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Watching Walter

By Alan Ng | February 2026

SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Director Mitch Yapko’s Watching Walter, written by Mark Dylan Brown, uses a simple pocket watch…

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SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Director Mitch Yapko's Watching Walter, written by Mark Dylan Brown, uses a simple...

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SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Co-directors/co-writers Hossein Keshavarz and Maryam Ataei, Iranians who live in New York, present a snapshot of the...

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Writer/director/star Garrett Schulte's feature debut is a labor of love called The Sky's Forest. It is a science fiction/horror film with a creature and a...

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SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Any parent will tell you that raising children is tough. For people who don't have kids, it's...

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SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Writer-director Robert M. Redfield's Committee Animal asks questions about the grand...

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NOW IN THEATERS! Director Mamoru Hosoda swings for the fences with Scarlet, an epic fantasy built around a single emotional theme and a whole lot of...

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Fruitvale Station meets Good Will Hunting in Ronnel Ricardo Parham's Odd Man Out: Part 1 and Odd Man Out: Part 2. The auteurist peregrination follows the...

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NOW IN THEATERS! Directed by Brett Ratner, Melania follows the soon-to-be-second-time First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump, in the 20 days...

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SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! In Ralph Torrefranca's short srama Fil-Am, it's 2003, and Jonah (Deuce Basco) has carved out a...

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SF INDIEFEST 2026 REVIEW! Some of the best and weirdest stuff associated with American culture comes right out of San Francisco. That's explored in...

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