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Film Review – The Dinner
Two boys commit a terrible crime and have yet to answer for it. Two sets of parents meet to decide what to do. Over six courses at an elegant, exclusive restaurant, one defensive front will be tenuously constructed in order to move forward. The Dinner,…
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Film Review – Shut In
The snowy thriller Shut In revolves around a child psychologist and her disabled stepson who get trapped in their house that may or may not be haunted during a winter storm. That she is the worst child psychologist since Hugh Grant in Nine Months and the…
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Film Review – The Love Witch
“Maybe life could be a fairy tale if you pleased your husband more,” says a self-proclaimed witch to a concerned housewife in Anna Biller’s dark comedy-horror-fantasy, The Love Witch, about how feminine mystique, wiles, and competition attempts to undercut the patriarchy not by switching gender…
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Film Review – Kids in Love
Kids in Love treads the line between a video commercial for Anthropologie and the creeping anxiety of reality and adulthood that threaten to crash the funky, bohemian party of a group of London teens. Written by Sebastian De Souza and Preston Thompson, who also act…
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Film Review – Don’t Think Twice
On the surface, Don’t Think Twice is a film about a troupe of improv players called The Commune and their struggles to not only survive but thrive in New York City. It would have been a great film right there, set in the back rooms…
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Film Review – Little Men (2016)
“Know when to insist and when to stop…(when) to push themselves and relax,” a father tries to advise his son, a budding artist, on realizing the balance between artistic talent and an artistic career. Ira Sachs‘s latest film, Little Men, is full of people struggling…
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Film Review – Hardcore Henry
Going into Hardcore Henry, I was worried I’d get sick from all the frantic, jumpy camera work and whiz-bang special effects. Surprisingly, I had less nausea than expected, but more sleepiness towards the end as Henry’s efficiency in killing faceless bad guys grows too predictable.…
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SXSW Film Review – Rainbow Time
Rainbow Time is about two brothers trying to achieve a semblance of control through the lens of a camera, where any insecurity can be spliced, edited, and erased. Rather than strengthening their relationships with their subjects, it only obfuscates the roles they play in real life.
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