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Roky Erickson probably should���ve died young. He���d be remembered as he was then: a snake-hipped, baby-faced rocker howling and shrieking on stage. After You���re Gonna Miss Me, it���s impossible to think of him as anything but middle-aged, jowly, filthy, with fingernails overgrown and hair matted into one giant dreadlock. In the grips of schizophrenia and psychosis. As he is now. While Roky���s journey from 13th Floor Elevators rock idol ...

There���s a nifty aphorism that states: ���In war, truth is the first casualty.��� Passabe, filmed in East Timor four-years after independence, takes up this premise to explore the repercussions of historical discrepancies on the town of Passabe, where 74 pro-independence villagers were massacred after the referendum. After a clumsy first five-minutes that includes a cringe-inducing slow motion recreation of the massacre, Passabe hits its straps and finds a more ...

I saw Ben Barka get killed is a fairly uninspired crime flick masquerading as a postmodern genre piece. It gets off to a promising start with a neat parody of ‘40s noir, with petty crim Georges Figon narrating the discovery of his own dead body by hard bitten detectives in a smoky, moonlit room. Unfortunately, most of its conceits fall flat. The clever-clever touches, such as having writer Marguerite ...