Alex Saveliev

The Bestowal

By Alex Saveliev | August 2019

Don’t let The Bestowal‘s cosmic key art fool you. Speculative science fiction is one of my favorite genres, but Andrew de Burgh’s…

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Don’t let The Bestowal's cosmic key art fool you. Speculative science fiction is one of my favorite genres, but Andrew de Burgh’s debut feature...

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Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage’s Them That Follow follows on the heels of Ari Aster’s excellent mind-fuck Midsommar. Both films deal with...

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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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