Alex Saveliev

The Operative

By Alex Saveliev | August 2019

Talk about a bummer. Yuval Adler’s latest somber spy thriller The Operative is about as far removed from the likes of The…

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Talk about a bummer. Yuval Adler’s latest somber spy thriller The Operative is about as far removed from the likes of The Bourne Identity or 007 as a...

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The “Face of Women’s MMA,” Gina Carano’s career in Hollywood took off (sort of) in 2011 when Steven Soderbergh picked her as lead Mallory...

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The title Ladyworld refers to a painting of a woman—her beautiful front turned away from us, revealing her back, covered in lacerations and maggots....

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In an industry saturated with borderline-indistinguishable fare that panders to audience expectations, it’s refreshing to see an independent feature...

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“You have to love someone pretty hard to let them pass encryption,” says a character in writer/director Christopher Soren Kelly’s feature-length...

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I’m not a Game of Thrones fan (I know, I know, give it a break). My wife and I tried watching it at least five times, and each time we’d reach episode...

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Jamie Bell has come a long way since doing pirouettes in Billy Elliot. That breakout performance led to the actor appearing in a slew of wildly disparate...

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Films about the plight of the Tibetan people living under – or escaping – Chinese oppression are far and few between. One of the many things that makes...

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Surfing is truly a unique sport. “The ocean… There’s really no other playing field like it,” one of the interviewee's states in Aaron Lieber’s...

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Adam Sherman has had quite the eclectic filmmaking career. He produced Goran Dukic’s odd “almost-cult-classic” dramedy Wristcutters: A Love Story. He...

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