Category: Featured
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Review: ‘Cordelia’
Antonia Campbell-Hughes And Adrian Shergold’s Psychological Horror Film Doesn’t Know What It’s Paranoid About
In Cordelia, the titular character is struggling to maintain her sanity after experiencing a subway bombing almost a decade previously. She lives with her twin sister in her father’s old apartment, not going anywhere except for the theater in which she works. The Adrian Shergold directed film starts out as a slow burn melodrama. His leading…
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Review: ‘Hit The Road’
Panah Panahi Debuts Iranian New Wave Film About A Road-Tripping Family That Delivers Raw Emotion and Real Turmoil
Kino Lorber is pleased to present Hit The Road, a touching family drama from Iranian writer/director Panah Panahi. Panahi’s father, Jafar, who is considered an icon of the Iranian New Wave despite his 2010 banishment from making films in Iran. Panah’s father has continued to create cinematic artistry like 2011’s wily piece, This is Not…
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Review: ‘Hold Your Fire’
Stefan Forbes’ New Documentary Showcases How The 1973 NYC Hostage Situation Changed Law Enforcement Forever
Nowadays when we think of a hostage situation, a negotiator is always the most important person on the scene. Depending on how skilled the negotiator is, they can save endless lives, even the culprits. Almost every action movie has a hostage negotiator as part of the final act’s ensemble. Hell, Samuel L. Jackson and a…
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Review: ‘Senior Year’
Rebel Wilson’s High School Comedy Is More Nostalgic Than Funny
The ’90s were especially rich in quirky high school comedies, and there are worse things to crib from than 1999’s Drew Barrymore rom-com Never Been Kissed. And that’s what the Rebel Wilson comedy Senior Year tries ever so hard to do, with its lead playing a former high school queen bee forced by improbably dumb circumstances to relive…
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Review: ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo Makes Being A Lawyer Look Like A Blast In Netflix’s New Series Based On The Beloved Novels
If there’s one thing TV has a plethora of, it’s legal shows. We’ve had Law And Order on since I was a kid and countless other shows showcasing the legal profession, but even still, Netflix’s new series The Lincoln Lawyer manages to keep the genre fresh as we get to spend more time with Mickey…
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Review: ‘Foxhole’
Jack Fessenden’s New Film Shows The Drama, Fear, Excitement, And Isolation Of War Across Three Different Conflicts
It has been said that the theater of war can be summarized in moments of sheer boredom, and sheer terror. Soldiers can spend plenty of time is spent waiting for the action to happen, but when it happens, it’s complete chaos, confusion, and quick second life or death decision making. While most war films tend…
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Review: ‘Firestarter’
Zac Efron And Ryan Kiera Armstrong Star In A Horror Remake That Fails To Ignite
This Firestarter definitely does not bring the smoke. The thing about Stephen King adaptations on the big screen is that most fail to fully realize the rich detail and characterization that flesh out his novels. You can tell the rubbish ones almost immediately. King stories should NEVER feel generic or dispensable, and that’s what this…