Category: Reviews
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Review: ‘American Siege’
Bruce Willis’s Newest Action Film Is A Reminder How Far He’s Fallen
Roy (Rob Gough) is finally out of prison after 10 long years in American Siege. Shortly before he was arrested, his girlfriend Bridget Baker disappeared. Of course, he was blamed for the crime, but swears his innocence. His emotions did get the best of him, and he made some decisions that got himself locked up.…
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Sundance Review: ‘Piggy’
Carlota Pereda’s Brutal Body Horror Has Teeth
Body horror and mutilation are not the scariest things about filmmaker Carlota Pereda’s Piggy. Sure, a teenage girl covered in slashes slowly pulling herself out from the tree line is ominous. Blood gushing into a pool isn’t exactly a good sign and young women tied up like pigs for slaughter is, at least, alarming. But…
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Sundance Review: ‘Girl Picture’
Director Alli Haapasalo Infuses Empathy Into A Warm Coming-Of-Age Film That Defies Stereotypes
In Finnish director’s Alli Haapasalo’s newest film, we follow three girls over three separate Fridays as they navigate their young adulthood. It’s a fairly simple plot, if not overdone especially with past Sundance fare. But with a killer soundtrack and score overseen by Jan Forrström and three excellent performances from leads Aamu Milonoff, Eleonoora Kauhanen,…
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Review: ‘Evolve’
Curiosity Stream’s Newest Documentary Highlights Global Issues And Survival By Mimicking Nature
Evolve is the latest original and six part series to be featured on Curiosity Stream that explores how humanity is looking to solve many of its fundamental issues by “mimicking” the incredible innovations found in plants, animals, mammals, and all the cool things found in nature. Curiosity Stream is an American media company and subscription video…
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Sundance Review: ‘The Janes’
An In-Depth Reflection On An Important Chapter In Women’s Reproductive Rights
Almost 49 years to the day, Roe v. Wade was decided by the Supreme Court. The controversial ruling granted all women the fundamental right to choose whether or not to have an abortion without government restriction. But abortion didn’t start with the passing of the landmark court case. Over a 5 year period from 1968…
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Sundance Review: ‘blood’
Carla Juri Muddles Through Japan In Bradley Rust Gray’s Meandering Drama About Rebounding From Grief
One of my favorite jokes from the first Deadpool comic book series is “The melodic sound of gunfire, the international language.” It doesn’t matter where you come from, everybody knows what violence sounds like. But there are other common languages that you don’t need words to communicate, and that’s what Bradley Rust Gray’s meandering romance…
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Sundance Review: ‘God’s Country’
Thandiwe Newton Battles Racism And Red State Politics In A Tense, Bleak Neo-Western
Reace and class collide with a tension as bitter as the Montana chill in Julian Higgins’ neo-Western, God’s Country. The film is a reimagining of the short story by James Lee Burke, which was about a white man in his 40s attempting to protect his land from trespassing hunters. But the dynamic gets flipped considerably…