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SXSW 2025 Review: NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE, Matt & Jay Go Back to the Future!
by admin|2 months ago|Screen Anarchy
A pair of lovable losers come up with a series of ridiculous schemes to get their band a gig at Toronto’s legendary nightclub, The Rivoli in Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol’s Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie. A feature...
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CONTROL FREAK Review: Kelly Marie Tran Elevates Psychological Horror
by admin|2 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Eight years ago, toxic fandom of the Star Wars kind almost derailed Kelly Marie Tran’s career.   And while that rabid fan response led to a painfully reduced role in the last big-screen Star Wars entry, The Rise of Skywalker, Tran’s...
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Mamoru Oshii Expresses Hopes for Ghost in the Shell 3
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
Two decades have been kind to Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, the only animated feature to debut in competition at Cannes and recent recipient of a 20th-anniversary 4K restoration. But Mamoru Oshii isn’t done with his opus, having recently stated,...
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SXSW 2025 Review: THE SURRENDER, A Mother Attempts to Save Her Husband From Death Through Black Magic
by admin|2 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Megan returns home after a long time away to support her mother, Barbara, as her father enters his dying days in writer/director Julia Max’s black magic horror film, The Surrender. Barbara’s (Kate Burton) husband has been ill for a very...
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SXSW 2025 Review: FUCKTOYS, A Filth-filled Odyssey Though A Punk Rock Wonderland
by admin|2 months ago|Screen Anarchy
A sometime sex worker longs for love in director/writer/star Annapurna Sriram’s chaotic debut feature film, Fucktoys. We meet AP (Sriram) mid-tarot reading, sitting in the middle of a swamp, listening to the wisdom of a psychic played by iconic rapper,...
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SXSW Film Festival 2025: Are We Good?, I’m Carl Lewis!, Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
by admin|2 months ago|Roger Ebert
On three profile docs from SXSW on Marc Maron, Carl Lewis, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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SXSW Film Festival 2025: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Fantasy Life, Brother Verses Brother
by admin|2 months ago|Roger Ebert
Three of the more purely enjoyable films of this year's SXSW are highlighted.
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THE FIFTH SHOT OF LA JETÉE
by admin|2 months ago|Hammer to Nail
(The Museum of Moving Image’s First Look Festival runs March 12-16. Chrck out Jonathan Marlow’s movie review of The Fifth Shot of La Jetée. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “We’re entertaining ghosts now.” One year to...
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I’M CARL LEWIS!
by admin|2 months ago|Hammer to Nail
(The 2025 SXSW Film & TV conference, runs March 7-15, and HtN has you covered with great movie reviews like Chris Reed’s look at the doc I’m Carl Lewis. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The...
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7 Films To Watch at MoMI’s First Look ’25
by admin|2 months ago|Hammer to Nail
The Museum of Moving Image’s First Look Festival returns for its 12th edition. Showcasing some of this year’s exciting new voices in American and international cinema, this year’s edition will introduce New York audiences to eclectic, innovative works from around...
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