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“REMAINING NATIVE” SOUTH BY SOUTH WEST REVIEW: A POWERFUL DOC WHERE NATIVE PAST AND FUTURE LEAVES AN EVERLASTING FOOTPRINT
Native and Indigenous storytelling is far from something new and yet if you look towards Hollywood and the film industry as a whole you’d spend more time trying to search things out than instead of being handed them. There are…
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CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD REVIEW: FRENDO THE KILLER CLOWN HAS ENOUGH TRICKS UP HIS SLEEVE TO MAKE THIS THE BEST BREAKOUT HIT OF THE YEAR
Sometimes things are exactly like they appear. Small town farm America, creepy empty atmosphere…enter the horny drunk teenagers. It’s 1991 in Kettle Springs, a middle America city shoved in the middle of a fly over state. Everything seems quie (although…
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SXSW BREAKDOWN REVIEWS: “THE THREESOME” “MERMAID” “SLANTED” “AMERICAN SWEATSHOP”
Mermaids, threesomes, proms and Lili Reinhart. It sounds like the plot to an episode of Riverdale, but in fact is just four separate scenarios from four films that premiered at this years South by South West film Festival. A festival…
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“GOOD BOY” SOUTH BY SOUTH WEST REVIEW: THE MOST PHOTOGENIC DOG LEADS A HAUNTED HOUSE HORROR THAT IS A TESTAMENT TO DEDICATED FILMMAKERS
For anyone who is or has ever been a dog owner one of the biggest dreams is to be able to communicate with your pet. If not for just a day, to finally get to talk to your dog and…
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THE MONKEY REVIEW: OSGOOD PERKINS GOES BLOODY BANANAS IN A MANIACAL TALE OF FATHERHOOD
Tell me if you have heard this one before. A father walks into a pawn shop with a wind up monkey. The father claims the monkey is not safe for his children. The pawn shop owner says “I have no…
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PRESENCE REVIEW: STEVEN SODERBERGH BECOMES A GHOST IN A HEARTBREAKING FAMILY DRAMA
Whatever you do, do not look at the camera. It is a rule that every actor knows or at least should know. The breaking of the fourth wall as kitschy as it may be for some big hollywood studio films…
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OH, HI! SUNDANCE REVIEW: A HYSTERICAL MOLLY GORDON FIGHTS THE SITUATIONSHIP BUT THE FILM LOSES THE BATTLE
People may say relationships are all about honesty, but let’s be real in the modern dating world, all a relationship ends up being is two people trying to figure out what the actual hell the other person really thinks of…
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SUKKWAN ISLAND SUNDANCE REVIEW: AN ENDURANCE TEST OF SURVIVAL FINDS ITSELF AT AN EGREGIOUS ENDING
There are certain films that you just feel are quite unmemorable. They aren’t dreadful but they leave no lasting memory and they are almost forget by the time you get home from the theater. And then there are films that…
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TWINLESS SUNDANCE REVIEW: DYLAN O’ BRIEN GIVES A CAREER BEST IN A HYSTERICAL & DECEITFUL “BROMANCE” OF GRIEF
A twin never gets to be their own person. It sounds blunt but ask any twin (this critic is not one) and most will tell you the same thing. This lifelong connection to another person may not be the way…
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OMAHA SUNDANCE REVIEW: A TENDER HEARTBREAK OF PARENTAL PROTECTION AND DESTRUCTION
There can sometimes be a genuine fear that the Sundance Film Festival has lost its independent roots. While the worries may be valid it seems that every year this comes into conversation and every year there is at least a…
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