#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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#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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