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Suicide

Kaishaku

By Hannah Cronk | October 2025

Kaishaku, directed by Harry Locke IV, opens brutally, juxtaposed with a slow song in black and white, and continues to shock from…

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Kaishaku, directed by Harry Locke IV, opens brutally, juxtaposed with a slow song in black and white, and continues to shock from there. The film begins as...

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Sunlight stars co-writer/director Nina Conti as Jane, a woman in a monkey costume. She breaks into and begins driving a man's recreational vehicle. Said...

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NOW IN THEATERS! Florian Zeller's The Father, from 2020, addresses the toll Alzheimer's and dementia can have on a family. His follow-up, The Son, shines...

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Suicide has always been an epidemic ravaging the world, and the COVID lockdowns certainly didn't help. According to the CDC, suicide rates jumped 30% from...

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To mourn those who have passed is a shared human experience. People come into our lives, and just as suddenly, they leave. Often, the exit is hard, and the...

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AFI FILM FEST 2021 REVIEW! The Kosovo drama Vera Dreams of the Sea doesn't bring much novelty to the "intense character study" subgenre of cinematic...

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Each day in the U.S., there are 3,041 suicide attempts by high schools students alone. Michael Leoni's feature film When Today Ends takes on the subject of...

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Warning: The documentary Mallory and this review contain traumatic events and topics of suicide. A 12-year-old girl, Mallory Grossman,...

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NEW TO VOD! I'm not too fond of films that go down all-too-familiar paths. At the same time, I love it when walking down that same-old-road a film takes an...

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Sometimes life gives us that all-important wake-up call, usually at the oddest moments and in the most inane places. In Mojean Aria's Lucy, a lonely man...

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