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Film Review – Blade of the Immortal
Blade of the Immortal is an action-packed samurai film that gives the thrill of battle and enough complexity in its characters and concepts to keep you invested in more than just the awesome sword battles! Jumping right in, samurai Manji (Takuya Kimura) is being hunted…
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The Villainess plays with the action genre in some different ways with clever editing and good fights but it can’t quite deliver being more than just an above average revenge flick. It starts with a great epic fighting sequence shot like a first person shooter…
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Gook takes a rare look at race relations in the United States and does it with surprising delicacy that avoids preaching but never sacrifices its message. When the film starts we see an eleven year old African American girl we later learn is named Kamilla…
READ MORESIFF Film Review – City of Ghosts
Raqqa, a city in Syria, has been overtaken by ISIS and a select few are doing what they can to find out the truth about what is happening in their home town. This is to be applauded, yet City of Ghosts is strong on information…
READ MOREFilm Review – Buster’s Mal Heart
Buster’s Mal Heart is a predictable mystery film that offers little in the way of surprises, and what surprises it does have are underplayed to the point of being uninteresting. Our lead Buster (Rami Malek) is a pretty basic person, who is happily married to…
READ MORESXSW Film Review – Flesh and Blood
Trying to be both a documentary and narrative film Flesh and Blood fails spectacularly at both. Going into this movie cold the first thought that came to me was is this a documentary? Because the acting by Cheri Honkala is really stilted. It’s as if…
READ MOREFilm Review – Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America
Well-meaning in its goals, Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America suffers from a lack of real discussion about its subject matter and some very shoddy film making. Daryl Davis is a middle-aged black man who has worked with some of the most famous musicians in…
READ MOREFilm Review – Things to Come
Isabelle Huppert brilliantly holds together Things to Come a confounding yet still fascinating film. Director Mia Hansen-Løve has a style that is hard to pin down. She likes to create as much real life as she can in her films that sometimes leads to me…
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