Babysitter

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! Quebec director Monia Chokri's Babysitter is a striking...

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blood

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! What is the acceptable time to love after loss? That is the...

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God’s Country

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! How much of who we are is what we choose to be? This...

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Nothing Compares

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! Nothing Compares is a biopic on the career and life of...

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My Old School

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! To the world, the story of Brandon Lee (not that one) is...

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I Didn’t See You There

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! I have known a few people who suffered the debilitation of...

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Prisoner #1616

Hardened criminal Rudy Vasper (Eric Whitten) languishes his days away in Michael Fodera's short...

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Hatching

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! Director Hanna Bergholm and writer Ilja...

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The Midnight Swim

Writer/director Sarah Adina Smith's eerily profound feature debut The Midnight Swim follows...

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American Night

Written and directed by Alessio Della Vale, the neo-noir American Night takes place in New York...

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Every Day in Kaimuki

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! Every Day in Kaimuki is the first feature of Hawaiian...

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When You Finish Saving the World

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! When You Finish Saving the World is the directorial debut...

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Framing Agnes

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! Framing Agnes is an intimate and personal documentary...

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Master

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! Horror reflects the collective fears of the public...

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After Yang

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! Based on the Alexander Weinstein short story, filmmaker...

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Features

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Five Great 90s Movies Based on True Stories

The 1990s was a great decade for movies and in their search to tell ever more engaging stories, many directors and writers were drawn back...

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When The Matrix first came out, audiences were shocked by how revolutionary the concept of the film was. It was many people’s first real experience with...

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After music, there is perhaps no better display of a love affair between cinema and other art forms than the pairing of fashion and film. Except for the...

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Lana Wachowski's The Matrix Resurrections is probably one of the most self-aware sequels ever made. Do you ever wonder if a filmmaker knows what the...

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In addition to being a film critic for Film Threat, I'm an astronomer, TV host (check me out right now in Killers of the Cosmos on Discovery+), and...

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NEW TO AMAZON PRIME! My first feeling about Aaron Sorkin's Being the Ricardos is that this isn't the movie I expected. In other words, it's not your...

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Be a part of a special watch party for the indie animated feature The Spine of Night featuring the voice talents of Lucy Lawless, Richard E. Grant, Larry...

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Dr. Stephen Strange could have had a hell of a side hustle among celebrity parents who paid to have their offspring enrolled at an elite...

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Peter Parker will always be Spider-Man, but I remember picking up the first issue of Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man and thinking about the amazing...

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The Sunset Circle Awards today awarded "Dune" Best Film of 2021 and named its director, Denis Villeneuve, Best Director. With six overall wins, Dune was...

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SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! The afterlife of Princess Diana is alive more than ever, especially with the most recent...

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NOW ON VOD! A while back, I reviewed the tepid short The Awful Kind, opining how its one-take shot was a mere gimmick, as the...

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Requin is a word describing tropical sea sharks who are "characterized by a nictitating membrane and a heterocercal tail." The...

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