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An Army of Women

By Benjamin Franz | March 2024

SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! An Army of Women is the first documentary from Julie Lunde Lillesæter. A cinematographer by trade, she opted to…

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SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! An Army of Women is the first documentary from Julie Lunde Lillesæter. A cinematographer by trade, she opted to produce,...

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SF DOCFEST 2023 REVIEW! Arguably, the best documentaries are about just your plain old, run-of-the-mill, eccentric person who is a legend to only a handful...

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The Big Bend tells the story of family man Corey Price (Jason Butler Harner) taking his brood on a trip to West Texas. They visit their friends, the...

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RETURNING TO THEATERS! The quick history of the phrase Juneteenth dates back to the Emancipation Proclamation when Texas became the last hold out regarding...

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Sports contain a litany of metaphors for everything inspiring, especially in film. This fact is confirmed in director Todd Randall's Under The Stadium...

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SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! I attended the SXSW Film Festival in 2019 for the first time. It was also the first time I spent any significant amount of...

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NEW TO VOD! Death row is a place where no one wants to end up. Particularly if a person isn't guilty. It's not my place to say how often that happens, but...

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I was such a boring teenager in the 80s. At the behest of my friends, I never went to night clubs nor got involved in designer drugs (i.e., MDMA and...

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Will thieves ever learn that that “one last job” never goes according to plans. Partners turn on partners, some important missing detail, and no one is...

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The 2019 SXSW Film Festival had an incredible line-up of films from a documentary about dog grooming to a music doc about a Japanese guitarist obsessed...

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