Claudia Restrepo and Derrick DeBlasis Are Star-Crossed Lovers
Life is beautiful and weird. People enter and exit our lives in totally unexpected ways, sometimes staying far longer or shorter than we ever anticipated. We get so fixated on our routines, our futures, on what our lives are “supposed”…
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SXSW 2023: Problemista Highlights The Problems Of Immigration
SYNOPSIS: Alejandro (Torres) is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast (Swinton) becomes…
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American Cherry | Film Threat
Music video and commercial director Marcella Cytrynowicz makes her feature-length debut with American Cherry. The writer-director hones in on the lives of the young and lost, though the characters hope love can save them. She also explores mental illness, generational…
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Rachel Sennott Shines In A Narratively Tricky Seriocomic Drama [SXSW]
Rachel Sennott is ideally cast in the leading role of Ally Pankiw’s “I Used to Be Funny” because this is a character who sort of can’t help but make you laugh, even without trying, even in tremendously difficult situations. Her…
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Willem Dafoe Is Perfectly Unhinged In Surprising Survival Drama
On the surface, the idea of being trapped inside a luxury apartment sounds like a glorious dream. Situated well above the unending bustle of New York City, surrounded by high-end art and top-of-the-line amenities, who could possibly complain about that?…
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Rachel Sennott Like We’ve Never Seen Her Before
Rachel Sennott is the comedic actor of the moment. In 2020, she led the anxiety-inducing, darkly hilarious Shiva Baby which put all the anxieties and fears of an entire generation on her shoulders, and she walked through it with ease.…
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Maddie Ziegler Struggles with Womanhood
The two quotes used to introduce Molly McGlynn’s Bloody Hell perfectly set the tone for the story the filmmaker is trying to tell. By using a powerful passage from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, Bloody Hell sets the stage…
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A Great Start With A Bumpy Landing
Gerard Butler goes from pilot to punishment as his plane lands on a war-torn island but is it worth the watch? Here’s our PLANE review. In the white-knuckle action movie Plane, pilot Brodie Torrance (Gerard Butler) saves his passengers from…
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Is There Anybody Out There?
SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Is There Anybody Out There? is writer-director Ella Glendining’s cinematic journal of her life. Born without hips, a medical disability initialed PFFD (Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency), Glendining is looking to see if there’s anyone who is…
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Megan Stalter Tries to Win Her Girlfriend Back
The SXSW film festival has kind of harnessed a reputation of being the “cool” festival. Taking place in Austin, Texas, a city that’s also earned its respected status in the entertainment industry, it includes comedy, music, and since 1994, film…
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Action Cinema At Its Finest, The Franchise Reaches A New High
From the first frame, “John Wick: Chapter 4” punches so hard you feel it. Keanu Reeves returns as the titular character who is trying to earn his freedom. In order to do that, he has to defeat the High Table, who…
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Late Night with the Devil
SXSW 2023 REVIEW! A struggling late-next talk-show host goes to drastic measures for ratings in Colin and Cameron Cairnes’ horror feature, Late Night with the Devil. It’s October 31, 1977, and Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian) is a syndicated talk show host…
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