#An Eye-Opening Chronicle of Zimbabwe’s Harrowing Struggle for True Democracy – /Film

#An Eye-Opening Chronicle of Zimbabwe’s Harrowing Struggle for True Democracy – /Film

“#An Eye-Opening Chronicle of Zimbabwe’s Harrowing Struggle for True Democracy – /Film” America just scraped through an election where the President of the United States and a radical sect of his colleagues and constituents incorrectly claimed that there was fraud that resulted in the Republican party losing the presidency. But this is nothing compared to…

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#A Snooze of a Fever Dream – /Film

#A Snooze of a Fever Dream – /Film

“#A Snooze of a Fever Dream – /Film” A defeated-looking businessman (co-writer and co-director Kentucker Audley) sits in a Pepto Bismol-pink house, full of pink utensils and pink food, nothing real except his despair and a bucket of fried chicken wings that his “Buddy” (Linas Phillips) enthusiastically hawks to him. “Juicy and delicious!” Buddy says…

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#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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#’Censor’ is Unafraid to Ask Difficult Questions

#’Censor’ is Unafraid to Ask Difficult Questions

“#’Censor’ is Unafraid to Ask Difficult Questions” The “video nasty” era in Britain peaked after the Video Recording Act of 1984. This new legislation required that all cinematic and at-home releases be screened and censored. Many people feared that the low-budget horror movies that showed copious amounts of blood and guts would influence citizens, especially…

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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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