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This was a hilarious musical comedy that played at the 48 Hour Film Project in Atlanta in 2006. It should have won a lot more awards, in my opinion, and features one of the funniest songs I've heard in a long time. Even though you'll be singing the song long after the film is over, it's not just a one-joke wonder. There's plenty of subtle comedic moments that you might miss if you aren't paying attention. I especially the part about drug screening.

Kudos to Keith Hooker and company for continually making funny films at a break-neck pace! I love watching their entries in the 48 Hour Film Project every year.

Just got back from the screening of "Brothers of the Head" at the Atlanta Film Festival. What can I say about it? To tell the truth, I don't know what to make of the movie. It's really hard to tell if it's a comedy trying to be a drama, or a drama trying to be a comedy. It's mainly a drama, which has some funny moments. But to me, it felt like a film with an identity crisis.

Maybe it's because I was expecting it to be a comedy coming into it, but it just didn't work for me. I heard comparisons to Hedwig and the Angry Inch but those should be thrown out as the two movies are nothing alike, save the music.

The film was well done, I'll give it that, and it had excellent performances from the actors, especially the love interest (played by two different ladies for two different time periods) and the manager. But I found myself laughing at parts that a first played for comedy, then become deathly serious. I didn't know what was acceptable to laugh at. What starts out as a joke morphs into abuse at one point, in another one you start laughing, then you realize your laughing about a tumor.

It is a challenging film, and maybe if I went into it fresh, knowing it was a drama, I would've enjoyed it more. I did enjoy the music, even if it was rough around the edges. I wouldn't be opposed to picking up an album from "The Bang Bang" if it was well produced.

Well, conjoined twin rock stars... a drama... who'da thunk?

The problem with "The Ring Two" is not that it is poorly done, it's the fact that it doesn't make any sense. It doesn't follow any sort of logic at all, including the rules established in the first film. In fact, the video tape aspect so cleverly used in "The Ring" only gets a brief scene here and then is abandoned entirely. Yet, somehow, the evil forces make their way into the real world.

It's hard to write a review of this movie, because so little of it makes any sense at all... The performances and effects are well done, but there's nothing to tie it together, and as a result the movie because a string of cliché movie scares and never produces a satisfying result.