Past Lives: A Purposeful Meditation on What Might Have Been
Detachment is a difficult filmmaking tool to wield. It can come in the form of tension, like in Hitchcock and Kubrick’s works, that...
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TIFF 2023 Review: Anatomy of a Fall – “Compelling”
Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall marks the second film I’ve seen at the Toronto International Film Festival that has similar...
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Review: Outpost – “I enjoyed this sparky little horror movie.”
I enjoyed this sparky little horror movie. It is compact (less than 90 minutes) and fun. But… I’m a horror fan and my enjoyment was on the...
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US Blu-ray and DVD Releases: No Hard Feelings, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Star Trek Picard, NCIS, Blue Bloods, Black Circle and more
There’s a heavy TV show focus in this week’s releases, including two final seasons and two complementary complete series box sets. Check...
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Review: The Equalizer 3 – “Possibly the most brutal of the entire trilogy.”
Antoine Fuqua’s finale to his Robert McCall trilogy will be very polarising and I can see why some may not like it. Going into part 3, we...
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EIFF 2023 Review: Raging Grace – “A brilliant, Gothic-tinged horror-drama”
Directed by Paris Zarcilla Starring Max Eigenmann, Jaden Paige Boadilla, Leanne Best, David Hayman Joy (Max Eigenmann), is an undocumented...
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Review: Once Upon a Time in Uganda – “The delight and dedication are obvious and contagious”
“The Beatles of exploding heads.” A cursory look at the headlines about Uganda highlights tragedy, violence, ecocide, and the fact...
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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023 – Animated Shorts
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) was much shorter than usual this year – given last autumn we thought we had lost it along...
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US Blu-ray and DVD Releases: The Flash, The Blackening, Kill Shot, The Lincoln Lawyer, City of the Living Dead, A Chucky Four-Pack and more
This week sees a number of cool releases, including some box office hits, a four-pack of Chucky movies making their 4K Ultra HD debuts,...
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FrightFest 2023 Review: To Fire You Come At Last – “A highly effective, atmospheric short”
Directed by Sean Hogan Starring Mark Carlisle, James Swanton, Richard Rowden, Harry Roebuck, Stephen Smith Debuting at this year’s...
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