IFFB ’11 also screened a trio of films about what happens after the sun goes down. The two designees for this year’s festival-within-a-festival IFFBoston After Dark were The Catechism Cataclysm and Stake Land.  The former is a quirky comedy that gradually turns dark and surreal. Starting with a peppy, lonely priest using a misremembered friendship to emotionally coerce his childhood idol onto a canoe trip, we meander to a finish that includes campfire stories with two giggling panda-head...

Feuding Anthropologists, an Elephant who got away, The abuse of Vlast, and Rich space cadetsThis year's LA Film Festival had a particularly strong slate of documentaries.and the following are a few mini-reviews of the creme-de-la-creme. "SECRETS OF THE TRIBE" compiled and directed by Brazilian filmmaker José Padilha, is a very thought-provoking documentary focusing on the interference of academic anthropologists in the life of an extremely primitive tribe in the Amazon jungle, the Yanomami, in...

This is a boy to which is developed a great power of to open the dimensional doors and to pass to another universe or world and I called it Man Dimension (DimensionMan a human being that you see the dimensions). When DimensionMan learns how to use its power, he understands that the planet is not only and that it is occupied for extraterrestrial but in another dimension and that we cannot see them because to us still not you us had developed the sense to see them, but to DimensionMan if the sixth...

             Film treasures under the sea for the Bahamas Festival taking place at the Atlantis : watch out under the feet for sharks and ruins from lost city ...

Tuesday, September 11----------The stars are shining brightly in Toronto, and I don't mean up in the stratosphere. These celestial bodies are closer to the ground, and emanate the same kind of light. As they used to say in Hollywood, more stars then there are in heaven.............

WALTER CRUTTENDEN’S ADVENTURES IN TIME AND SPACEThe Great Year features the combination of two documentary genres I’d typically cross county lines to avoid. It’s equal parts somber, Discovery Channel-style science doc and one of those mystical, astrological, hippie dealies of the Chariots of the Gods school. Yet somehow these two genres work surprisingly well together; the film’s seriousness and scientific rigor help to mitigate a lot of the New Age woo-hoo, while the more wacky stuff sp...