Category: Movie Reviews
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‘Showing Up’ Review: A Realistic Depicting of the Struggling Artist (New York Film Festival 2022)
Cinema has a rich history of romanticizing the artist, from extravagant biopics to heavy-handed dramas and everything in between. The artist and his struggles have always felt very otherworldly and ethereal. Sometimes though, the artist doesn’t have some existential nightmare of trying to make it as an artist; the actual struggle they face is whether…
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‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Shallow Social Class Satire (New York Film Festival 2022)
Swedish director Ruben Östlund always has a keen sensibility when it comes to capturing absurdism in horrific or intense circumstances. Much like in Force Majeure and The Square, he understands and knows how to play up the comedic moments roped around the dire or ridiculous events our leads might be in. In the case of…
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‘A Couple’ Review: An Uninspired Visual Monologue (New York Film Festival 2022)
Film is a visual medium. As a result, artists tend to use all the elements in film to craft something the other six forms of art can’t do. Elements such as shot composition, pacing in editing, creating a mood or a tone, production and costume design, sound design, and so on. All these elements converge…
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‘LIVING WITH CHUCKY’ Review: A Tender Killer Doll Family Reunion (Fantastic Fest 2022)
The Chucky franchise has been a fascinating one to observe over the past 30 years. The perseverance of this horror icon through the decades and the evolving nature of these films is truly something stunning to behold. So it’s no wonder that Kyra Elise Gardener’s Living With Chucky is a perfect encapsulation of what it’s…
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‘KING ON SCREEN’ REVIEW: A Phantasmagoric Love Letter To The King (Fantastic Fest 2022)
In the pantheon of living authors working right now, no one comes even remotely close to Stephen King in terms of his works being adapted to the big screen, and this new documentary by Daphné Baiwir really drives home why Stephen King’s works are so moldable and fitting for film and television. ‘King on Screen’…
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‘A Life on the Farm’ Review: An Ode to the Artist in All of Us (Fantastic Fest 2022)
Art can be therapeutic. It can save someone’s soul and be a gateway to cleansing the spirit. Art can transform and mold you. On a small farm in Somerset, it was everything to Charles Carson. A Life on the Farm recounts the discovery of this old videotape owned by filmmaker Oscar Harding’s grandfather, which contains…
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‘Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle’ Review: A PSA-Laden Romantic Thriller (Fantastic Fest 2022)
In the plethora of modern so-bad-it’s-good films, few have seen the massive success and notoriety as James Nguyen’s phenomenal Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010). A movie filled with all the cheesy romance and awful apocalyptic terror you can fathom, the earnestness and naivete artistry employed by Nguyen makes it forever enigmatic to what a cult…
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‘Unidentified Objects’ Review: A Surrealist Character Space Journey (Fantastic Fest 2022)
“Do you ever wake up from a dream and it’s like you’re still dreaming?” That question suffused Colombian filmmaker Juan Felipe Zuleta’s debut feature, Unidentified Objects. It haunts the viewer into a false sense of security, questioning their own experiences and purpose on this earth. Unidentified Objects stars Peter Hobbes (Matthew August Jeffers) and Sarah…
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‘Pinocchio’ Review: A Sturdy Remake with Rotten 2022 Hollywood Business Practices
It’s been a recent practice over the last decade or so for Disney, starting with Cinderella (2015), to remake their beloved animated classics into live action. So it was purely inevitable they’d get to the very early works as an animation studio, and there hasn’t been one that screams classic Disney than this new Pinocchio remake…
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‘Charcoal’ Review (TIFF 2022): A Farcical Art House Film
There’s a point very early on in writer-director Carolina Markowicz’s debut film Charcoal where I found myself baffled by how crass and horribly earnest the new nurse (Aline Marta Maia) who came by to treat Irene’s (Maeve Jinkings) father was. Irene was innocently explaining how she hoped he could get better and the nurse just…
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