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Film Review – Raw (Second Take)
Raw (2016) starts off hinting towards something diabolical. A horror film about cannibalism is always a good starting point for an icky story. And while we do get plenty of horror involving the consumption of human flesh, the final product may not be what we…
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Film Review – Power Rangers
As a kid, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers television show existed as a means to distract myself during its thirty-minute timeslot. I didn’t commit to watching it whenever it came on. Sometimes I would stop to catch it while flipping channels. I didn’t have a…
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SXSW Film Review – Most Beautiful Island
With all the talk about illegal immigration and homeland security these days, it’s hard to remember that many undocumented travelers come to the United States with pure intentions. This has always been a country of promise, where people from all over the world can escape…
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SXSW Film Review – Song of Granite
Joe Heaney was an Irish singer who specialized in traditional Irish folk music. Born in 1919, Heaney was shy at a young age. He started singing at five years old but did not sing in public until he was twenty. However, he developed a keen…
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SXSW Film Review – Us and Them
Us and Them (2017) starts out seemingly as a biting satire about class warfare. You know the story: a person of low economic stature feeling like they got the short shrift out of life butting heads against a rich person who savors all the privileges…
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Film Review – Get Out
Jordan Peele – best known as a member of the sketch comedy shows MADtv and Key and Peele – has delivered one of the most suspenseful, insightful, and downright entertaining horror films of the year. Correction: this isn’t just a good horror film – this…
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Film Review – A United Kingdom
Seretse Khama was born into one of the royal families of the then British Protectorate of Bechuanaland (now known as Botswana). Although observed as a king, Khama fought for a democratic state free of British rule. He would go on to accomplish just that, and…
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Film Noir Files – Victoria
Pulling An All Nighter The strangest things happen at night. For the title character of Victoria (2015), what starts out innocently enough turns deadly serious when she is placed in an increasingly dangerous situation. That’s the basic essence of noir, when you think about it:…
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