Movie Review: The Substance (2024)
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by Vincent Gaine
5M ago
Imagine if Stanley Kubrick, David Cronenberg, Darren Aronofsky and Gaspar Noe collaborated on a film. If they did, it might look something like Coralie Fargeat’s extraordinary The Substance, a film that blends multiple elements both familiar and innovative into something truly unique and utterly unforgettable. To unpack the (inevitably) reductive comparison, The Substance features spaces ..read more
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Movie Review: Trim Season (2023)
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by Trenton Yeary
8M ago
If you’re looking for a weed-centric horror film that will make the chillest of pastimes scary, Ariel Vida’s Trim Season may fill your need. After a mysterious murder/suicide leaves a pot plantation without trimmers, five young, down-on-their-luck people are invited to the rural forests of Northern California to work at, what turns out to be, the worst summer job imaginable. While the movie starts off with an engagingly familiar hook — take lonely girls: Emma (Bethlehem Million, “Throuple”), Julia (Alex Essoe, “Death of Me”), Harriet (Ally Ioannides, “Jesus Revolution”), Lex (Juliette Kenn De ..read more
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Movie Review: The Present (2024)
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by Trenton Yeary
9M ago
The Present is a fun, yet flawed, movie that combines two familiar genres — the family movie, and science-fiction — for an enjoyable enough time for anyone who might be scrolling through their favorite streaming service looking for an easy watch. This low-budget indie comes from “Love, Rosie” director, Christian Ditter, and “Get Hard” writer, Jay Martel. Together they spin a story featuring fun time travel antics and divorce problems. While that sounds like polar opposites, the story brings both these opposites hand in hand for better or worse. The story kicks off with a mysterious clock being ..read more
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Movie Review: It Lives Inside (2023)
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by Vincent Gaine
1y ago
The great thing about genre is that it offers fans straightforward and familiar material, but it also allows filmmakers the space to come up with new interpretations within established formulae. This is especially true of horror, and the challenge for the filmmaker is to offer scares within the blend of familiarity and innovation. Bishal Dutta’s It Lives Inside is similar to many examples of what could be called the “curse film,” from “Ringu” and “The Grudge” to “Drag Me to Hell,” “It Follows” and 2022’s “Smile.” There is an initial victim, a protagonist who becomes the latest target, a tickin ..read more
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Movie Review: The Inhabitant (2022)
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by Vincent Gaine
1y ago
The case of Lizzie Borden is popular and famous, to the extent of having effectively entered folklore. Taking place in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892, the murders of Abby and Andrew Borden and the trial of Andrew’s daughter Lizzie the following year that ended in her acquittal, has been the subject of books, theatrical productions, folk rhymes and indeed movies. The Inhabitant joins this limited sub-genre, but rather than depicting the events of the murders themselves, Jerren Lauder’s film explores the legacy of such a dark history. The opening supertext of the film provides the context of ..read more
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Movie Review: The Man from Rome (2022)
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by Vincent Gaine
1y ago
The title The Man from Rome evokes the thriller genre, be that spy, conspiracy or crime. Think of “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” “The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,” or indeed, “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” True to title, The Man From Rome utilizes tropes of conspiracy, espionage, mystery and action. It comes complete with a stern-faced but honorable hero, clearly dangerous with a shadowy past, plagued by guilt but absolutely the man you want on your side. There are multiple computers with urgent-looking tech experts tapping rapidly away, talk of servers, hacking, protected files and secret accounts ..read more
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Movie Review: Breaking Infinity (2023)
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by Akriti Kanodia
1y ago
Every once in a while, I am glad to watch a movie that I wouldn’t normally watch. This, however, was not one of those times. In the 80 minutes that I sacrificed watching Breaking Infinity, an indie film about time travel, I did wonder if I could use their equipment to go back and not watch this film. Directed by Marianna Dean (“Hollyoaks” TV series), the movie has an interesting story but little to no support. The budget for this science fiction thriller is minimal, but it is not the biggest issue with this film. The writing of David Trotti (“Exorcist: House of Evil”) is the culprit. Under-dev ..read more
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Movie Review: Ghosted (2023)
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by General Disdain
1y ago
I don’t claim to know them in any way, shape or form though, truth be told, I wouldn’t mind if I did. Nonetheless, from what I’ve seen of Chris Evans (“Avengers: Endgame”) and Ana de Armas (“No Time To Die”) from tabloid news (which admittedly is a terrible source to base an opinion upon) they both appear to be charismatic and good-natured people to be around. You wouldn’t, however, come to that conclusion from watching the cheerless film Ghosted, in which both star and pretend to share unrivaled sexual chemistry. The Dexter Fletcher (“Eddie the Eagle”) directed film starts as many meet-cute r ..read more
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Movie Review: Condor’s Nest (2023)
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by Alan Gerstle
2y ago
The good news about the film Condor’s Nest, an international revenge thriller set in 1950s Latin America that features a surviving WWII American airman Will Spalding (Jacob Keohane, “Halloween Kills”) in search of a sadistic SS Colonel (Arnold Vosloo, “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”), is that it conforms to a three-act structure. This is the paradigm that screenwriting gurus consider to be the Holy Grail of feature length narrative film making. The bad news is that Phil Plattenburger, writer and director, gets nearly everything else wrong. Even the film’s genre is in question. Whether the viewer ..read more
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Movie Review: Hit the Road (2021)
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by Howard Schumann
2y ago
“Hit the road Jack and don’t you come back, No more, no more, no more, no more. Hit the road Jack and don’t you come back no more” — Percy Mayfield A road trip that builds on Abbas Kiarostami’s “A Taste of Cherry” and Jafar Panahi’s “Taxi,” Jafar’s son Panah has built on his father’s legacy in Hit the Road, a mixture of laugh out loud comedy, sadness, family drama, and serious social/political issues. While the film succeeds in bringing the meaning of the genre “comedy/drama,” into sharp focus, its protest against the repressive regime in Tehran is clear. From the opening scene, however, it is ..read more
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