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Viral Video: Could digital imaging resurrect Philip Seymour Hoffman's acting career?
A human facial animation 101 video course raises questions about reality and the power of digitization.
Rustin Thompson
Rustin Thompson is a filmmaker, film critic and indie radio deejay. He enjoys strong coffee, red wine, IPAs and his wife and grown children. He is comfortable with the fact he will never be rich, but
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'Blue Ruin': A disappointing take on 'movie reality'
Jeremy Saulnier's latest indie flick was an award winner at Cannes in 2013. But is 'Blue Ruin' really worth the hype - and the award?
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Viral Video: Lance Armstrong fixes a flat (but probably not his rep)
Outside Magazine tries to recast (and rehab) the disgraced Tour de France champ in this how-to-change-a-flat-tire video.
Film review: Jodorowsky's Dune
The documentary celebrates director Alejandro Jodorowsky's brilliant offbeat oeuvre, and explains how the 85-year old auteur came to not direct the “greatest movie never made.”