‘Rez Ball’ Review – Netflix’s Basketball Drama Sticks to Formula, but Finds Light in the Darkness
“The higher you go, the greater the fall,” Gloria Holiday (Julia Jones) tells her son Jimmy (Kauchani Bratt) early in Rez Ball. When Gloria was her son’s age, she was a basketball star on the Navajo Reservation team in Chuska,…
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Netflix’s Inspiring Sports Drama Takes A Challenging Subject & Fills It With Hope
This article contains references to suicide. Rez Ball is a moving sports drama based on true events that rocked a small community following a suicide. The film approaches challenging topics, while also focusing on the hope and unity the Native…
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Nick Frost’s Family Vacation Nightmare Is More Than Meets the Eye
In the vein of Midsommar and Sightseers, Steffen Haars’ Get Away is a vacation nightmare that delivers on its “getaway” wordplay. Nick Frost writes and stars in this Nordic take on tourism as a cornily comedic and viciously violent invasion.…
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‘‘Doctor Odyssey’ Review – Sexy Network TV Is Back, Baby!
ABC’s glamorous new Ryan Murphy series, Doctor Odyssey, set sail last night, hot on the heels of the un-bee-lievable Season 8 premiere of 9-1-1. Set aboard a luxury cruise ship captained by Captain Massey (Don Johnson), the new series aims…
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Pink Belt Featured, Reviews Film Threat
The best thing about Pink Belt is that one does not need to know anything about its subject, Aparna Rajawat, going in. Writer-director John McCrite’s documentary is about Rajawat and her desire to bring awareness to violence against women in…
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‘Better Man’ Review – Robbie Williams Is a CGI Monkey In Wild Take on the Music Biopic
How do you spice up another musician's ego-soothing biographical drama? Monkeys. I'm not joking. Better Man started as a conversation between English pop royalty Robbie Williams and director Michael Gracey. Williams expressed feeling like a dancing monkey in stages of…
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Will Ferrell Navigates Evolving Friendship In Hilarious & Emotional Netflix Documentary
Will & Harper is a beautiful story of friendship and change, with plenty of laughter along the way. Will Ferrell has made a career out of being a comedic actor. From his breakout role in 1995 on Saturday Night Live,…
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‘Pachinko’ Season 2 Episode 6 Recap
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Pachinko Season 2 Episode 6. Apple TV+'s Pachinko has always depicted the downsides of living in a patriarchy. Whether it's Sunja (Minha Kim) doing her best to meet society's standards or Solomon…
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‘The Old Man’ Season 2 Episode 4 Recap
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Old Man Season 2 Episode 4. To say Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges), Harold Harper (John Lithgow), and Emily Chase (Alia Shawkat) are really in it now would be a massive understatement.…
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The Exiles (Los Tortuga) Featured, Reviews Film Threat
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! Outside in the parts of the world that are not Hollywood, the boundaries of hard drama keep expanding farther, like in the outstanding sophomore feature The Exiles (Los Tortuga) by director Belen Funes. Written…
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‘9-1-1’ Season 8 Review – Buzzing Back Into Action, but Not Without Flaws
The 118 is officially back, but 9-1-1 Season 8 doesn't take us back to what we're familiar with. Instead, our team is thrown off-kilter without their captain — and right as a superswarm of bees attack Los Angeles. Even worse,…
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Megalopolis Review | Flickreel
Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project of over 45 years, might be his most autobiographical film. The story centers on an artist in a race against time to complete his masterpiece. His unique vision is challenged by conservative forces who…
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