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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 : 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…

Film Review: No Hustle Needed to Enjoy “Hustle”

There’s a hefty linage of classic basketball films out there in the world. Hoosiers, Blue Chips, White Men Can’t Jump, He Got Game; these films are just a small sample of the myriad of hoop-centric films out there. By now, it’s hard to even fathom a new entry into any genre would be worthy of…

Film Review: Jump on the Emotional Rollercoaster That is, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert–better known as The Daniels or just Daniels when their credited work appears made a bit of a splash in the film world when their 2016 feature length debut, Swiss Army Man, hit cinemas. Most people remember or even only heard about Swiss Army Man as the movie where Daniel Radcliffe…

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,…

Film Review- Exploring Charted Ground with “Uncharted”

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; video games will be the next source to overtake the comic book blockbuster film slate. Adapting video games to the big screen has had its problems. But with the recent positive reception to the Sonic the Hedgehog film and the brilliant final product of Werewolves Within,…

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…