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SXSW Film Review – A Stray
A Stray, directed by Musa Syeed (Valley of Saints), is about the symbiosis of faith in God and in oneself. It is about a man being both a stray and astray, bobbing anchorless across a sea far from home.
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SXSW Film Review – Loev
Loev, the first feature from writer-director Sudhanshu Saria, is at its most beautiful and heartbreaking when it focuses on what is said when the characters aren’t speaking, and what is avoided when they do. This is a film about love between two people who can…
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A Look At Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films (2016)
The five Oscar nominated short films this year hail from Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. They involve themes of communication, belonging, honor, and isolation. Each contains at least one moment, even if barely a glimmer, of understanding between two characters separated by age,…
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An Analysis – American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson (2016)
The first episode of Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski’s American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson is entitled “From the Ashes of Tragedy.” It opens with footage of the beating of Rodney King by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, interspersed with the…
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Film Review – The Forest (2016)
In Jason Zada‘s The Forest, a young woman named Sara receives a premonition that something bad has happened to her twin sister who is living overseas. As one twin can sense the emotions of the other twin, Sara immediately sets out to find her sister, Jess.…
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6 Thrillers or Horror Films Set in School
School is supposed to be a safe haven for students and teachers: a place for growth, learning, exploration, and security. Unfortunately, it can also be a period of awkwardness, isolation, and torment, depending on what side of the cafeteria you ate. Horror films or thrillers…
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Top Female Performances of 2015
Written by Brooke Corso and Sarah Ksiazek To cover a year in which the state of women in Hollywood – both in front of and behind the camera – is increasingly scrutinized, questioned, and restructured, we chose roles across genres and even selected one actress…
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Film Review – Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a film about beginnings and endings within a young Irish immigrant’s life, and her struggle to experience it all, to be in and of everything she does rather than let things happen or follow the accepted order of events for a woman of…
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