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Friday One Sheet: DEAD MAIL
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Delightfully low-fi and textured, the key art for Joe DeBoer's and Kyle McConaghy's Dead Mail not only is a great reflection of the analog style of the film, but also offers a significant amount of information about the plot. The...
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MotelX 2024: ODDITY And THE SUBSTANCE Among Award Winners
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MotelX has wrapped up this year's edition of the festival. As per usual, the festival had a program packed with local and international talent. In that regard everyone is a winner but when it comes to to the awards handed...
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REPO MAN 4K Review: This Criterion Release Rocks
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For those who like a good dose of honesty and chaos, the 1984 punk cult classic debut from Alex Cox (Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell), Repo Man is out in a 4K/Blu-ray combo. The release is beautiful; from the...
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ALL SHALL BE WELL Review: Quiet But Powerful Drama About Family and Other Troubles
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An older lesbian couple, Angie (Patra Au Ga Man) and Pat (Maggie Li Lin Lin) have been together for over three decades and have shared a lovely home in Hong Kong for much of that time. As they hold a...
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Toronto 2024: RIFF RAFF, Riffs on Parenting, The Holidays, And THE REF
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The foul mouthed holiday film is now, more or less, a cinema tradition.   From Terry Zwigoff’s Bad Santa to National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation to Harold Ramis’s The Ice Harvest, there are plenty of these anti-Christmas yet still kinda Christmas...
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THE SHADE Exclusive Clip: Supernatural Horror in Theaters Tomorrow
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Following the loss of his father, a grieving twenty-year-old struggles to hold his family together as an unspeakable darkness plagues his older brother. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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IN THE SUMMERS Review: A Man and His Daughters
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It’s not being provocative — at least not intentionally — to suggest families, biological and otherwise, can seriously f*ck you up. Parents can fail their children. Children can fail their parents. Whether realistic or the opposite, expectations in either direction...
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SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY Review: Deeply Moving Portrait of the Actor Behind the Superhero
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For Gen X’ers and Millennials, Superman in live-action form started and ended with Christopher Reeve. Across four films and a decade (1978-1987), Reeve embodied Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s Depression-era, comic-book creation, a secular savior, a super-powered alien from a...
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A DIFFERENT MAN Review: Unmoored Wish Fulfillment As Horror
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Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson, and Renate Reinsve star in director Aaron Schimberg's newest film. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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TRANSFORMERS ONE Review: Workers Rights, Class Struggle, Robot Revolution
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Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry lead the voice cast for director Josh Cooley's animated prequel. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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