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Women in Blue is Good at Suspense, Medium at Feminism
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Apple TV’s “Women in Blue” / “Las Azules” is a flawed show. The acting is uneven, with some cast members going full telenovela while others stay in realist drama. Worse, it’s clear that this is a show about women created...
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‘Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In’ Review: An Alternately Thrilling and Dense Action Epic
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Soi Cheang’s bustling, lovingly crafted frames are a breath of fresh air. The post ‘Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In’ Review: An Alternately Thrilling and Dense Action Epic appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Fantasia 2024: Chainsaws Were Singing, Dark Match, Scared Shitless
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Fantasia's not all blood and guts; there are plenty of laughs to be had among the fest's voluminous genre offerings. Horror and comedy, after all, go together like chocolate and peanut butter, or machetes and human flesh. The three films...
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Fantasia Review: The Code Finds Dasha Nekrasova and Peter Vack Pushing Through the Chaos of Modern Life
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Ahead of its world premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival, The Code announced itself with several red flags. Set during the Coronavirus pandemic in 2021 with a synopsis throwing around terms like “cancel culture,” it stars Dasha Nekrasova and Peter...
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Justin Baldoni Wants You to Believe
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On Mondays at the Wayfarer Studios offices, there’s a tradition during meetings in which everyone in attendance has to answer the same question: What’s something that’s bringing you joy that has nothing to do with work or family? This is...
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Telling Their Story: Rich Peppiatt on Kneecap
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The musical biopic genre is so staid, so humdrum, it’s difficult to imagine anyone having a wildly different take on it. In his directorial debut, British-Irish writer/director Rich Peppiatt, however, doesn’t just want to dismantle structures. He wants to obliterate...
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The Future Was Now Warps Through the Seminal Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
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From the way Chris Nashawaty breaks it down in “The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982” (Flatiron Books, $29.99), you can either thank or blame the summer of 1982 for how Hollywood blockbusters are...
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Home Entertainment Guide: July 2024
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10 NEW TO NETFLIX "Bone Tomahawk""The Boy Next Door""Fifty Shades Darker""Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire""The Hateful Eight""The Inspection""Land of Bad""The Teachers' Lounge""Trolls: Band Together""Wicked Little Letters" 18 NEW ON BLU-RAY/DVD "Abigail" If Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett's "Scream" films were the duo...
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Joel Potrykus on Vulcanizadora, the Darkness of Parenthood, and True Independent Filmmaking
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Five years after his surrealist comedy Relaxer, and over a decade since his breakout Buzzard, Joel Potrykus is back with Vulcanizadora. For those familiar with Potrykus’ work, his fifth feature continues the singular, rebellious style he and his film band...
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Amman 2024: Prizes For Moroccan Gangster Drama HOUNDS, Lebanese Q, Jordan – Armenian MY SWEET LAND and Yemeni OUR MALES AND FEMALES
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The closing awards ceremony of the fifth edition of the Amman International Film Festival – Awal Film were held on the 11th of juli at the Royal Film Commission – Jordan, one of the most scenic movie theatres in the...
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