Category: Featured
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Cinema Royale: Talking ‘Army Of The Dead’, ‘Profile’, ‘The Woman In The Window’, ‘Knives Out 2’, & More
Special Guest: Scott Menzel of We Live Entertainment
On this week’s Cinema Royale, we’re joined by Scott Menzel of We Live Entertainment to rave about Zack Snyder’s anticipated Zombie heist film Army of the Dead, and talk about the future of it as a Netflix franchise. Plus, the latest ScreenLife thriller Profile made quite an impression, and so did The Woman in the…
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Review: ‘The Perfect Candidate’
Haifaa al-Mansour Gets Back To Her Hopeful, Empowering Roots
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The Perfect Candidate is open in select area theaters now.* It’s good to see Haifaa al-Mansour get back to basics, so to speak. Her 2012 debut, the uplifting, vitally-important coming of age film Wadjda, made her the first Saudi woman to…
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Review: ‘The Man In The Hat’
Ciarán Hinds Charms In A “Silent” Road Trip Comedy That’s Tough To Define
The Man In The Hat right off is a tough movie to define. It’s a comedy, but really is quirkier than but-gusting. It’s silent, if you don’t count all the French dialogue and the music, which is throughout the film. However, that doesn’t mean that the film isn’t uniquely entertaining, and that’s mostly due to…
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Review: ‘The Djinn’
IFC’s Newest Horror Will Make You Be Careful What You Wish For
Dylan Jacobs (Ezra Dewey) and his father Michael (Rob Brownstein) are trying to pick up the pieces in The Djinn. It is the fall of 1989 and a few months earlier Dylan’s mother Michelle (Tevy Poe) took her own life. Now it is Michael’s sole responsibility to raise Dylan and look out for him. Dylan…
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Review: ‘Riders Of Justice’
Mads Mikkelsen Is Pitch Perfect In The Quirky Revenge Dramedy
Despite being in colossal blockbusters, including the upcoming reboot of Indiana Jones and fourth Fantastic Beasts film, Mads Mikkelsen is at his best in Danish independent films. This rings true in his latest venture, Riders of Justice (though it might not be fair to call it an indie film.) In it, Mikkelsen plays your standard…
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Review: ‘The Killing Of Two Lovers’
Clayne Crawford Gives A Career-Defining Performance About The Breakdown Of A Marriage
Let’s just keep it 100. Marriage is hard. The idea of a union between two people who love each other is often, well, for lack of a better term: romanticized. The idea that two people can meet, fall in love, and live happily ever after looks good from a bird’s eye view. But it’s very…
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Review: ‘High Ground’
Stephen Maxwell Johnson Tells A Jarring Tale About Loyalty From The Dark Side of Australia’s History
Of all of the under-represented and underserved in the history books Australia’s Indigenous people must be somewhere near the top. Perhaps in Europe they learn more about what these people have gone through at the hands of British colonialism, but somehow, I doubt it. Even sitting here writing this, I don’t know very much in…