#A boring, time-traveling climate change film

#A boring, time-traveling climate change film

“#A boring, time-traveling climate change film” In a classic scene from Mel Brooks’ 1987 comedy “Spaceballs,” President Skroob of Planet Spaceball frantically reaches into his desk drawer for a can of “Perri-Air” canned oxygen. The doofus has overseen the decline of the world’s air supply, so he keeps a six-pack of the stuff to chug…

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#A Terrifying Tale of Friendship – /Film

#A Terrifying Tale of Friendship – /Film

“#A Terrifying Tale of Friendship – /Film” According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an estimated 460,000 children go missing every year in the United States. Kids can disappear in the blink of an eye and are sometimes never found. It’s a terrifying and heartbreaking concept that writer/director team David Charbonier and Justin Powell tackle…

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#‘Spring Blossom’ Review: A Controversial Subject is Tackled With Grace, Humor, and Wisdom [TIFF 2020]

#‘Spring Blossom’ Review: A Controversial Subject is Tackled With Grace, Humor, and Wisdom [TIFF 2020]

“#‘Spring Blossom’ Review: A Controversial Subject is Tackled With Grace, Humor, and Wisdom [TIFF 2020]” The most striking thing about Spring Blossom, in which a 16-year-old girl falls in love with a man in his mid-thirties, is that it stars 20-year-old director Suzanne Lindon in the leading role. The 2020 Cannes and TIFF selection is…

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#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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#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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