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YOUNG WOMAN AND THE SEA Review: Daisy Ridley Vs. the Patriarchy
by admin|3 weeks ago|Screen Anarchy
At every step in Joachim Rønning’s (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Kon-Tiki) gripping old-school adaptation of Glenn Stout’s non-fiction book, Young Woman and the Sea, Daisy Ridley’s based-on-real-life Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle faces...
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Exclusive Restoration Trailer for Belarusian Folk-Horror for The Savage Hunt of King Stakh
by admin|3 weeks ago|The Film Stage
Summer time is approaching, which means it is, of course, Belarusian folk-horror season. As part of Deaf Crocodile Films’ new collaboration with DiabolikDVD, the largest independent online distributor of specialized home video releases, their first release will be Valeri Rubinchik’s ultra-rare...
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Far, Far Away: How to Get People Going to Movies Again
by admin|3 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
What's broken in moviegoing? And how can it be fixed? Why do I ask?  Surprise: It's not because of the box office performance of "Furiosa: A Mad Max Tale" and "The Garfield Movie" over the 2024 Memorial Day weekend.  Sure, it was the worst such...
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A Conversation with Chris Wilcha (FLIPSIDE)
by admin|3 weeks ago|Hammer to Nail
Filmmaker Chris Wilcha has long struggled with the feeling that his most creative days are behind him, stuck as he is in the world of commercial work-for-hire. But a funny thing happened along the way towards middle-aged professional dissatisfaction: the...
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Young Woman and the Sea
by admin|3 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb in “Young Woman and the Sea.”   Ridley stars in this compelling biographical drama as Trudy Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Ederle accomplished this...
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Ren Faire
by admin|3 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between mocking and celebrating its incredibly unique subjects. I told a friend just now that I was reviewing a docuseries about a “Succession”-esque power struggle at a Renaissance fair,...
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What You Wish For
by admin|3 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse. At this moment, it weighs on this reviewer particularly heavily. “What You Wish For,” a picture written and directed by Nicholas Tomnay and starring Nick Stahl, is one...
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Robot Dreams
by admin|3 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination, a movie that uses the form of animated cinema to tell a story in a way that couldn’t be possible in any other medium. Without a word of...
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In a Violent Nature
by admin|3 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
The most fascinating thing about Chris Nash's hyperviolent slasher experiment "In a Violent Nature" is that it's not scary. At least, not in the way that the "Friday the 13th"-esque splatter flicks he's clearly riffing on used to be. There are...
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Ezra
by admin|3 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at the Florida Film Festival; one of the films, "Hellbent on Boogie," directed by Vito Trupiano, was about an autistic teenager (Alyx Ruibal) being homeschooled by her mother and...
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