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Crawl, 2019 – ★★★
This little film surprised me. There is real craftsmanship at work here from Alexandre Aja. It was really refreshing to see a film set in Florida during a hurricane, just due to the fact...
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Hereditary, 2018 – ★★★★★
Since there is no shortage of praise here, I’m just going to review this film in the context of a theatre viewing:
This was far and away the greatest theatre experience I have ever had,...
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The Farewell, 2019 ★★★
“You think ones life belongs to one’s self”...”In the East a person’s life is part of a whole.”
This idea is central to Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell”, a personal meditation on saying goodbye and the...
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How YOU can improve our media
What are some steps we can take right now to improve our media incentives and the information we are consuming?
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The Devil All The Time, 2020 – ★★★
"There's some no good sons of bitches out there"
"The Devil All The Time", a backwoods, West Virginian tale about faith and the cycle of violence, is the fourth feature from director Antonio Campos. It...
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Do You Consider Yourself Informed?
We live in an age where we all have infinite information at our fingertips. why does that information lead us in such opposite directions.
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things, 2020 – ★★★★
“People like to think of themselves as points moving through time, but I think it’s probably the opposite. We’re stationary and time passes through us. Blowing like cold wind, stealing our heat.”
Disclaimer : I...
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The Art of Self Defense, 2019 – ★★★
“I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes” ~ Patton Oswalt
Riley Stearns second feature film is a very confident dark comedy about...