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SXSW 2024 Review: DEAD MAIL, This Lo-Fi Retro Thriller Excites In Form And Function
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
When a mysterious bloody plea for help ends up in the dead letter office of a rural post office, the inspector on site becomes determined to find its origin, leading him down a deadly road in writer/directors Joe DeBoer and...
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Berlinale 2024 Review: THE DEVIL’S BATH, Gripping Period Drama on the Cusp of Reality and Despair
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala embark on a haunting exploration of 18th-century womanhood, set against the backdrop of societal and religious confines. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Road House
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western. It’s more like a cartoon. While that may sound harsh, some of the Looney Tunes-esque qualities of this reimagining of the 1989 Patrick Swayze classic work in its...
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Netflix Launches Ambitious, Engaging Adaptation of 3 Body Problem
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
If you’ve been missing the mind f*ck properties of HBO’s “Westworld,” Netflix has a show for you. You know that feeling that so many streaming shows sag due to having too few ideas for their episode order? What’s the opposite...
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Stormy
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have been dominated by Doug Liman’s remake of “Road House,” but there was a major event unfolding just next door at almost the same time, a major stop on...
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SXSW 2024 Review: ODDITY, A Creepy Supernatural Thriller From Ireland
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
The world’s creepiest mannequin holds the secret behind a shocking death in Damian McCarthy’s Oddity. Dani (Carolyn Bracken) is struggling to restore an old estate inherited by her busy doctor husband, Ted (Gwilym Lee). When a mysterious and violent death...
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SXSW 2024 Review: A HOUSE IS NOT A DISCO, Burning Down Preconceptions
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Brian J. Smith directs a love letter to Fire Island Pines, the legendary queer beach town in New York. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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WITH LOVE AND A MAJOR ORGAN Trailer: Opposites Attract in Romantic Sci-Fi Comedy
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
One of the most promising indies of the year, With Love and a Major Organ, may be a movie to tug on your heartstrings this spring. Directed by Kim Albright with a script by Julia Lederer, it is a romantic...
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Give a FECK!: Chaz Ebert on Her New Book About Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion and Kindness
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
It’s Time to Give a FECK: Elevating Humanity through Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion, and Kindness, launching on May 7, 2024, is a book by Chaz Ebert, publisher of RogerEbert.com. In it, she combines personal stories, academic research, news events, and practical steps, and warm...
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AN ARMY OF WOMEN
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
For its 31st edition, the SXSW Film & TV Festival will host nine days of screenings from March 8-16, 2024. Check out Chris Reed’s An Army of Women movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Sexual assault...
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