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    Film Review – Superman (2025)

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Film Reviews

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Film Review – Flora and Son

September 29th, 2023 | POSTED BY Allen Almachar

Ever since his critically acclaimed Once (2007), writer/director John Carney has routinely come back to explore the connective power of music. Whether it’s in Begin Again (2013) or Sing Street (2016), Carney has taken a deliberately sentimental approach in how music can heal, inspire, and draw empathy. He basks so deeply in this…

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Film Review – No One Will Save You

September 23rd, 2023 | POSTED BY Allen Almachar

No One Will Save You (2023) is one of the most effective sci-fi thrillers of recent memory. Written and directed by Brian Duffield, this is a lean, taut, and confident alien invasion movie. It gets down to business right away, only amplifying the tension the further along…

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Film Review – El Conde

September 16th, 2023 | POSTED BY Allen Almachar

El Conde (2023) operates on two fronts. On one hand, it is a beautifully gruesome horror fantasy, in which we dive once more into the world of blood sucking vampires. On the other, it is a biting (ba dum!) satire of Chile’s most ruthless dictator, Augusto Pinochet.…

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Film Review – Sitting in Bars with Cake

September 10th, 2023 | POSTED BY Allen Almachar

The title of Sitting in Bars with Cake (2023) is a little bit of a misnomer. Yes, it does in fact feature people sitting in bars eating cake. The film is an adaptation of the book by writer Audrey Shulman (who also wrote the screenplay), which detailed a year…

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Film Review – Perpetrator

September 3rd, 2023 | POSTED BY Allen Almachar

Writer/director Jennifer Reeder juggles several themes throughout Perpetrator (2023). Although the final result is messy and disjointed, I found myself wrapped up in the story if only to see where it all goes. This is a slow burn horror flick with a lot on its mind – from female…

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Film Review – You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah

August 26th, 2023 | POSTED BY Allen Almachar

The title says it all, doesn’t it? You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (2023) is not only an examination of a specific Jewish tradition, it also covers the ups and downs of a kid quickly coming of age. The transition is not an easy…

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Film Review – The Monkey King

August 22nd, 2023 | POSTED BY Allen Almachar

If Netflix really wanted to, they could place themselves firmly as one of the top producers of animated films. Not beholden to the kind of narrative restrictions of say, Disney/Pixar, the streaming giant has released some of the most interesting animation of recent memory. Klaus (2019), The Mitchells…

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Film Review – Bad Things

August 20th, 2023 | POSTED BY Allen Almachar

Writer/director Stewart Thorndike makes explicit the influences that pervade Bad Things (2023). A spooky hotel and the violent events that happen inside of it will undoubtably call to mind Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, The Shining (1980). Thorndike makes several visual and thematic callbacks to that film, and keen observers will have a running…

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