#A Horror Tale of Obsession – /Film

#A Horror Tale of Obsession – /Film

“#A Horror Tale of Obsession – /Film” It’s difficult to open up to people, isn’t it? We all have our secrets and if they’re disclosed, the person listening can either tell others, judge you for it, or use it against you. And yet, as humans, we yearn for a personal connection with someone that we…

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#Justice For Nurse Ratched in ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ – /Film

#Justice For Nurse Ratched in ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ – /Film

“#Justice For Nurse Ratched in ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ – /Film” (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.) The Movie: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: Repeat offender R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson)…

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#Fireball Visitors From Darker Worlds Review – /Film

#Fireball Visitors From Darker Worlds Review – /Film

“#Fireball Visitors From Darker Worlds Review – /Film” There are few things more soothing and sardonic than hearing Werner Herzog opine about an impending apocalypse. Along with collaborator and co-director Clive Oppenheimer, the filmmakers provide a science-rich documentary freed from the didacticism of the genre, reveling instead in the true wonder and weirdness of our…

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#‘Inconvenient Indian’ Review: An Illuminating Documentary About Cultures Often Ignored [TIFF]

#‘Inconvenient Indian’ Review: An Illuminating Documentary About Cultures Often Ignored [TIFF]

“#‘Inconvenient Indian’ Review: An Illuminating Documentary About Cultures Often Ignored [TIFF]” In 2012 Thomas King published The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, a compendium of his writings about what it means to be Native, and the types of stories both ascribed to, and told by, the various individuals broadly…

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#A Vital Courtroom Drama – /Film

#A Vital Courtroom Drama – /Film

“#A Vital Courtroom Drama – /Film” There have been a lot of conversations about Black pain as of late, whether in the news or in the movies. How do you thoughtfully depict it? Where is the line drawn? I’m far from an expert on the topic, but it seems to me that Steve McQueen, in Mangrove, the…

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#A Conspiracy and a Family – /Film

#A Conspiracy and a Family – /Film

“#A Conspiracy and a Family – /Film” We live in a time that fetishizes a post-truth. In our post-fact world, suspicion of institutions is at an all time high, and citizens on both left and right find ways to pretzel themselves into believing in grand conspiracies as the mundane facts of incompetence and hubris feel…

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#A Film That Needs an Audience – /Film

#A Film That Needs an Audience – /Film

“#A Film That Needs an Audience – /Film” During these times of social-distancing, it’s impossible to know how Get The Hell Out, part of the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness slate, would have played to a boisterous and welcoming crowd. It’s fair to say it would have been a lot more fun with…

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