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Film Review: “Green Border” — Zone of Disinterest

July 24, 2024
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“Green Border” is artful, anguished agitprop.

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Film Commentary: Looking Sharp, Leatherface! “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” Turns Fifty

July 23, 2024
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No 4k DVD, Blu-ray, theatrical digital, or streaming version of the movie improves on the visceral electricity of the original “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”.

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Book Review: “Corpses, Fools and Monsters” — The History and Future of Trans Lives in Cinema

July 23, 2024
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The book’s final words offer hope for the future: “Despite the compromised nature of the trans film image of the past, there are many new horizons possible for the trans film image of the future, and that canvas, with all these images, will tell our story in cinema.”

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Film Review: “The Nature of Love” — Revamping the Rom-Com

July 21, 2024
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Director Monia Chokri finds a language for communicating Sophia’s desire without putting her body on display.

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Film Review: “Crumb Catcher” — Labor Saving Device?

July 19, 2024
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Themes of class, race, and artistic appropriation reminiscent of “American Fiction” lurk beneath “Crumb Catcher”‘s generic conventions.

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Film Review “Longlegs” — Teeth of the Hydra

July 18, 2024
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There’s more horror on the horizon, but “Longlegs” will undoubtedly stand as one of the buzziest chillers of 2024.

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Film Review: Hiroshima Non Amour

July 18, 2024
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There’s no Lubitsch in this “Touch”.

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Film Review: “The Devil’s Bath” — The Horror of Humanity

July 1, 2024
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“The Devil’s Bath” demands your full engagement; along with its primordial intensity, a great deal of subtle intelligence lies beneath its visceral surface.

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Film Review: “MaXXXine” – The Fame Monster

June 29, 2024
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It really bums me out to tell you that “MaXXXine,” the much awaited final film in the “X” trilogy, is an underwhelming ending to an otherwise interesting nu-slasher series.

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Film Review: “Kinds of Kindness” – Yorgos Is as Good as Mine

June 27, 2024
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The latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos is a confusing mishmash of forced weirdness.

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