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Film Review – The Hustle
The Hustle opens in a bar with a man wearing his button-up shirt that’s just a tad too open. He is waiting for his date, who he met through a dating app. The buxom blonde in the photos is too good to be true and…
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DIFF Film Review – Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile
Joe Berlinger is widely known as an acclaimed film documentary producer and director with credits like The Paradise Lost trilogy, Iconoclasts, and Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger. Berlinger recently focused his work on the serial killer Ted Bundy. He produced and…
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Film Review – The Best of Enemies
The Best of Enemies focuses on the racial tensions and discrimination in 1971 Durham, North Carolina. It is based on the true story of what happened when the possible integration of the city’s schools came to the forefront and quickly due to a school fire…
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SXSW Film Review – Little Monsters
Lupita Nyong’o had two films at SXSW that involved her being covered in blood. One was Us and the other was Little Monsters, which is the most atypical film that one would ever expect Lupita to star in, let alone be the heroine of the…
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Film Review – The Aftermath
The Aftermath is a period drama set in Hamburg, Germany in 1945, five months after many parts of the city were leveled at the end of World War II. James Kent (Testament of Youth) directed the film based on a script by Joe Shrapnel, Anna…
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SXSW Film Review – Them That Follow
Them That Follow is a film that screamed thriller or horror to me at SXSW. Unless you are terrified of snakes, this film is a drama set in a remote Appalachian town that does not have money but plenty of faith. This faith is what…
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SXSW Film Review – Running with Beto
“We gotta run like there is nothing to lose.” US Congressman Beto O’Rourke ran for Ted Cruz’s Senate seat from the great state of Texas in 2018. Director David Modigliani (Crawford, 61 Bullets) had a personal relationship with Beto and the foresight to think he would…
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Film Review – The Kid
As a longtime fan of Vincent D’Onofrio’s work in front of the camera, The Kid presented an opportunity to see what he is capable behind it. As the director, D’Onofrio hopefully would take his immense knowledge of being in the film industry and be able…
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