Rob Rector

Fire of Love

By Rob Rector | June 2022

MENDOCINO FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! There’s tragic timeliness to Fire of Love, Sara Dosa’s documentary about two top volcanologists, Katia and Maurice…

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MENDOCINO FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! There's tragic timeliness to Fire of Love, Sara Dosa's documentary about two top volcanologists, Katia and Maurice...

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If you, or anyone you know, has encountered sleep paralysis, it's easy to understand how it can fuel horror films such as writer-director Leroy...

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Cordelia, written by director Adrian Shergold and star Antonia Campbell-Hughes, opens with a scene in which we see a young girl waking from a bad dream in...

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In the United States, suicide rates have increased a staggering 30 percent in the last two decades. Unfortunately, given our country's track record in...

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In light of some states' all-out assault on the LGBTQ+ community, Childen of Sin could not be more timely. In the grand tradition of horror stemming from...

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Sadly, there's no shortage of source material for tragic tales of gun violence in the United States. Luis Gerard's powerful short The Wake feels both...

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Having not witnessed the preceding installments of the Serial Rabbit series, I am not sure if I am all caught up with the intricate plotlines, narrative...

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In her last film, The Desperate Hour (reviewed under its original title of Lakewood), Naomi Watts showcased a physically demanding performance as a mother...

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When the term "disaster movie" is bandied about, the country of Norway is perhaps not the first to come to mind. Yet the country has been producing a...

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Walking into Death on the Nile, you may feel as though you stumbled into a screening of 1917. The camera weaves through the trenches of a WWI battle that...

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