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Beer and Seed is an engaging black comedy about a middle-ager who heads to college after Navy life. His interactions with a diverse array of younger students provides ripe situations for very funny and memorable scenes in an all-too-realistic portrayal of campus struggles. As a professor myself I've seen many situations similar to ones on-display here, and the way they ring true-to-life only enhances the humour.

Like all great comedies the running-time is wisely-kept short, running at a lean 69 min. Engaging acting, very apt music selections, and the brisk-pace makes this film perfect for a group movie-night, whether the audience is young or old. Director Seth Conway makes good use of the locations, and has done a great job with the cast, and Bill Cox's biting script pulls the viewers in as much as the actors sell the material.

This is an indie-film in the best-sense of the term, and that ethic only enhances the overall atmosphere of the hopeful and life-affirming story you'll see on-display in Beer and Seed; it's one not to be missed!

In this ultra-indie from Oklahoma filmmaker Damon Blalack, we're taken on a dreamlike trip through the repressed madness of a paranormal investigator named Rebecca. As her marriage unravels, she discovers her mind unraveling and becomes determined to capture the Devil and kill him. Of course, it's not that simple when dealing with such matters, as she soon learns. Bizarre imagery, a documentary subplot about ghosts in Claremore — it's a wholly ambitious project and the type of film that more indie filmmakers should be doing. Blalack wisely does his own thing with astounding results. Like the first time you saw Eraserhead, Let Us Go ... this is a cerebral trip that's an incredible indication of things to come. — Louis Fowler, Colorado Springs-Independent

The editing style of the Phantom Menace is not supposed to occur in real-time. A scene will pause at a point of climax, then take you away from it for more dramatic reasons. Because the following scene is in another time and place, it makes sense to be able to go back to the earlier scene, right where we left off. There are many movies that use this method, for it is a stylistic editing choice which lends more suspense. The droid armies are used because they are what is realistic for the events occuring. Until human clone soldiers come along in Episode II, there is no other way for a small entity (i.e. The Trade Federation, working under Darth Sidious' direction), to take over an entire world in secret. It would be like the Department of Agriculture of our world putting out recruitment posters for troops, for some unspecified take-over. When it is seen how unreliable thousands of droids are on the battlefield, the clones are commissioned. As for the acting, you should go watch some of the old 1930's Flash Gordon serials. George Lucas has always been emulating these type of films with his own Star Wars trilogy, and has even stated that the wooden acting is on purpose as a homage to those early sci-fi films. And lastly, the narrative of the film is not meant to flow as a focused single story, because all of these separate story threads all contribute to building the entire saga as a whole. Granted, many audience members not very familiar with the original trilogy (i.e. specific lines, et cetera), will question many side-quests, characters, and lines of dialogue of the Phantom Menace, but if you know the original trilogy very well, and you know where the series is heading, then everything makes sense, and is there for a reason. Also, the "Phantom Menace" is none other than Senator Palpatine (who unbeknownst to even the Jedi, is actually the future Emperor, as well as the current Darth Sidious).