Indie
Film Review – The Rover (Second Take)
David Michôd’s follow-up to the award-winning Animal Kingdom is The Rover. Like Animal Kingdom, it is also set in Australia, but the film is bleaker and has less characters. The Rover is set ten years after “the collapse.” It is never explained more than that…
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SIFF Film Review – You Must Be Joking
They say comedy is harder to pull off than drama. Making an audience laugh is much more difficult than making them feel emotional. It takes a lot of nerve to hop on a stage and get that kind of reaction out of strangers. I can…
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Film Review – Of Silence
Jeremiah Sayys’s independent psychological horror film, Of Silence, is an enigma. The movie unravels slowly, dropping off clues here and there to broaden the story and to key you in to the events going on, but the more information I received, it felt like the…
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Film Review – Locke
Tom Hardy has become a sought after actor within the past few years. Warrior, The Dark Knight Rises, and Inception have cemented his talent for taking on roles totally different and unexpected than the next. His role in Locke is no different.
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DIFF Film Review – Dom Hemingway
“Is my cock exquisite?” That is the first line uttered in Dom Hemingway. What follows is a monologue on Dom Hemingway’s penis that rival none ever seen or heard before. It is poetry, only cruder. That is the audience’s introduction to the film and the…
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SXSW Film Review – Joe
We all know the Nicolas Cage memes and have seen the random photos of him looking disheveled out and about. The past few years have not brought Cage any critical acclaim or public fervor since 2010’s Kick-Ass. There is reason to be critical of going…
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SXSW Film Review – 13 Sins
13 Sins is a new horror/thriller film from Daniel Stamm (The Last Exorcism). Based off a Thai film called 13: Game of Death, the film centers on a game that involves completing thirteen tasks or challenges. Each completed challenge gives the contestant a larger sum…
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SXSW Film Review – Predestination
Science fiction is a pretty broad genre for films. They can include space, aliens, the future, some weird other-worldly element, and many other things. What was the last sci-fi film you loved? Did it make you think or try to figure out the outcome? If…
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