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By: debbie lynn elias Although completed in 2008, it wasn’t until after Sundance 2010 and a tour on the festival circuit that Jake Scott’s WELCOME

By: debbie lynn elias Although completed in 2008, it wasn’t until after Sundance 2010 and a tour on the festival circuit that Jake Scott’s WELCOME

By: debbie lynn elias There are two definitions of the word “conviction.” The first, is “an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or

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By: debbie lynn elias I have never been a Woody Allen fan. Although as a film critic I appreciate the content and quality of his

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By: debbie lynn elias When George Bernard Shaw wrote “Youth is wasted on the young”, he obviously didn’t know of writer/director Nicholas Fackler. Now only

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By: debbie lynn elias What were producers Dan Halsted, Dan Kolsrud and David Scheer thinking when they opted to spend $20 million on this latest

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