Racist Trees | Film Threat
With overt ties to slavery, Confederate statues are an easy target for removal as America slowly undergoes its institutional racial reckoning. Directors Sara Newens and Mina T. Son’s documentary Racist Trees attempts to look at something far more obscure but no less…
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Chad Is Still the Same
Created by Aaron B. Koontz and Cameron Burns, 2019’s Scare Package failed to gain the traction that other Shudder exclusive releases usually get. The main reason for that is that Scare Package is an anthology made by horror fans and…
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Smith’s Heartfelt Debut Can’t Overcome Its Hurdles
Home Movie Reviews Freedom’s Path Review: Smith’s Heartfelt Debut Can't Overcome Its Hurdles [SDIFF] Freedom’s Path has some hurdles that it just can’t overcome from a narrative standpoint despite its heartwarming undertones. RJ Cyler and Gerran Howell in Freedom's Path…
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The Best Plane Movie You’ll See This Month
PLANE is a great date movie option that you should absolutely consider if you’re weighing your options. In the white-knuckle action movie PLANE, pilot Brodie Torrance (Gerard Butler) saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on…
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Review: A Wonderful Gift
We live in a fast-paced world. Distractions around every corner, followed closely by judgments, and opinions, which naturally leads to division. Social media does its best to make you feel less than others, to make sure you know that you…
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Zoe Saldaña Discovers The Importance Of Family Under The Florentine Sun
Based on a memoir by Tembi Locke, who developed the miniseries with her sister Attica Locke (“When They See Us”), “From Scratch” is a heartfelt, if sometimes overlong, story of two very different families becoming one through love and loss.…
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A Shot in the Arm
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! When the pandemic lockdown occurred in 2020, unbeknownst to all of us, we were on the cusp of a change in society, a division of thinking that no one could have predicted. COVID-19…
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John Krasinski Can’t Run From Tepid Action Thriller
Home TV Reviews 'Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan' Season 3 Review: John Krasinski Can't Run From This Tepid Action Thriller If you have to choose between action series centered around characters named Jack, your best bet is to go with Reacher…
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Saunders’ Timely Feature Debut Is Heartfelt & Humorous
Home Movie Reviews Dotty & Soul Review: Saunders' Timely Feature Debut Is Heartfelt & Humorous [SDIFF] It’s clichéd and predictable, but Dotty & Soul is sincere in showing how people can learn from past mistakes when given time to put…
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Race2Dinner Documentary Only Scratches the Surface [Mill Valley FF]
Eight upper-middle-class, suburban white women arrive at a dinner party in the opening moments of Patty Ivins Specht’s “Deconstructing Karen.” Hosted by activist Regina Jackson and former Colorado congressional candidate Saira Rao, through their start-up Race2Dinner, the women are immediately…
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A Testament to the Endurance of Practical Effects
If you never had the chance to watch Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s The Dark Crystal, the first thing you’ll probably notice is how good the movie looks. Despite being initially released in 1982, The Dark Crystal still looks better…
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Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Review
This review was originally part of our 2022 Venice Film Festival coverage. In the past 70 years, Alejandro G. Iñárritu is the only director to win the Best Director Oscar in back-to-back years (for Birdman and then The Revenant). That…
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