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SIFF Film Review – Cannibal
Manuel Martín Cuenca’s new film, Cannibal – seen by me at the Seattle International Film Festival – is the story of Carlos (Antonio de la Torre), a tailor in the Spanish town of Granada. (While researching Granada, I ended up learning it was the capital…
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Film Review – Witching & Bitching
I’m a big fan of the horror comedy. I like the gore and I like the funny, so combining the two sounds like gold to me. The best is when the humor is used to comment on the horror genre, Scream and Tucker & Dale…
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Film Review – Coherence
Ah, the dinner party movie. It’s a standard for the low-budget movie folks because it’s got limited locations and endless possibilities for conversation. It’s not my favorite genre because the action tends to be the revelation of who in the room is sleeping with whom.…
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Film Review – Third Person
I think a lot about what makes a film successful. I’m not talking about money; I’m talking about what makes a film work. There are a lot of crappy-ass movies that I really like and think work pretty well even though they aren’t great pieces…
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Film Review – Ivory Tower
When I am not writing film reviews or doing whatever it is that I do to fill my days (it’s not really that interesting), I volunteer as a mentor to high school students. (Shout out to Southwest Boys and Girls Club!) One of the most…
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SIFF Film Review – Lucky Them
The only thing I hate more than a movie that takes place in Seattle is a movie centered on the Seattle music scene. (That is hyperbole actually. Turns out I hate quite a lot of things more than that. One could honestly say that I…
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SIFF Film Review – The Signal
In The Signal, directed by William Eubank and shown at the Seattle International Film Festival, MIT students Nic (Brenton Thwaites) and Jonah (Beau Knapp) are escorting Nic’s girlfriend Haley (Olivia Cooke) to California, where she will be attending school for a year. They are also…
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SIFF Double Feature: Bound: Africans versus African Americans and Leading Lady
Bound: Africans versus African Americans: Kenyan-born director and actress Peres Owino takes a look at the relationships between Africans and African Americans in this documentary that doesn’t shy away from asking difficult questions. Common ancestry does not make for instant friendships, and both groups of…
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