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African Giants

By Ben Shehadi | February 2024

SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! Directed and written by Omar S. Kamara, African Giants follows two African American brothers who spend the…

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! Directed and written by Omar S. Kamara, African Giants follows two African American brothers who spend the weekend...

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It's hard to come up with a fresh concept when vampires are involved. Filmmakers Leland Montgomery and Michael Basha find one in with Black Cat in a Dark...

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The Zone of Interest is a portrait of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) based on Martin Amis's eponymous novel. Amis's book substituted...

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Jen Hogue and Rob Underhill's short film, A Swan's Song, brings awareness to how bipolar disorder can affect our lives and those we love. Our tale opens...

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SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! Marcela Heilbron's fantasy short, Panadrilo, is an odd story of the faith of one's family to one day...

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NOW IN THEATERS! The face that has spilled a thousand bongs finally hits the big screen in director Reinaldo Marcus Green's crowd-pleaser Bob Marley: One...

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SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! No matter how hard we fight it, human beings are social creatures. We need human contact in one form...

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I suppose it is the very nature of a web of intrigue that it can be hard to follow. So it is with Kim Jee-woon's Cobweb, an intricate black comedy set in...

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Directed and edited by Judy Irving, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill follows the adventures of a hippie birdkeeper named Mark Bittner, who cares for the...

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SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! A young romantic uncovers the past he never knew he had in Geoffrey Cowper's romance, Books &...

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