Michael Talbot-Haynes

Cisco Kid

By Michael Talbot-Haynes | January 2023

SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! The American pioneer spirit still rides through the lost western lands in writer-director Emily Kaye Allen’s spectacular…

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! The American pioneer spirit still rides through the lost western lands in writer-director Emily Kaye Allen's...

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Anyone wanting to see what a John Sayles film on acid might be like, please see indie auteur Antero Alli's feature The Alchemy of Sulphur. Hope (Helia...

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NOW ON VOD! Living off the grid goes off the rails in the powerful Manifest West, written and directed by Joe Dietsch and Louie Gibson. The thriller...

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NOW ON VOD! Sometimes, on very rare occasions, you suddenly realize it's the film that is watching you, not the other way around. You can feel its hungry...

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PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! In the intricate documentary Bye Bye Tiberias, director Lina Soualem chronicles the female lineage of...

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The Die Hard holiday brutality subgenre is alive and living in New Jersey, as evidenced by the over-the-edge Christmas thriller The Retaliators,...

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I was lucky enough to live in Austin in the 1990s during the great rise of their film festivals. I got to see SXSW come into its own and do all of the...

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The boundaries between an artist's life story and ornate tombstone shatter in the moving Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody by director...

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Be prepared to enter the nightmare world that exists between the shadows in writer/director Jeffery Husselman's sinister feature Streetwalker. Ruby...

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Written, directed, cut, and shot by indie auteur Antero Alli, the eyebrow-launching feature Tracer is proof of the existence of secret cinematic kicks...

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