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Walk Away Renee: You're not to blame

"Walk Away Renee" is available on SundanceNow's new Subscriber Video-on-Demand Program Doc Club from June 27, 2012. When you were young didn't you think your parents were crazy? Did you swear you wouldn't turn out like them? For filmmaker Jonathan…

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Extraterrestrial: Sex, lies and science-fiction

"Extraterrestrial" (90 minutes) premieres simultaneously on June 15th on DVD and all major on-demand platforms. It also opens June 15th in limited theatrical release. If you've seen the 2007 thriller "Timecrimes," you already know that Spanish writer-director Nacho Vigalondo has…

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Indie Game: Super Meat Boy vs. Fez

"Indie Game: The Movie" (103 minutes) is available on iTunes on Demand, VHX Direct Download, Steam and directly from the filmmakers. A debate that occasionally rages over at Roger Ebert's Journal deals with whether video games can be considered art.…

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More sex please, we're French

"Sexual Chronicles of a French Family" (76 minutes) is available via IFC On Demand. Let's play a game. It's 3 AM and you can't sleep. A channel roulette session with the remote control stops your TV on a certain network…

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Norman Mailer: His life in public

"Norman Mailer: The American" is available on Amazon Instant video. It is also available on DVD. Criterion has announced a two-disc Eclipse Series DVD set of Norman Mailer-directed features for release August 28, 2012: "Maidstone" (1970), "Wild 90" (1967) and…

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Johnny Carson: The man behind the curtain

"Johnny Carson: The King of Late Night" (120 minutes) premieres on PBS' "American Masters" at 9:00pm Monday, May 14th (check local listings). The film will also be released on DVD and Blu-ray on July 17th. As I reflect on my…