#Deranged Comedy Fizzles in Frenetic Filth – /Film

#Deranged Comedy Fizzles in Frenetic Filth – /Film

“#Deranged Comedy Fizzles in Frenetic Filth – /Film” Mother Schmuckers marks the first time a Belgian film is playing in the Midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival. Normally, this section is a great place to find unsettling horror and/or twisted dark comedy, and while the debut film from directing duo Harpo & Lenny Guit delivers…

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#Knocking Review: Sundance 2021 – /Film

#Knocking Review: Sundance 2021 – /Film

“#Knocking Review: Sundance 2021 – /Film” Molly (Cecilia Milocco) has just left a mental institution and is ready to start over. Her new life takes her to an apartment complex, but as a heatwave sets in, this place of potential new beginnings turns ominous. There’s a strange, inexplicable knocking sound coming from the apartment above…

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#In the Earth Review: Sundance 2021 – /Film

#In the Earth Review: Sundance 2021 – /Film

“#In the Earth Review: Sundance 2021 – /Film” “People get a bit funny in the woods,” a character says early on in Ben Wheatley‘s In the Earth, and that line could double as the movie’s mantra. Like the filmmaker’s A Field in England, it follows characters lost in nature, slowly going out of their minds as they…

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#The Pink Cloud Review: Sundance 2021 – /Film

#The Pink Cloud Review: Sundance 2021 – /Film

“#The Pink Cloud Review: Sundance 2021 – /Film” Welcome to a world where people are stuck inside, quarantined against something deadly lurking beyond their doors and windows. No, it’s not the story of COVID-19 – it’s The Pink Cloud, a film shot in 2019, before many of us had any idea what the coronavirus even was;…

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#A Celebration of the “Black Woodstock” – /Film

#A Celebration of the “Black Woodstock” – /Film

“#A Celebration of the “Black Woodstock” – /Film” The 1969 Woodstock music festival, which featured performances by artists like Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, and The Who, seared its way into the public consciousness almost immediately and became an almost mythical touchstone for the anti-establishment movement of the 1960s. But that same summer, 100 miles away,…

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#A Stylish Road Trip Dramedy – /Film

#A Stylish Road Trip Dramedy – /Film

“#A Stylish Road Trip Dramedy – /Film” Thai director Nattawut Poonpiriya‘s impossibly stylish high school heist thriller Bad Genius was one of the best hidden gems to emerge from the Southeast Asian region over the past few years, and seemed to signal a bright new filmmaker in the arena who could rival Edgar Wright in…

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#Censor Review: Sundance 2021 – /Film

#Censor Review: Sundance 2021 – /Film

“#Censor Review: Sundance 2021 – /Film” It’s the 1980s, and the United Kingdom is clutching at their pearls over a wave of video nasties – low-budget, ultra-bloody horror films that are on the rise thanks to the miracle of VHS. While a sensible person may realize that such films – violent as they may be…

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#Justin Timberlake film out of sync

#Justin Timberlake film out of sync

“#Justin Timberlake film out of sync” Running time: 110 minutes. Rated R (language, some sexual content/nudity and brief violence) On AppleTV+. Few elements of Justin Timberlake’s new movie “Palmer” are ever *NSYNC. We’ve got committed performances from the actor and the wonderful June Squibb, but a script written in crayon. They play embraceable characters with…

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#Denzel Washington cop film a dud

#Denzel Washington cop film a dud

“#Denzel Washington cop film a dud” Running time: 127 minutes. Rated R (violent/disturbing images, language and full nudity) In select theaters and on HBO Max. The No. 1 rule for any detective story: The mystery cannot be boring. Shove in all the moral and ethical quandaries and Oscar winners you want, but without a satisfying…

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