Hollywood’s obsession with unattainable beauty is nothing new. Over the past century, the expectations of what a woman should look like have changed drastically from one year to the next, but there has always been one common thread that constantly…
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It’s funny how breaking certain societal norms can seem worse than death. A series of events involving one family staying with another keeps getting weirder and weirder in writer/director James Watkins’ remake of the 2022 Danish film Speak No Evil,…
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TORONTO – There have been a number of unexpected news reports about “The Deb,” the feature directorial debut of Rebel Wilson, over the past few months. Wilson has been in a war of words with the producers of the indie…
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Several recent thrillers have blurred the line between what’s physiological and what’s supernatural, although most of them leaned toward the latter. For its first two acts, Never Let Go seemingly heads in one direction, promising something bold and original. In…
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In the past few years, the phenomenon of marriages falling apart has been inspected and dissected over and over again in film. From Marriage Story to, most recently, in Anatomy of a Fall, couples disbanding isn't a new concept to…
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Saturday Night Live is just one year away from its 50th anniversary, and here comes Jason Reitman with a rowdy, profane-filled film adaptation of the show's debut. Reitman is intimately connected to SNL thanks to his father, Ivan Reitman, so…
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“Hold Your Breath“ is directors Karrie Crouse and Will Joines’ debut feature, developed as part of the Sundance Institute’s Writer’s Lab program and likely a passion project. Unfortunately, due to an extremely familiar and well-worn cabin fever premise, it offers…
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The USA National Academy of Sciences states that around 45,000 years ago, prehistoric humans first traced their hands on cave walls and carved depictions of pigs into ochre. From then on, humans would illustrate, paint, sculpt, scrawl, and pass down…
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There have been plenty of films that have mined the stories of Odysseus, often concentrating on the more iconic adventures of his youth, his travails in Troy, and other elements considered worthy for such a mythologically resonant heroic figure. What…
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In My Friends, writer-director Nate Simon taps into the timeless themes of excess and wasted youth, doing for Gen Z what Bret Easton Ellis did for Gen X. The story follows three friends who, while awaitng the next semester of…
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It’s the end of an era and instead of ending it on some extravagant high with outrageous stunts, explosions and all the rest of it, One for the Road ends it on a very gentlemanly high note with a touch…
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Back in 2007, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was the first movie in the fantasy franchise that I got to see in theaters. I remember how nothing could beat my excitement at actually getting to watch the…
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