Killers of the Flower Moon revolves around the Osage Nation murders in the early 20th century. A more conventional film would focus on Jesse Plemons as Tom White, a BOI agent sent to investigate the case. Actually, the Osage murders…
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At some point, I lost track of all the police procedurals on television. From Law & Order to FBI, it seems like just about every possible branch of law enforcement has been covered to some extent, with varying degrees of…
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For John Sears, known as Mule, home is wherever his feet are because he is a nomad who travels with three mules fighting for the right to walk and roam freely in the United States. In Call Me Mule, documentary…
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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! As the title implies, there’s a serial killer on the loose in Warren Skeels and Legion M’s latest slasher/horror, The Man in the White Van. It’s the early 70s in Florida, and a young…
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Written and directed by Ben Etchells, It Be an Evil Moon is a savage, darkly comic fable. A riff on the classic “hubris of man” trope, which encapsulates most stories concerning mad or discredited scientists, the comedic horror film is a character…
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In the sci-fi short Lost in Memory, writer-director Hindole H-Shihan contemplates the function of memory and technology, opening with a close-up of a computer chip lodged in somebody’s neck. That somebody is revealed to be Raphael (Ishtvan Nekrasov), a dejected…
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Ghanaian MIT alum Arthur Musah is the director, producer, and director of photography of the documentary documentary, Brief Tender Light. Spanning four years, the filmmaker documents the difficulties four MIT students have acclimating to American culture, immigration struggles, racism, and self-doubt,…
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I just finished Brett William Mauser’s epic and cheesy Serial Rabbit 7: Critical Rabbit Theory. Now, I am left with one question: what the hell happened in the first six? The slasher opens as a movie within a movie, which…
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Taylor Swift has once again proven her status as a musical and visual genius with her latest offering, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour. Directed by the talented Sam Wrench, this concert film is nothing short of a cinematic masterpiece. Chronicling…
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Older people need love stories too. Just as important as that foundational adage is the need for these stories to be represented in the arts. In history, love stories have largely been the domain of the young and beautiful, but…
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In the eerie expanse of Norman Partridge‘s Halloween landscape, director David Slade cultivates a visually rich harvest with Dark Harvest, a fantasy horror film that delves into the depths of fear and folklore. Although the film tantalizingly explores the sinister…
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A security guard has an indelible encounter in Dylan Boom’s dramatic short, Elevate. Tiffany (Tracie Thoms) is a night shift security guard at a California State Government office. As the amiable Tiffany does her rounds, she spots Paul (Jason Butler…
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