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April 27, 2023

Peter Pan & Wendy: Never Lands, by Tyler Smith

To watch David Lowery’s Peter Pan & Wendy, is to engage in a frustrating – but fascinating – conflict. Produced by Disnay, the film attempts to capture the whimsical spirit of the 1953 animated feature, while trying to inject modern...

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April 24, 2023

Home Video Hovel: Triangle of Sadness, by Rudie Obias

Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness was a smash hit with film critics and general audiences alike, in 2022. In fact, the film was nominated for Best Picture, while Östlund was nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay during the...

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April 13, 2023

Nefarious: Demonic Recession, by Tyler Smith

Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman’s Nefarious purports to be a horror movie about spiritual warfare, perhaps trying to evoke The Exorcist and The Omen. Unlike those movies, however, this film is so devoid of frights, one wonders exactly how hard...

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February 16, 2023

Emily: A Death-Scene, by David Bax

In 2011, Andrea Arnold blew the dust off of popular assumptions about high school literature mainstay Wuthering Heights with her visceral, sensual, handheld adaptation, in which the characters’ emotions were chafed as raw as their skin was by the constant...

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February 15, 2023

Sundance 2023: You Hurt My Feelings, by David Bax

There are many things that make every Nicole Holofcener film a welcome, reliable refreshment but maybe the most important is that she’s one of the very few directors currently working who are expressly an unapologetically interested in making comedies. Sure,...

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February 15, 2023

Home Video Hovel: Romeo and Juliet, by Rudie Obias

Obviously, just about everyone knows the story of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet—two young star-crossed lovers from warring families in Verona, Italy. This is something everyone had to read in high school for English literature, as well as countless movie...

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February 14, 2023

Sundance 2023: Jamojaya, by David Bax

Jamojaya, the latest melodrama from one of the best currently working melodramatists, Justin Chon (Gook, Blue Bayou), returns to the subject matter of family, which has dominated much of his oeuvre. This time, we’re focused on the growing distance between...

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February 9, 2023

Cinema Sabaya: Viewfinder, by David Bax

If you begin watching Orit Fouks Rotem‘s Cinema Sabaya as I did, with no foreknowledge whatsoever, you may begin to wonder, at first, if it’s a documentary. With a locked down camera that allows people to cross in and out...

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February 9, 2023

Sundance 2023: Kokomo City, by David Bax

In topic-driven or issue-driven documentaries, there are two main paths a filmmaker can make (and then innumerable directions to branch off from there). On the one hand, there’s the bird’s eye view approach, attempting to offer an overview of a...

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February 9, 2023

Huesera: The Bone Woman: First Time’s the Charm, by Rudie Obias

Horror is one of the few genres that can tackle just about any family dynamic, either conventional and taboo, in an effective manner, while delivering bloody good thrills and scares. Even if you miss the subtext or its themes go...

Tagged: review

Peter Pan & Wendy: Never Lands, by Tyler Smith

Home Video Hovel: Triangle of Sadness, by Rudie Obias

Nefarious: Demonic Recession, by Tyler Smith

Emily: A Death-Scene, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: You Hurt My Feelings, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Romeo and Juliet, by Rudie Obias

Sundance 2023: Jamojaya, by David Bax

Cinema Sabaya: Viewfinder, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Kokomo City, by David Bax

Huesera: The Bone Woman: First Time’s the Charm, by Rudie Obias

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