Oscar Wild!
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“If Will Smith wins, he’s going to have the speech that people talk about for years.”   -Joe Jarosz, February 10, 2022 We’ve done this before, people! The bullpen of writers…

Oscars Preview 2025! Scene-Stealers Talk the 96th Annual Academy Awards
Tasty Danish
Posted 2 weeks ago

[Rating: Solid Rock Fist Up] In Theaters and VOD on February 21 If America can repackage (Den of Thieves) or reimagine (The Town) Heat every couple of years, why can’t…

No Need to Whisper About ‘The Quiet Ones’
Stop! Or Dog Will Bark!
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Dog-Man hybrid takes names and sniffs butts. And he's all out of butts.

“Dog Man” is SUPA Cute
Makes Cents
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The horrors of a reform school are seen through the eyes of two young men.

Lots of Cents in “Nickel Boys”
Damned-Nation
Posted 2 months ago

A reverse 'Lord of the Flies' with 'The VVitch' vibes, 'The Damned' explores the moral cancers that humanity lets fester and blossom in both life and death.

God Bless “The Damned”
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‘French Exit’ Will Leave You Looking For the Door

by Warren Cantrell February 26, 2021 Print Reviews

‘French Exit’ is less of a film and more of a collage of character quirks mashed together into something resembling a coherent narrative.

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‘The Father’ Demands Respect, and Deserves It

by Warren Cantrell February 26, 2021 Print Reviews

‘The Father’ is superb, and gives a voice and a face to an affliction that is too often limited to those suffering on the periphery of it.

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Serj Tankian Doc ‘Truth to Power’ Fails To Connect Its Threads

by Nick Spacek February 22, 2021 Print Reviews

Writer/director Garin Hovannisian’s Truth to Power, a new documentary on System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian, will likely entrance fans of the band looking to get an in-depth tale of the politically-active singer and musician, but anyone else in search of a focused tale will find the film desperately lacking.

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‘Minari’ is an American Dream Come True

by Christian Ramos February 20, 2021 Print Reviews

‘Minari’ is an instant American Classic about the American Dream to a Korean family finding themselves cultivating a farm in rural Arkansas.

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‘Nomadland’ Wanders With Purpose, Capturing the Soul of 21st Century America On the Way

by Warren Cantrell February 19, 2021 Print Reviews

‘Nomadland’ is a stunning character study incorporating meditations on aging, legacy, industrialization, and the vanishing American middle class.

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Adam Egypt Mortimer’s ‘Archenemy’ A Welcome New Swerve on the Superhero Genre

by Nick Spacek February 16, 2021 Blu-ray/DVD Reviews

The latest film from Adam Egypt Mortimer, ‘Archenemy’ (out February 16 on DVD and Blu-ray from RLJE Films), sees the writer/director once again applying his independent lens to a new genre.

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Interview: ‘A Ghost Waits’ writer/director Adam Stovall & star Macleod Andrews

by Nick Spacek February 16, 2021 Blogs

The debut feature from writer/director Adam Stovall, ‘A Ghost Waits,’ now streaming via Arrow, follows on the heels of last year’s acquisition by the venerable genre company of another left-of-center, oddly quirky, black and white fun take on genre cinema, The Lake Michigan Monster.

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Neil Marshall’s ‘The Reckoning’ is a Wreck

by Warren Cantrell February 5, 2021 Print Reviews

This distasteful witch trial horror offering from Neil Marshall has a heavy-handed tone, clunky dialogue, and a refusal to concede to the realities of basic human physiology.

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The 12 Best Films Of 2020

by Jonah Desneux January 29, 2021 Blogs

2020 was a historically terrible but that didn’t stop great films from being released. This list looks at the best films and hidden gems of last year.

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Disturbing Twist Ruins ‘The Night’

by Jonah Desneux January 29, 2021 Print Reviews

‘The Night’ starts strong following the story of a married couple with many issues trapped inside a haunted hotel. Kourosh Ahari sets up his film well, but things take a turn for the worse with a complicated direction in the second half.

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Fly Over ‘Savage State’ and Don’t Look Back

by Warren Cantrell January 29, 2021 Print Reviews

‘Savage State’ is narratively vacant, historically nonsensical, and emotionally barren. Skip it.

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Bold Netflix Drama ‘The White Tiger’ Has Teeth

by Warren Cantrell January 21, 2021 Print Reviews

A gritty meditation on class, globalization, family, and destiny, ‘The White Tiger’ is the story of one man’s struggle with his destiny.

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Decidedly non-PG ‘Psycho Goreman’ still fun, full of heart

by Nick Spacek January 18, 2021 Print Reviews

Were it not for the fact that it’s drenched in violence, blood, and assorted alien fluids, the heart of ‘Psycho Goreman’ makes it charming enough to watch with your kids.

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‘Rock Camp’ doc more like an extended infomercial

by Nick Spacek January 14, 2021 Print Reviews

It’s great to see that the rockers featured in the documentary really seem to enjoy getting to interact with fans on this level, where they’re kinda / sorta peers, but even those interviews come across more as advertising fodder for the camp, rather than digging deeply into what it means for them personally.

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‘Promising Young Woman’ More Than Lives Up to Its Name

by Warren Cantrell December 23, 2020 Print Reviews

‘Promising Young Woman’ is an exploration of sexual assault and accountability in a post-#MeToo era aware of the present yet largely foggy on the past.

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