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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 – Ghostbusters (2016) (Second Take)
Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters (2016) is here whether you like it or not. This film has gotten it fair share of flack since it was first announced. First, it was because it was reboot, then a female cast, and then the most disliked movie trailer in…
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Film Review – Ghostbusters (2016)
Hey, did you know there’s a new Ghostbusters movie coming out? After all of the talk surrounding its lead up, Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters (2016) remake is finally hitting screens. And for the buzz generated between it being a remake of a beloved film and the gender…
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SIFF Film Review – Life, Animated
For those that think movies are a just disposable means of escapism, I suggest watching Roger Ross Williams’ Life, Animated (2016). This is a beautiful, heart-wrenching documentary that shows how the power of cinema can break through boundaries and enter a near spiritual realm. It’s…
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Film Review – Captain Fantastic
In writer/director Matt Ross’ Captain Fantastic (2016), a father named Ben (Viggo Mortensen) raises his six kids deep in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. He puts them through tough physical and mental training. They learn how to live off of the land: grow their…
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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 – The Secret Life of Pets
Man, Pixar makes great movies. No, the new film The Secret Life of Pets isn’t a Pixar movie. In fact, if you were to write a compare and contrast thesis on what makes their films great, this new movie would work as your example of…
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