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Rotterdam 2024 Review: ROME: TALES FROM THE BLOCK, A Slight Alien Invasion Satire
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
La Guerra Del Tiburtino III has as its international title Rome: Tales From the Block, which shows you how much this film wears its influences on its sleeve. From the opening segment, in which an alien creature leaves a meteor...
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Rotterdam 2024 Review: KING BABY Is A Royal Triumph
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
King Baby, by directors Kit Redstone and Arran Shearing, could've gone wrong in so many ways. The film is a send-up of masculine power plays, toxic machismo and the thin veneer of social niceties that hide volcanic violence waiting to...
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SXSW 2024: Table of Contents
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
BRIAN TALLERICO"The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem""Arcadian""Azrael""Babes""Cheech & Chong's Last Movie""Clemente""Dandelion""Desert Road""Dickweed""The Fall Guy""Gasoline Rainbow""Grand Theft Hamlet""The Hobby""I Don't Understand You""I Love You Forever""Immaculate""Kryptic""Monkey Man""My Dead Friend Zoe""A Nice Indian Boy""Oddity""Omni Loop""Resynator""Road House""Roleplay""Secret Mall Apartment""She Looks Like Me""Stormy""Things Will Be Different""This is a Movie...
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SXSW 2024: Omni Loop, Desert Road, Things Will Be Different
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
I’ve had several conversations recently with people regarding how time has gotten weird since the pandemic. Maybe it’s because we were locked inside for so long, but some events of the last four years feel like they took place yesterday...
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SAINT OMER Blu-ray Review: The Divide Between Personhood and Motherhood
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
When it comes to dismantling discrimination, whether it be by race, gender, or other marginalized identity. does the law follow society, or society follow the law? While the public can often push for changes they want in society to be...
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SXSW 2024: Clemente, Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie, This is a Movie About the Black Keys
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
Bio-docs have become a staple of the film festival circuit, an easy way to get butts in seats by attracting fans of the subjects on the screen. To be honest, this genre of non-fiction filmmaking has also become glutted with...
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The Greatest Hits
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
If you’re a genre nostalgic who’s looking for a romantic comedy that could’ve been made in the ‘90s or early aughts, and that features all of the comforting types (including the widowed protagonist, the dreamy lost love, the sassy, truth-telling...
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SXSW 2024 Review: DORY PREVIN: ON MY WAY TO WHERE, Waking Up, Slowly
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Julia Greenberg and Dianna Dilworth direct a music-doc about a singular singer and songwriter who needed to wake up to her own talent. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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SXSW 2024: Whatever It Takes, Resynator, The Hobby
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
The documentary sections at SXSW were very strong this year with standouts like “Roleplay,” “Grand Theft Hamlet,” and “Gasoline Rainbow,” which I expect will all find loyal fans when they leave the fest circuit. However, the documentary that could make...
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The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
There has been a growing subgenre of non-fiction films that I jokingly call “Internet Bad” movies. The worst of these feel like shallow fearmongering, playing up the fears of older viewers like a modern “Reefer Madness.” Part of the problem...
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