Master Gardener | Film Threat
“Gardening is a belief in the future.” So says the title character at the center of writer-director Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener, a portrait of a very broken man. To overcome one’s dark past, this belief in the future is needed to…
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A Bearded Lady Stands Up For Herself
CANNES – Is it possible for a movie about a woman suffering from excessive hair growth in the 19th century to be, well, predictably formulaic? Granted, there can be some reassurance in that. A story of someone different persevering against…
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How Is That For A Monday?
Do you know who’s really good at being Quentin Tarantino? I’ll give you a hint: friggin’ Tarantino. Yet, as is the case with many wayward filmmakers out to make their mark on cinema, his unmistakable style weasels its way into…
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‘Youth (Spring)’ Review: The Kids Are Underpaid & Flirty [Cannes]
CANNES – We are not one to complain about the length of a film. Directors can make an artistic impact specifically with pacing and structure. Often, a longer work of cinema can have a more profound effect on an audience…
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Alicia Vikander and Jude Law Go Full Tudor
Growing up, I was absolutely fascinated with the Tudors. Henry VIII and his six wives were so intriguing to me that I ate up every novel and non-fiction book I could find. So when watching Karim Aïnouz's Firebrand, I enjoyed…
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A 2023 Horror Con To Remember
Cosplay, traders, celebrity guest signings and more we bring you our HorrorCon UK review right here on Back to the Movies as this weekends horror events draw to a conclusion. HorrorConUK is the UK’s longest running horror fan convention with…
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Gorka | Film Threat
We live in a shrinking world whose boundaries are obscuring and becoming less and less clear each and every day. To this end, in the EU, it’s possible now to be an exchange student in your last year of High…
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Sean Penn Is A Tormented American Hero In An Entertaining Yet Painfully Predictable Thriller
In Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s “Black Flies,” silence is as scarce a commodity as hope. Young first responder Ollie Cross (Tye Sheridan) learns very early on that the job comes with two partners: the one sitting next to you and the relentless…
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‘Strange Way of Life’ Pedro Pascal & Ethan Hawke Sizzle
As much as the cowboys of the American West are associated with being masculine men who are the salt of the earth, so too are they associated with homosexuality. This didn’t start with Brokeback Mountain, though I’m sure that will…
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Cate Blanchett Stars in This Beautiful, Flawed Drama
Set in 1940s, Warwick Thornton presents The New Boy, a story set in a 1940s orphanage located in the rural Australian outbacks. The film follows an unnamed Aboriginal boy played by Aswan Reid who is taken from the wilds of…
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It’s Quieter in the Twilight
NOW IN THEATERS AND ON VOD! I’ve been fascinated with NASA and the space program for as long as I can remember. Technology has rapidly changed the way we approach space exploration today. Most of us don’t realize that there…
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A Disposable Remake That Will Make You Yearn For The Chemistry In The Original
For all of the success that Kenya Barris has had on TV, his film output as a director and especially a screenwriter is bizarrely spotty. For a project like “Girls Trip” (co-written with Tracy Oliver), we then have his directorial…
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