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SXSW Film Review – Ktown Cowboys
Based off the popular online series, Ktown Cowboys (2015) follows five friends as they navigate their lives in the Korea Town district of Los Angeles. I’m not familiar with the series, but director Daniel ‘DPD’ Park (who shares story credits with Jeff Hoffman and Danny…
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SXSW Film Review – Nina Forever
One of the strengths of brothers Ben Blaine and Chris Blaine’s Nina Forever (2015) is how it can’t be classified within any particular genre. It has some gruesome and disturbing elements, but it’s not really a horror film. It has some moments of humor, but it’s…
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SXSW Film Review – Made in Japan
Made in Japan is a musical documentary where the passion for the subject is clear but the craft behind it is less compelling. Tomi Fujiyama is a name probably not known to many of us, but she is one of the defining personalities when it…
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SXSW Film Review – Get Hard
SXSW in the past few years has procured a few “mainstream,” non-indie films for their line-ups. This year was no exception with Spy, Trainwreck, and Get Hard premiering at the film fest. A sucker for the comedy of Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell separately, the…
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Film Review – Home
DreamWorks’ animated adventure Home (2015) is the cinematic equivalent of cotton candy. It’s colorful and sugary sweet, but disappears almost immediately after consumption. There’s not much substance going on here, and whatever emotion it tries to reach toward remains on the surface at best. That’s not…
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Film Review – Merchants of Doubt
There are at least two sides to every issue, right? We often assume a good news report should be balanced and present alternative viewpoints to give the viewer as much data as possible. When dealing with issues of opinion or ideas, presenting the other side…
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SXSW Film Review – Ava’s Possessions
Jordan Galland’s Ava’s Possessions (2015) starts off in midstream. When we first meet Ava (Louisa Krause), she has just gone through an extensive exorcism held by Father Merrino (John Ventimiglia). Once back in control of her body, Ava realizes that she has been possessed for…
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SXSW Film Review – The Last Man on the Moon
When you attend film festivals, you will see films that are okay, absolutely awful, and, if you are lucky, one of your new favorite films of the year. The Last Man on the Moon falls into the latter category.
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