Writer/director Lance Hammer’s debut feature Ballast is one of those loosely plotted films that reveal themselves slowly and almost obliquely. Who the characters are and how they’re related comes across subtly and the story seems to manifest itself almost out of nothing. As such, it would be robbing the film of some of its pleasure [...]

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Anamaria Marinca in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Forget about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, there’s a solid crop of DVDs coming out this week that didn’t quite hog so much attention but deserved to. Needless to say, there isn’t a single flying refrigerator among them.
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 [...]

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