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SXSW Film Review – The Most Hated Woman in America
The powerhouse that is Netflix has begun showing upcoming features at film festivals, and this included SXSW this year. Having its world premiere at the festival, The Most Hated Woman in America is written by Irene Turner and Tommy O’Haver (both worked on An American…
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Film Review – T2 Trainspotting
“What is choose life?” The question, which is asked to Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), hits him unaware and leaves him thinking for a moment. Renton, an ex-heroine addict, has returned home after twenty years away. He takes his moment and then unleashes a stream-of-conscious, quick…
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Film Review – Life
In director Daniel Espinosa’s latest movie Life, a crew of astronauts aboard the International Space Station must struggle to save their own against an invader from Mars. The scenario is by no means unique, new, or something you haven’t otherwise already seen, unless you don’t…
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Film Review – Power Rangers
As a kid, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers television show existed as a means to distract myself during its thirty-minute timeslot. I didn’t commit to watching it whenever it came on. Sometimes I would stop to catch it while flipping channels. I didn’t have a…
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Film Review – Wilson
I’ve seen Ghost World roughly a dozen times and Art School Confidential exactly once. That’s not meant as condemnation against the latter, necessarily, although I think it says something that I’ve not ever had the inclination to re-investigate.
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SXSW Film Review – Baby Driver
Other than the cast, it being an Edgar Wright film, and a photo, not much had been known about Baby Driver prior to its world premiere at SXSW. It is kind of a unique thing to be at an official world premiere of any film,…
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SXSW Film Review – Lucky
One of the more independent films I saw at SXSW was Lucky. There was already buzz about the film due to Harry Dean Stanton’s involvement and actor John Carroll Lynch’s first time as a director. The film had its world premiere at SXSW.
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SXSW Film Review – Colossal
*This review is somewhat spoilery as it discusses plot points not seen in any of the promotional material for the film so far.* Colossal is debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival late last year, and has been growing in buzz ever since. It became…
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