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2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Ailey

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Ailey, 2021. Directed by Jamila Wignot. SYNOPSIS:  A feature-length portrait of the life and work of dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey. “Sometimes your name becomes bigger than yourself.” A single line from Ailey sums up the enigmatic figure at the center of this new documentary. That’s not to say the iconic dancer and choreographer wasn’t […]

Censor Never Reaches Its Full Horror Potential | Sundance 2021 Video Review

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Censor, 2021. Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond. Starring Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller, Michael Smiley, Clare Holman, Andrew Havill, Felicity Montagu, Danny Lee Wynter, Clare Perkins, Guillaume Delaunay, Richard Glover, Beau Gadsdon, Amelie Child-Villiers. You may call me a bit sick for this, but I expected more “nasty” out of […]

2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

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Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, 2021. Directed by Mariem Pérez Riera. Featuring Rita Moreno, Norman Lear, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Justina Machado, Whoopi Goldberg, Gloria Estefan, and Morgan Freeman. SYNOPSIS:  The film follows Rita Moreno, focusing on her early life and career. There are few living Hollywood legends quite like Rita […]

2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – CODA

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CODA, 2021. Directed by Sian Heder. Starring Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, and Eugenio Derbez. SYNOPSIS: A hearing child in a deaf family finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her family’s reliance on her to be their connection to the outside world. Sitting down for my […]

John Boyega and Robert De Niro set to star in Netflix thriller The Formula

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Deadline reports that John Boyega and Robert De Niro will team up to star in an upcoming thriller film for Netflix. The Formula will be helmed by Gerard McMurray, the filmmaker behind one of Netflix’s first original films Burning Sands. McMurray (The First Purge) will serve as the film’s writer and director as well as […]

Malcolm & Marie – Netflix’s Messy “Love Story” | Movie Review

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Malcolm & Marie, 2021. Written and Directed by Sam Levinson. Starring Zendaya and John David Washington. Starring two of the best fresh faces in Hollywood, Zendaya and John David Washington, you’d expect Malcolm & Marie to be a slam dunk. While not a “bad film” by any means, join our critic EJ Moreno as he […]

Whatever Happened To: Guillermo del Toro’s Justice League Dark

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In the latest episode of Whatever Happened To?, EJ Moreno takes a look at Guillermo del Toro’s Justice League Dark… Almost a decade ago, word began circulating that Blade II and Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro was looking to bring together the supernatural characters of the DC Universe for an adaptation of the Justice League […]

Syfy’s Day of the Dead will have connections to the George A. Romero classic

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While George A. Romero has been gone for a while now, his legacy still lives on and it looks like the creators behind the upcoming Day of the Dead series are looking to keep his memory alive. When speaking to Boo Crew Podcast, over on BloodyDisgusting.com, series director Steven Kostanski opened up about the upcoming […]

The Kid Detective is a mystery worth solving | Video Review

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The Kid Detective, 2020. Directed by Evan Morgan. Starring Adam Brody, Peter MacNeill, Maurice Dean Wint, Kaitlyn Chalmers-Rizzato, Sarah Sutherland, Wendy Crewson, Jonathan Whittaker, Sophie Nélisse, Tzi Ma, Amalia Williamson, Jesse Noah Gruman, Marcus Zane, Lisa Truong, Sharon Crandall, Sophia Webster, Kira Gelineau, Dallas Edwards, Avery Esteves, and Bethanie Ho. The Kid Detective, starring The […]