If you're wondering how it felt for Florence Welch to see her own son featured in Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3, you might come to realize that she felt exactly as devastated as most audiences worldwide. Towards the end…
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NOW ON YOUTUBE! Possibly for the first time, a fan tribute out funs its inspiration with writer/director Chris Brown’s very entertaining Schizopolis 2: Psycho Killer. Film buff Chris (Chris Brown) is riding out the pandemic in Toronto in late 2021 with…
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Monica begins with an explosion of sound and the bright shine of artificial UV rays. Trace Lysette lays in a tanning bed, her eyes covered by beady protective glasses, while New Order's "Bizarre Love" plays. This extreme close-up, both jarring…
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LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Sebastien Tobler’s romance, This Time, does precisely what romances need to do. The writer-director gets us to root for the lead characters to fall in love, no matter how complicated the circumstances are.…
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A film about a famous shoe is a concept that is easy to write off but don’t judge a book (or shoe) by its cover and you’ll find one hell of a gem with this Ben Affleck directed movie. Here’s…
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I’ll say it over and over again, families shouldn’t keep secrets from one another. But then again, that makes for bad drama. Christina YR Lim’s feature film, B-Side for Taylor, reveals the secrets of a family in this coming-of-age story about…
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NOW ON TUBI! Get ready to play rough with writer/director Barry Jay’s muscular suspense film The Way Out. Alex Romero (Jonny Beauchamp) is an alcoholic songwriter who tried to kill himself while drunk. A year of sobriety later, Alex is attending…
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COMING TO SELECT THEATERS! Montreal Girls is the story of a young, sheltered Middle-Eastern student named Ramy (Hakim Brahimi) who comes to Montreal to study medicine. He is haunted by the recent death of his mother from cancer and keeps his…
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The beginning of the end is upon us once again. Though it was not all that long ago that the final season of the original series of The Walking Dead shambled to a close while leaving open the door for…
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Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde was a highly influential piece of cinema that ushered in a new era of violent and stylish storytelling that featured young people at the center. It was controversial and sexy, launched both title stars to…
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NOW ON VOD! From the title alone, it is clear that Tom Huang’s Dealing with Dad is about a child’s strained relationship with their father. Fractured familial relations is not a novel narrative beat by any means, so the writer-director has…
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Five years and one pandemic after Book Club introduced audiences to the heartfelt and hilarious story of four women reconnecting and reinventing their lives while drinking wine and reading Fifty Shades of Grey together, Book Club: The Next Chapter sends…
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