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Film Review – After Love
After Love shows how the world has to keep going even when the love of a long time relationship has ended and there are the realities of the aftermath. Maria (Bérénice Bejo) and Boris (Cédric Kahn) are a couple with two school age girls who…
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Film Review – Morris From America
Morris From America avoids many pitfalls in this well-constructed coming of age story. Morris (Markees Christmas), a thirteen year old African American, is living in Germany with his father Curtis (Craig Robinson), who works for a soccer team. Morris is adapting relatively well to his…
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Film Review – Land and Shade
Land and Shade brings a quiet dignity to life of a Columbian family dealing with extraordinary and ordinary life. Alfonso (Haimer Leal), an old man walking with a quiet dignity and purpose down a dirty road surrounded by sugar cane, is going to stay and help…
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Film Review – The Kind Words
In The Kind Words secret revelations about a family’s past seem to have no effect on a group of grown children who meander around for two hours never changing or growing. Dorona Cohen (Rotem Zissman-Cohen), the only daughter in the family, is currently separated from…
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SIFF Film Review – Middle Man
For all its quirks and bizarre story line Middle Man fails to really land on what it wants to be about. Lenny (Jim O’Heir), a middle-age average man who has lost his mother, decides to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a comedian and drives out to…
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Film Review – Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously
Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously is a fine film to show right before you meet the author at an event honoring him, but as a feature film it lacks depth and details to make it beyond Gaiman fanatics. The film follows Neil Gaiman on what he…
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Film Review – Our Kind of Traitor
The score setting off Our Kind of Traitor creates a sense of unease as we see a beautifully dressed teenage girl enjoying a ballet concert in juxtaposition with her father signing some papers in a fancy board room full of well dressed but dangerous looking…
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SXSW Film Review – Phil’s Camino
Coming in at just under thirty minutes, Phil’s Camino is too short to really let us connect but also has too little material to make it any longer. Phil Volker is an elderly man who has found out that he is suffering from cancer, and…
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