I’m going to let you in on a little secret—I’m scared of the internet. I’m scared of this review and the fact that it’s going to have my name on it. And I’m both doubly scared of the stuff that I have posted which is probably way too personal to be public. And also, and […]
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Tom Hanks’ Playtone production company and CNN take us through the decades of North American film. They do it with the new docuseries The Movies. It breaks up movie history into six episodes. These episodes tackled The Golden Age, The Sixties, The Seventies, The Eighties, The Nineties, and The 2000s to Today. Each installment runs […]
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John David Washington stars in Beckett as the titular American who, at one point in his vacation, finds himself in rural Greek hospital. He eventually ends up in a police station where a local cop consoles him for his loss. That’s after he uses their phone to call Bob, his girlfriend April’s (Alicia Vikander) father. […]
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At what point does the price of life become worth the cost of living? The ethics of what life is worth are at the forefront here with Seobok and while it borrows liberally from a myriad of science-fiction and comic books that came before it, there’s no denying it’s an exceptionally well executed affair. Min […]
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In the world of monster budget, tentpole, comic book filmmaking, there are very few directors that are allowed or possess the uncompromising nature that is the tour de force known as James Gunn. Gunn is basically given carte blanche to recreate The Suicide Squad in his own image after the disappointing David Ayer version of the […]
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On Tiong Bahru Social Club, director Tan Bee Thiam blocks many scenes with symmetry, which sparked a thought that is profound to me, that symmetry, as well as other attempts at aesthetic, as an inherent social critique. This visual form of critique, theoretically, makes sense with this subject. The characters here are ‘happiness agents,’ receiving […]
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Being honest upfront, regardless of how good Seth A. Smith’s latest film Tin Can is, I am not particularly too excited for a full half-a-decade plus of “pandemic cinema,” that’s surely coming down the pike. Smith is early, and his film is strong, so he gets away with it here. But I’m also very much […]
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Recent Hong Kong ‘crime’ films have given their fans period fare. There’s some obvious similarities and differences between those recent films and Chan King Long’s Hand Rolled Cigarette, which is playing at this year’s NYAFF. It’s different in that it’s set in the Hong Kong of the more recent years, but the characters still have […]
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Infinitum: Subject Unknown is an intriguing British sci-fi thriller that plays out in a Groundhog Day-like scenario. Jane (Tori Butler-Hart) is the heroine who finds herself continuously gagged and tied up to a chair. Jane is in the same drab attic of a suburban home in London, England. There, she finds herself in a time […]
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Dream Horse is the latest horse racing sports film from director Euros Lyn, making his feature film directorial debut. That’s after working on various popular television shows. The film tells the true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely racehorse bred by small-town bartender Jan Vokes (Toni Collette). Having very little money and no experience, Jan […]
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