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Film Review – The Age of Adaline
On a distant planet far off in the galaxy, an alien life form got a tickle under its nose and sneezed. This sneeze caused a ripple effect throughout the universe, eventually shifting the Earth’s rotational axis by .0002 degrees. The global change forced the Earth’s…
READ MOREAn Appreciation – Heat
Michael Mann’s Heat (1995) is the culmination of a career long obsession for its creator. For as long as Mann has been a filmmaker, he’s constantly returned to the same subject: the intricacies and nuances of characters operating on both sides of the law. Cops…
READ MOREFilm Review – Backcountry
And people wonder why I don’t go camping. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Mother Nature. Yes, being out in the wilderness offers beautiful and serene sights. On the flipside, there’s poison ivy, rough terrain, and God knows what kind of animal life roaming around.…
READ MORESXSW Film Review – The Nymphets
In The Nymphets (2015), a well established thirty something named Joe (Kip Pardue) runs into two girls outside of a bar. Brittany (Annabelle Dexter-Jones) and Allyson (Jordan Lane Price) are loud, rowdy, playful, and flirtatious. They quickly take a liking to Joe, and he finds…
READ MORESXSW Film Review – Uncle John
Uncle John (2015) starts off with a fantastic opening sequence. Accompanied by a voiceover reciting scripture and describing the likes of hellfire, we see images of dusty back roads, expansive countryside, and the eerie calmness of a small lake. Then, we see a murder take…
READ MORESXSW Film Review – Life in Color
Katharine Emmer taps into something real in Life in Color (2015). Written, directed, co-produced and co-starring Emmer herself, she tackles that very strange time in a person’s life where direction and purpose are not always defined. We’ve seen plenty of coming of age stories where…
READ MOREFilm Review – Furious 7
The Fast & Furious series is one of those rare franchises that have actually improved the further it goes. Fourteen years have passed since the first, and only in the last few years has it really found its stride. A lot of that has to…
READ MORESXSW Film Review – Lamb
The success of Ross Partridge’s Lamb (2015) really depends on whether or not you can buy into its premise. If you can believe that a middle aged man and a pre-pubescent girl – who have never met before – can reasonably coexist, then there may…
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