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Fantasia 2024 Review: INFINITE SUMMER, A Young Woman Takes A Mighty Trip In Miguel Llansó’s Latest
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A young woman’s transition from high school to university gets hijacked by a global conspiracy – and some wild new drugs – in director Miguel Llansó’s third feature, Infinite Summer, premiering this week at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Mia...
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Dìdi (弟弟) Review: Snapshots of Growing Up in an Early Social Media Age
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While trying to chat up classmate Madi (Mahaela Park) on AIM, Chris (Izaac Wang) skims her MySpace for an “in”. Then, beneath all the Paramore pictures and low-res GIFs is a list of her favorite movies. Oh, A Walk to...
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Prime Video Has What Batman Fans Need in Caped Crusader
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It’s unusual for a show to lead its credits with the executive producers of the program but the names behind Amazon Prime Video’s “Batman: Caped Crusader” justify top billing. For fans of everything animated Dark Knight, Bruce Timm is a...
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Sound And Vision: Denis Villeneuve
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In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: two music videos for Bundock Lanoie by Denis Villeneuve. Denis Villeneuve made a few music videos in his career, the two...
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Exclusive Trailer for Shelly Yo’s Award-Winning Directorial Debut Smoking Tigers
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Premiering at last year’s Tribeca Festival where it picked up Best Screenplay and Best Performance, Shelly Yo’s directorial debut Smoking Tigers is a nuanced coming-of-age tale starring Ji-young Yoo (Expats, Freaky Tales). Now set for a theatrical release beginning in...
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BONE FACE Exclusive: Uncork’d Entertainment Acquire Michael Donovan Horn’s Debut Slasher Thriller
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Coming at you with the first word that Michael Donovan Horn's debut feature film, a slasher/thriller and whodunit titled Bone Face, has been acquired by the folks at Uncork'd Entertainment.   When a masked killer slaughters several campers in a...
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SDCC 2024: Back Bigger and Better
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San Diego Comic-Con is on top of its game again, after the pandemic shut it down and last year’s strikes kept most of the filmmakers and actors away. While efforts to expand the city’s convention center have stalled, the Con...
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The Hard Road: Alex Cox on Crowdfunding, Success, and a Life in Independent Filmmaking
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Alex Cox burst onto the film scene 40 years ago with “Repo Man,” a science-fiction satire starring Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton, with a theme by Iggy Pop and a soundtrack heavy on punk rock. He went on to...
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Fantasia 2024: The Chapel, The Beast Within, FAQ
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Children often make for effective horror (or other genre) protagonists -- after all, they can serve as a representation of our collective innocence, the purity of life that forces both worldly and otherworldly can corrupt or threaten. But they also...
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Callie Hernandez Follows Strange Paths In Exclusive Trailer for Courtney Stephens’ Locarno Premiere Invention
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In March I had the fortune to see a rough cut of Invention, a new film by Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme, The American Sector) that toes the documentary-fiction boundary more nimbly than most: it stars Callie Hernandez as a woman...
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