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Film Review – This Is Me…Now
J-Lo just loves love, y’all. If there’s one thing about Jennifer Lopez’s This Is Me…Now (2024), it’s that she wears her heart completely on her sleeve. Coinciding with her latest album of the same name, this “film” plays like a collage of music videos with a loose story…
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Film Review – Suncoast
There are a lot of heavy themes running all throughout Suncoast (2024). Many of them can be politically triggering, involving the never-ending debate between pro-life vs. pro-choice, religion, and the ethics of death. Plenty of people have strong feelings about these topics, no matter what side of…
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Film Review – Fitting In
The human body is a weird, scary, and wonderful thing. This is especially true for women. Granted, I’m not the best person to go to when it comes to understanding the female body. The strangeness and terror of going through puberty, sexual awakening, menstrual cycles,…
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Film Review – Sometimes I Think About Dying
Despite its somewhat misleading title, Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023) is not a dreary or morbid watch. In fact, it is the opposite. This is a sweet, funny, and beautiful tale of everyday people going about their daily lives. It’s about taking chances and stepping out…
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Film Review – Trunk: Locked In
Deep within the vast confines of the streaming landscape is a German-language thriller that offers a bit more flair than we would suspect. Trunk: Locked In (2023) is a tense and visually flashy crime story. That’s saying a lot, given that it takes place almost exclusively within…
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Film Review – I.S.S.
I.S.S. (2023) presents an intriguing premise. The International Space Station is a laboratory, observatory, and research facility that has been orbiting Earth since the late 1990s. The “ISS” came to be through the collaboration of multiple countries – namely the United States and Russia. As of…
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In Memory – Cassidy Robinson
The following was written by Keith Foster, cohost of The MacGuffin Podcast. Transcribed with his permission. It is with a heavy, heavy heart that I have to tell you last weekend Cassidy Robinson passed away. He was my best friend for almost thirty years, we’ve…
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Film Review – Self Reliance
Jake Johnson takes on the triple threat role of writer, director, and star of Self Reliance (2023). His feature-length directorial debut is equal parts absurdist thriller and sweet romance. Like that of The Most Dangerous Game (1932), the film uses the concept of humans being hunted down for sport. In…
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