NYAFF 2024 Review: Bushido
Much like how Westerns have gradually faded away from modern Hollywood cinema, samurai films have mostly fallen out of favor with modern Japanese ...
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Review: Twisters
There was a time when disaster movies were all the rage. From Apocalypse to basically every Roland Emmerich film in the ’90s, disaster movies were ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Snow in Midsummer
One of the scenarios that can crop up when watching international cinema is that you might not be able to fully understand the ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: The Guest
It’s a bit refreshing to see such a minimalist horror/thriller get featured at a big film festival. After watching a ton of two-hour-long ...
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Review: Longlegs
Whatever your stance is on the recent wave of horror films, it’s apparent that their popularity is soaring. That is certainly the case ...
NYAFF 2024 Review: Granny Prostitutes
I’ll level with all of you right up front: the main reason I wanted to review Granny Prostitutes is because the title of ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Carefree Days
It’s been quite some time since I’ve seen a film that could be wholly categorized as a character study. As what seems to ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: For Alice
As cliché as the “sad dad” story might be in 2024, one can’t deny that it holds dramatic impact. I still remember the ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Pattaya Heat
It’s hard to come to terms with the fact that Hollywood has been influential across the entire globe while other countries struggle to ...
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Review: MaXXXine
I’ve never been the biggest fan of Ti West’s X trilogy. Serving as clear homages to different eras of filmmaking, each entry in his series ...
Review and Interview: Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
I had the immense pleasure of watching Tomás Gómez Bustillo’s debut feature film Chronicles of a Wandering Saint and interviewing him via Zoom ...
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Tribeca Review: The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking The Truth
As I was beginning to finalize my coverage of the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, a random movie popped up that took me completely ...