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Film Review – Uncle Frank
Coming of age and life-changing films are a dime a dozen, but in this 2020 slump, sometimes seeing positive films can improve your mood and make you a bit happier. Uncle Frank is not all kindness and positivity, but in a roundabout way creates a validity…
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Film Review – Sound of Metal
If there is a film out there in the universe that may discuss or interpret an affliction that I have, I’m going to see it and judge it based on its preconceived notions and research (or lack of, *cough* Baby Driver *cough*). Sound of Metal focuses…
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Film Review – Time
Time can appear to move as slow or fast, depending on how it is perceived. When the perceiver is doing something they love, time can fly by. However, when life has to move on normally, and your self is stuck in a moment, pleading with the aftermath…
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Film Review – 12 Hour Shift
12 Hour Shift is challenging to put into one genre; it flows between a dark comedy, horror/slasher, and workplace drama (is that a genre?). Written and directed by Brea Grant, it follows Mandy (Angela Bettis) as she settles into her long shift as a nurse in…
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Film Review – Alone
As we continue to live our lives in varying degrees of isolation, it is only natural that films filmed prior to March 2020 may have the upper hand in preying on our enhanced fear and hyper-self-awareness. After the debacle of Unhinged, director John Hyams brings us…
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Film Review – Unhinged
It appears that there is a mad rush to be one of the first new films to be available to watch when movie theatres open in the US. Solstice Studios took advantage of the press around the reopenings, and its film, Unhinged, is the first film…
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Film Review – Most Wanted
Most Wanted is a “based on a true story,” revolving around the drug trade in Canada in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the attempts by the federal police to run stings to stop the flow of drugs into the country. On the heels of…
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Film Review – Relic
Like so many films, Relic released to streaming on Friday, rather than a theatrical release. This is my first film review since the virus pandemic started. Streaming a film that is meant to be on the big screen in a dark room, especially with the horror genre,…
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