SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! The Palestinian perspective is admittedly a new point of view for me. The little that I do hear in the media is usually skewed towards a negative representation of their culture. The cinematic…
Read moreWritten and directed by Alice Rohrwacher, Le Pupille is set in an Italian orphanage at the heart of World War II. The film boasts that its narrative circles around the possibly true, though exaggerated, story of a young orphan and her temptation…
Read more"Who gives a fuck about movies?" asks Ghostface early in Scream VI, the sixth entry in the beloved, referential slasher franchise that was rebooted with 2022's unfortunately named but mostly well-done Scream. Like the legacy sequels (or "requels" as the…
Read moreAccording to an urban legend, in 1947, in Soviet Russia, an experiment was conducted in which five prisoners were promised freedom if they could stay awake for 30 consecutive days in a chamber. This would be administered using a gas…
Read moreScream is back on the big screen and whilst I entered the cinema eagerly excited at a franchise that has never bored me to this date, I lasted 15 minutes before I experienced my first yawn. The hype for this…
Read moreBased on the 2018 Spanish film of the same name, the American version of Champions is less powerful because it doesn’t take its cues from the real-life team that inspired the original film. Still, Champions manages to have just enough…
Read moreThere is nothing quite as demoralizing as waking up day after day knowing that the world is sliding further and further toward climate catastrophe. This is not something that any one person alone is having to deal with; a warming…
Read moreThere is something remarkable about how completely 65 wastes all it had going for it. Taking Adam Driver, one of the best actors working today, and throwing him onto a prehistoric Earth where he has to fight dinosaurs seems like…
Read moreScream VI follows the survivors of the latest Ghostface killings from the 2022 film. Sisters Samantha and Tara Carpenter and twins Chad and Mindy Meeks, leave Woodsboro behind and start a new chapter of their lives in the big apple,…
Read moreThe Lion and The Deer is a short film written and directed by Hasa Samudrala. Reviewing movies is tough because art is subjective, and the review is just one person’s opinion: the critic. It is even more difficult when the critic…
Read morePalm Trees and Power Lines is as well-made as it is terrifying. Jamie Dack (Horizon Diner) is in full control of her 2018 short and adapts it with an unassuming velocity that will keep one on the edge of their…
Read moreThese days, it feels difficult to even conceive of a television landscape where Ted Lasso didn't exist. The little-streaming-show-that-could, hailing from Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Joe Kelly, and Brendan Hunt, eventually earned a W in the hearts of countless viewers…
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