Alex Saveliev

Cactus Jack

By Alex Saveliev | January 2021

We’re living in tumultuous times. The COVID-19 pandemic still has the world in its deadly grasp. Xenophobia reigns supreme, catalyzed by social…

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We're living in tumultuous times. The COVID-19 pandemic still has the world in its deadly grasp. Xenophobia reigns supreme, catalyzed by social media....

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SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Hazel McKibbin's short and incisive treatise, cleverly titled Doublespeak, focuses on how far we've yet to go when it...

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In the wake of The Blair Witch Project, found-footage horror has become a go-to for filmmakers with ideas as grand as their budget is small. The shaky,...

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NOW IN VIRTUAL CINEMAS! The title of Fernanda Valadez’ Identifying Features refers to the bodies of Mexican migrants – a lot of them young children –...

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Alex McAulay's Don't Tell a Soul defines "guilty pleasure." I do not believe the grim, monochrome film was intended as such. I believe that McAulay...

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"Does it make any sense to you?" a character in writer/ director Michael Glover's 36 Husbands asks, reading a script. "We gotta talk to the writers....

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NOW ON NETFLIX! Director George C. Wolfe's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom blew me away. What a joy it is to experience a film so fervently impassioned and...

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Filmmaker Renji Philip has clearly seen his share of Terrence Malick films. In his romantic drama The Wake of Light, the camera "becomes" the wind,...

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Once in a blue moon, a film comes along that's both immaculately produced and oddly detached. On the one hand, Woo Min-ho's historical espionage...

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127 Hours meets 47 Meters Down in Joachim Hedén's succinct, nail-biting survival story Breaking Surface. Substitute Utah's sun-scorched rocks with a...

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