, bruising place, one where a slight gain creates ... Continue Reading
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 When the truth is found to be liesAnd all the joy within you dies--Jefferson Airplane "Somebody to Love" Ever since 1996's somewhat-underrated dark comedy The Cable Guy, I have associated the above lines--for better or worse--with Jim Carrey's godawful karaoke rendition featured in the film. But from now on, I will associate these lines with the new Coen brothers' dark comedy A Serious Man.
A Serious Man, Coen Brothers' ... Continue Reading
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 A feel good movie for heavy metal rockers..if ever there was such a thing. Anvil's story is one of profound inspiration that never loses its sense of humor or amazement. The ever-enduring friendship of Lips & Rob is a testament to the notion that if you work hard and play hard, then you're more ahead of the game than most. --Valerie Gonzalez, Editor of RAPT
From Director/Writer Sacha Gervasi
Produced by Rebecca ... Continue Reading
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 A Robert Stone Film
It is now all the rage in the Age of Al Gore and Obama, but can you remember when everyone in America was not “Going Green”? Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement—fromits post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s incendiary bestseller Silent Spring, to the first wildly ... Continue Reading
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It's been a decade since Ben (Duplass) and Andrew (Leonard) were the bad boys of their college campus. Ben has settled down and found a job, wife, and home. Andrew took the alternate route as a vagabond artist, skipping the globe from Chiapas to Cambodia. When Andrew shows up unannounced on Ben's doorstep, they easily fall back into their old dynamic of macho one-upmanship. Late into the night at ... Continue Reading
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James has learned to be withdrawn and secretive in a family with long buried secrets. Lonely and confused, he is drawn to one of his school teachers, Mr. Sutherland...focusing on him as the one person who might understand his inner turmoil.When an older man approaches him in a public toilet, James panics and calls his mother but refuses to tell her what happened. Late that night, James listens to ... Continue Reading
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