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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…

Film Review: The Tender Bar is Khao

Getting that warm, fuzzy, feel-good story about someone climbing out of a rough past they thought they would be stuck in forever– it’s what a lot of people want from a film going experience. Even though, you’re aware from the start that your protagonist is going to win out in the end, you’re in it…

New York Film Festival : Review- The Slippery Slope of “Red Rocket”

Though he’s been making films for close to 20 years (and with co-writer Chris Bergoch for the last 8), it’s only in the past few years that Sean Baker has been making waves with the general public. Following the success of The Florida Project, Baker is back with another slice of the less explored factions of…

New York Film Festival : Review- The Curious Case of “Titane”

What have you heard about Titane, so far? What do you know about Julia Ducournau and her previous (debut) film, Raw? It should be said for any film; go in as blindly as you can. The less you know, the better. In preparation to write this review, I see that that IMDB description gives away…