NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Writer and director Peter Cannon’s feature film debut, Exposure, pushes paranoia and post-traumatic stress to the edge. Reminiscent of a Hitchcock thriller, this psychological thriller follows the wild-eyed, stressed-out, and blood-baring Tanner (Douglas Smith), who writes computer…
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Dear David, a brand new supernatural horror film directed by John McPhail (best known for directing the delightfully wholesome horror comedy Anna and the Apocalypse) and based on Adam Ellis’ Twitter thread of the same name, is a disappointing and…
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Summary Killers of the Flower Moon is a devastating and captivating film that showcases the cruelty, violence, and greed of the murderers and the agony suffered by the Osage Nation. Martin Scorsese has crafted a dark and intricately layered story…
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The first season of Upload felt like it arrived at just the right time. Michael Schur's afterlife comedy The Good Place had just come to an end and everybody was looking for something to watch in its place. Upload offered…
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Mob films document the rise, infiltration, or gradual fall of organized crime families and institutions. For police detective Bobby Belucci (Emile Hirsch) of Danny A. Abeckaser’s newest indie crime thriller, Inside Man, he is dead set on infiltrating the ill-famed…
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Jeremy A. Lopez’s documentary, One for ALL: The DJ Chris Villa Story, takes into the world of competitive DJ-ing, but this is not your typical sports or music documentary. As the title suggests, this is about one of the nation’s…
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Diana Nyad is an exceptional athlete and an all-around fascinating individual. This comes across in her biopic, even if the film isn’t as extraordinary as the woman at the core. Nyad hits all of the notes that it needs to,…
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In the dark, disturbing realm of body horror, Anna Zlokovic‘s Appendage plunges audiences into a nightmarish journey through the psyche of its protagonist, Hannah, played with palpable vulnerability by Hadley Robinson. The film serves as a stark reminder that beneath…
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There is a lot of brilliance in writer/director Ryan Guiterman’s Canvas, but it has to be balanced against a lot that is amateur or limited. The animated horror offering kicks off with nice, anime-style credits, seemingly aimed at placing this within that…
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The Big Picture Stranger Things: Flight of Icarus delves into Eddie Munson's backstory, revealing the highs and lows of the beloved character. The novel introduces new characters and expands on existing ones, including Eddie's friends, family, and love interests. Written…
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I have long been of the belief that secrets will eat you alive. They tend to fester like an infection in your very soul. The two main characters of writer-director Finn Taylor’s Avenue of the Giants have been keeping traumatic secrets for…
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Housed inside one of the most evil and haunted places in the UK we were kindly invited to Newsham Scream Park for their first ever event as the old orphanage / asylum welcomed guests to a scare maze experience like…
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