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Film Review – Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
Zack Snyder is a filmmaker who has always put effort into making big, bold, and splashy imagery. Whether it’s superheroes, Spartans, zombies, or an army of owls, Snyder has routinely leaned toward dark and dramatic visual compositions. That would explain why he so often chooses to…
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Film Review – Leave the World Behind
The thing about movies where people face a catastrophic event – whether it be nuclear fallout, a zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion, etc. – is that they usually start off with an intriguing premise. Everyday life gets interrupted by mysterious happenings, and as characters realize…
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Film Review – The Killer
“Do not improvise. Stick to the plan. Forbid empathy. Trust no one. Breathe.” These sayings are repeated again and again by the main character of The Killer (2023). This unnamed assassin goes by these rules like self-help mottos, using them as a guide to be as efficient…
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Film Review – Killers of the Flower Moon
It is remarkable that Martin Scorsese – now entering his ninth decade of life – continues to push the art of cinema in new and interesting ways. Since 1976, with the release of Taxi Driver, Scorsese has stood at the top of the filmmaking world – a title…
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Film Review – Reptile
On paper, Reptile (2023) checks off all the boxes of your classic murder mystery: a twisty, convoluted plot with plenty of wrong turns and dead ends, a detective doggedly pursuing the case just as the rest of his life is on the brink of collapse, a mounting…
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Film Review – No One Will Save You
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 – Perpetrator
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 – Bad Things
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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