The Room and I I’m no stranger to Tommy Wiseau’s The Room. Like many people, I first became aware of its existence when caught in the orbit of The Disaster Artist in 2017. This was the first…
Filmmaking
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Streaming DocumentariesStreaming Reviews
‘Sr.’: Father and Son Share the Spotlight
by Nick Kushby Nick KushThere must be some kind of small glitch in the Netflix algorithm. In the span of a few weeks, the streamer has released two black-and-white documentaries about a very famous person interviewing someone with Parkinson’s…
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DramaReviews
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: ‘Ahed’s Knee’
by Sean Coatesby Sean CoatesNadav Lapid’s Synonyms caused quite a stir when it unexpectedly took out the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2019. The film loosely based on Lapid’s own life about an Israeli man who flees…
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DocumentaryReviews
Melbourne International Film Festival 2021 Review: ‘Hopper/Welles’
by Sean Coatesby Sean CoatesIt was November of 1970. Dennis Hopper, hot off the success of his counterculture masterpiece Easy Rider and deep into post-production of his second feature, The Last Movie travels from Taos, New Mexico to Los Angeles…
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Few films capture the theatrical experience as lovingly as Cinema Paradiso. The 1988 Italian film won the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award and serves as one of the most beautiful love letters to cinema…
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ComedyReviews
Jean Dujardin Stars as a Jacket Enthusiast Turned Serial Killer in ‘Deerskin’
by Nick Kushby Nick KushI agonized over the title of this article for some time. (SEO is tough, ya’ll.) But sometimes, when a movie is as ridiculous as Deerskin, being as plain as possible can do wonders. It paints…
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John Wick is the best franchise in terms of producing higher quality sequels. There, I said it — feel free to disagree, but know that you are wrong. The Keanu Reeves franchise has gotten better…
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When a young man drops out of college to care for his shut-in mother he too finds himself increasingly insulated from the outside world, something which conflicts with his growing forays into amateur astronomy. Credits…
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Another Bloody Movie PodcastPodcasts
Film Fiasco – ‘The Book of Henry’ (Another Bloody Movie Podcast)
by Sean Coatesby Sean CoatesPoor Colin Trevorrow. You really have to feel sorry for the guy. No matter what he does in future, he’ll always be remembered as either one of two things; The filmmaker that got famously fired…
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Reviews
Anna Bamberger on ‘Just Within Reach’ and Her First Directorial Experience
by Nick Kushby Nick KushAnyone that has ever worked on a film set knows that it can be quite a challenge, and Anna Bamberger became aware of this idea firsthand as she worked on the new film Just Within Reach…
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Steven Soderbergh appears to have put his self-imposed retirement in the rearview mirror with the creation of his production studio Fingerprint Releasing, distributing his second film into theaters in a mere eight-month span. His latest…
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It’s safe to say that Alex Garland’s Annihilation is the most analyzed film of 2018. Well, I guess that mantle belongs to Black Panther in actuality, but Annihilation has been at the center of serious movie discussion since…
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One of Hollywood’s favorite concepts is making a shared cinematic universe. There are a few examples of this working, the most popular being the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But now, studios are trying to do this…
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Wes Anderson has a solid record of movies such as Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel, which actually won a few Academy Awards. While he does get praise from many, there are others who…
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Hollywood has always had a fascination with the process of making films, highlighting what it can do to the human psyche and all the absurdity that goes into making a celebrated work of art. Movies…
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The beauty of the short film is in its capability to deliver profound statements of truth in bite-sized time increments. Director/writer Sean Meehan explores the concept of a business built upon paid rehearsals of difficult…
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Reviews
Director Marc Meyers Discusses ‘My Friend Dahmer’ and His Growth as a Filmmaker
by Nick Kushby Nick KushAfter premiering early this year at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, My Friend Dahmer has since experienced critical success, including an overwhelmingly positive review from yours truly. Director Marc Meyers has a lot to do with…
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