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Review: Is “Prey” The Predator Follow Up You’ve Been Waiting For?

The original Predator is an undeniable classic. It holds court with a handful of genre films that when broken down, are the blueprints for great film making. Robocop, Child’s Play, and Predator are all great examples. Even if you’ve seen them hundreds of times and know the twists and turns, they are so brilliantly put…

Review: The Duller Edge of “Both Sides of the Blade”

Since bursting onto the scene with her debut feature, Chocolat (1988), Claire Denis has largely been exploring the ins and outs of close knit relationships. Teaming up with Juliette Binoche for their third consecutive production together, Denis this time around delves into the complications of a relationship in the world of Covid-19. The events that…

Tribeca Festival Review: There’s No Need to Answer “The Black Phone”

When director Scott Derrickson and co-writer C. Robert Cargill unleashed Sinister onto the world in 2012, they were shot into a new legendary status in the horror community. While the two teamed up for more releases from other horror films to the first Doctor Strange movie, they find themselves back in that Sinister aura for…

Tribeca Festival / Review : Everyone Will Love “Somewhere in Queens”

Take a seat if you’re not already sitting down. What I’m about to say might shock many of you. I never really cared about Everybody Loves Raymond. I have no personal distaste for the show itself, or Ray Romano…it was just never my kind of thing. Naturally, I have no real connection to Romano or…

Tribeca Festival Review: “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song”

While a definitive list doesn’t exist you’d be hard-pressed to find a ranking of the most covered songs of all time that does not include Leonard Cohen’s, Hallelujah. It’s become an instant classic to many music fans. Many who would call it their favorite song, even if they’ve never heard the original Cohen recording. Now,…

Film Review: “Crimes of the Future” is a Return to Form for David Cronenberg

Though the style of his work has varied through-out the years, the lasting memory of David Cronenberg’s work for many has always been met with one very specific descriptor; body horror. As he may very well be the king of the body horror genre, his last six films– while maintaining an overall sense of Cronenbergian…

Film Review: I’d Rather Die in an Ambulance Than Watch, “Ambulance”

Let’s not beat around the bush…no one ever expects high art from a Michael Bay film. The man himself has even admitted that he makes films for a very specific demographic that isn’t looking for deep meaning and metaphors. But Michael Bay doesn’t write anything he has directed. Based on a 2005 Danish film that…

Film Review: The Oddly Fresh Take on Dating from “Fresh”

Does anybody like the dating scene? Whether or not people are willing to admit it, the entire venture is not just a crap shoot for everyone–but a whole distinct world of disappointment and woe for women. online pharmacy estrace over the counter with best prices today in the USA Unwanted advances, staggeringly self centered cads,…

Sundance Film Festival Review- The blunt end of “Sharp Stick”

Around 5 minutes into Sharp Stick 26 year old Sarah Jo (Kristine Froseth) goes to put a “pre-eviction” note on the door of a tenant her mother is about to evict from the apartment complex they run. Or, so it seems it is an apartment complex. They refer to him as the tenant in 1-A, but…

Sundance Film Festival Review- Searching Intimacy with, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.”

A favorite talking point of mine is that too many people confuse lust for love. Good Luck To You, Leo Grande (which from this point further will be mentioned simple as Good Luck… for brevities sake) in no way connects to this idea. But, in a similar vein, it looks at intimacy in a way that breaks it…

Sundance Film Festival Review – Does “Dual” Duel Itself?

Ask me what my favorite films are and eventually- when I want to throw in some more modern choices – I’ll bring up Duncan Jones’s 2009 debut, Moon. With more than one layer to it, I always try to boil it down the philosophical journey of Moon into a signal sentence; “would you get along…