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September 28, 2023

Saturn Bowling: In the Gutter, by Scott Nye

“Subversive” is a tough word to consider these days. We’re well past the age of certain topics being considered “off limits” for art from a legal perspective, and working at a small enough budget level, you’ll find just about every...

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September 27, 2023

The Creator: A Spectacular Void, by Scott Nye

Big-budget science fiction is filled with gearheads bereft of emotional urgency. They serve well a modern audience uninterested in storytelling, constantly posting gray-toned CGI comps several degrees removed from an acceptable finished product, claiming them to be among the greatest...

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September 26, 2023

Home Video Hovel: La Bamba, by Rudie Obias

At this point in time, the music biopic is a tried and true subgenre complete with loads of clichés and tropes. Anyone who has watched Jake Kasdan’s parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story knows that the music biopic is...

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September 21, 2023

The Origin of Evil: Bringing Down the House, by Scott Nye

Fans of the French TV show Dix pour cent (retitled and available on Netflix as Call My Agent!) have been accustomed to seeing one of that show’s breakout stars, Laure Calamy, ascend the ranks of the supporting actor tree in...

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August 24, 2023

Bottoms: Gut Punch, by Scott Nye

Emma Seligman’s 2020 debut feature Shiva Baby was the biggest breath of fresh air in American independent filmmaking since the sun set on mumblecore. Culturally relevant, funny in a really original way, personal without being self-involved, and really sharply-structured, it’s...

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August 14, 2023

Home Video Hovel: Is Paris Burning?, by Rudie Obias

The World War II genre lends itself to sprawling epic movies. From big battle scenes to politics and romance to clear distinctions between good and evil, the genre has something for everyone. The film Is Paris Burning? fits in that...

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August 3, 2023

Passages: The Bed Is There For You and Me, by Scott Nye

Desire is never ending, never fulfilled, and makes for a wonderful subject for fiction. Take Tomas (Franz Rogowski), a successful filmmaker living in Paris. He’s married to Martin (Ben Whishaw), a calm, patient, understanding man who has his own thriving,...

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July 24, 2023

Home Video Hovel: One False Move, by Rudie Obias

The hey-day of independent film was in the late ‘80s and throughout the ‘90s with movies like Slacker, Metropolitan, Bottle Rocket, Do The Right Thing, and others. There was just something about this era of American filmmaking that was really...

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July 12, 2023

Afire: Hot Summer Nights, by Scott Nye

Even at the start, the vacation is not going well – Leon (Thomas Schubert) and Felix (Langston Uibel) are meant to spend a week or so at the latter’s family house near the ocean, when their car breaks down. Then,...

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July 6, 2023

The Passengers of the Night: Ride Along, by Scott Nye

The Passengers of the Night exists pointedly where movies must reflexively, somewhere between real life and a dream. It begins on the night of the 1981 presidential election, electing France’s first Socialist president, but Elisabeth (Charlotte Gainsbourg) has more immediate...

Category: reviews

Saturn Bowling: In the Gutter, by Scott Nye

The Creator: A Spectacular Void, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: La Bamba, by Rudie Obias

The Origin of Evil: Bringing Down the House, by Scott Nye

Bottoms: Gut Punch, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Is Paris Burning?, by Rudie Obias

Passages: The Bed Is There For You and Me, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: One False Move, by Rudie Obias

Afire: Hot Summer Nights, by Scott Nye

The Passengers of the Night: Ride Along, by Scott Nye

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