The first question that comes to mind after going through the experience of Jethro Waters‘ Gunfighter Paradise is if maybe there wasn’t another way to tell the story. It isn’t a friendly film at all, and most viewers will scratch their heads trying to come to terms with a movie that is about many things […] The post Gunfighter Paradise (2024) Film Review appeared first on Movie-Blogger.com ..read more

There’s a certain appeal that crime movies should accomplish in order to set themselves apart from the rest. Otherwise, we’re looking at centuries of storytelling, both fictional and factual, that works under the same standards and rules. Crime doesn’t pay, and usually, a life lesson is to be learned when a lead character goes through […] The post Jersey Bred (2024) Film Review appeared first on Movie-Blogger.com ..read more

Deep in the heart of Jon Delgado‘s romantic comedy, Queen of Knives, there’s something essential that we usually take for granted in films of the rom-com genre. Considered a lesser universe of films because of their usually incoherent scripts, romantic comedies are designed to appeal but not to make you think. But in this indie […] The post Queen of Knives (2024) Film Review appeared first on Movie-Blogger.com ..read more

Regardless of budgetary issues, the scope of the production itself, and even the genre, if you’re willing to take a step further and bring to life a story, at the very least, you have to try and make an interesting movie. There’s no doubt that Marlin Darrah, director of An Egypt Affair, is trying his […] The post An Egypt Affair (2024) Film Review appeared first on Movie-Blogger.com ..read more

In regards to the subject of illegal immigration and all the factors that usually come along with it, as a society, we’ve failed to progress to a situation of tolerance, empathy, and understanding of others. But don’t get me wrong. Though it feels like we’ve still got a long way to go in terms of […] The post Room Taken (2023) Short Film Review appeared first on Movie-Blogger.com ..read more

The opening credits of Simón, the Venezuelan feature by Diego Vicentini that has won awards at several film festivals and has found a home on streaming services like Netflix, show a frantic birthday celebration. It’s loud, chaotic, but extremely uplifting in the pure style of Venezuelan celebrations. A bunch of young people in a classroom […] The post Simón (2023) Film Review appeared first on Movie-Blogger.com ..read more

You have never seen something like Make Me a Pizza. Talia Shea Levin’s short film is an absurdist and steamy approach to porn and porn tropes that uses pizza and its ingredients as a backdrop to a simple story that’s only possible and probable in adult films from an era when some of them had […] The post Make Me a Pizza (2024) Short Film Review appeared first on Movie-Blogger.com ..read more

This may sound like a cliché, but there’s only one thing I would question about Kailee McGee’s Can, and that’s the fact that it’s too short. At the same time, talking about “clichés” while discussing McGee’s weirdly original film is almost offensive, considering there’s nothing typical about the film and what McGee is aiming at. […] The post Can (2024) Short Film Review appeared first on Movie-Blogger.com ..read more

  Nick Canfield‘s The Reverend is a beautiful movie. It tells of Reverend Vince Anderson, a rocker specializing in fast-paced gospel music with an agenda. Vince dropped out of seminary many years ago, and he finally listened to his heart. He wanted to play and sing for audiences. But he never dropped the attitude and […] The post The Reverend (2024) Film Review appeared first on Movie-Blogger.com ..read more

What are you doing to make this world a better place? Anne de Carbuccia is an artist with enough good and interesting work to draw the attention of fans across the world. There’s a story so powerful that it doesn’t fall between the cracks and has enough agency of its own to stay alive in […] The post Earth Protectors (2024) Film Review appeared first on Movie-Blogger.com ..read more