Vesper Short Film Review

French short film Vesper tells the story of Marge Ofenbey. A woman who isolates herself in her own home after fleeing her sinister and manipulative husband. She asks her nephew Christian for help but there is more than meets the eye. What is Marge hiding and why is she so afraid of the stars? Agnes…

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Christine (2016) Review: Throughly Unnerving

The thoroughly unnerving and slow-burn psychological drama Christine will almost certainly send a shiver down your spine, especially if you have no clue about the real events that inspired this deeply unsettling motion picture, which was directed with a continued sense of cinematic implacability by the sharp and extremely talented filmmaker Antonio Campos (Afterschool, Simon…

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Adaptation (2002) Review

I’m a fan of all of the works from writer/director Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Her, Where the Wild Things Are), but the 2002 meta-comedy Adaptation is probably my favorite piece from idiosyncratic and deeply thought provoking cinematic voice. Written with his singular brand of existential dread and tack-sharp satire by Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche, NY,…

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Ghost Note Review

Ghost Note revolves around Mallory (Alicia Underwood) who gets left behind at her grandma’s house while her parents jet off on a Hawaii vacation without her. The girl in question is your usual annoying teenager so I couldn’t blame her on-screen parents one bit for leaving the little madamn behind. In the early 1970’s, a…

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Interstellar (2014) Review

Interstellar, Christopher Nolan’s visually astonishing and mind-bending science-fiction epic, is an overwhelming experience. At least it was for me when I saw it on an IMAX screen, and it continues to be every single time I pop in the Blu-ray or watch it on HBO. It’s a $165 million anti-blockbuster that was based on an…

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WTF Film Review

WTF is your usual run of the mill cabin in the woods teen slasher movie. But I’m going to cut this one a whole chunk of slack. This movie is a low budget indie. A movie made on a shoe string budget, yet it looks like any other cabin in the woods style movie, studio…

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Spiderman homecoming review

Spider-Man: Homecoming Review

  When the credits rolled it all made perfect sense. The film had six screenwriters. Six. Spider-Man: Homecoming is two films. The first story is an incredibly engaging story of class warfare; an examination of how the assembly of the Avengers created an even greater economic divide between the ruling class and the common people….

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Matchstick Men

Matchstick Men (2003) Review

Tonight’s feature presentation is Ridley Scott’s Matchstick Men, which easily makes my personal top five from Scott, and now that it’s a Netflix streaming option, I hope more people check it out. The cinematic sleight of hand on display in this film is remarkable. It’s so stylish in a very subtle way; I love it…

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