Los Angeles Film Festival

A Simple Wedding

By Jordaine Givens | June 2020

NEW TO DVD REVIEW! A Simple Wedding follows thirty-something Nousha Husseini (Tara Grammy), who is looking for any means necessary to avoid the…

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NEW TO DVD REVIEW! A Simple Wedding follows thirty-something Nousha Husseini (Tara Grammy), who is looking for any means necessary to avoid the arranged...

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In a large mansion just outside of a small town in Vermont lives two young sisters, Mary Katherine “Merricat” (Taissa Farmiga) and Constance (Alexandra...

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Obsession is always an excellent subject for a documentary. The obsessive-compulsive subject who focuses on just one thing, and spends his/her life...

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Mark Jackson’s third feature This Teacher starts with Hafsia (Hafsia Herzi in a role written specifically for her) arriving in New York City to visit her...

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Daredevil Eddie Braun has a dream... to successfully complete Evel Knievel's infamous Snake River Canyon jump in a high-powered rocket. Director Kurt...

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If you’re going to tell a story about a dying, two-bit criminal and a perennially victimized, nineteen-year-old prostitute, Galveston is as good a place...

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The butterfly effect, first popularized in sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury’s short time travel story “A Sound of Thunder," postulates how one small action...

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Living in Southern California, the problem of homelessness is a significant issue, but the problem exists in almost every major city around the world. To...

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Before writing this review, I didn’t think I would have much to say about the film but as I thought about it, I did have a lot to say because so does...

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History is funny. The narratives we tell about the great figures of the past are more important than the actual truth. The classic is George Washington and...

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