Ken Miller

n a quietly compelling film about a marathon runner who moonlights as a hold up artist, Benjamin Heisenberg's The Robber tells the true story of Johann Kastenberger in the days following his release from prison. After seven years of being locked up and running on a treadmill, the Austrian's ready to integrate back into...

At first glance, Todd Berger's The Scenesters is a murder mystery about dying hipsters, and a cat-and-mouse between filmmakers, detectives, and crime scene cleanup artists. There are hidden clues in the form of indie rock cds left at crime scenes, and a serial killer with a sense of humor. That's...

The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee "Scratch" Perry, which opens at Filmbar this week, is part chronicle Perry's life, and part history of Reggae and Dub music (both pioneered by Scratch). Though Perry's words are thickly slurred, often-subtitled, and clouded in a thick, low cloud of "smoke," his...

Erotic art has a history of being hushed, censored, or flat out destroyed.Secret Museums, playing at FilmBar for the rest of the week, is taking a more public approach. The subtitled documentary travels through the excavated streets of Pompeii, and the carefully guarded shelves of private collectors (and the hidden...