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Movie Review – Knox Goes Away (2024)

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Knox Goes Away, 2024.Directed by Michael Keaton. Starring Michael Keaton, James Marsden, Suzy Nakamura, Joanna Kulig, Ray McKinnon, John Hoogenakker, Lela Loren, Marcia Gay Harden, Al Pacino, Dennis Dugan, Chad Donella, Jay Paulson, Marisa Echeverria, Paul Perri, Charles Bisset, Edwin Garcia II, Natasha Galano, and Morgan Bastin.SYNOPSIS:When a contract killer has a rapidly evolving form […]

Glasgow Film Festival 2024 Review – Black Dog

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Black Dog, 2023.Directed by George Jaques. Starring Jamie Flatters, Keenan Munn-Francis, Nicholas Pinnock, Paul Kaye, Hattie Morahan, and Ruby Stokes.SYNOPSIS:Two teenage boys from very different London backgrounds embark on a road trip North together. As they start to open up about their pasts, the boys learn they have far more in common than they first […]

2024 SXSW Film Festival Review – Desert Road

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Desert Road, 2024.Written and Directed by Shannon Triplett. Starring Kristine Froseth, Frances Fisher, Beau Bridges, Ryan Hurst, D.B. Woodside, Max Mattern, Rachel Dratch, and Edwin Garcia II.SYNOPSIS:A young woman crashes her car and walks down the road seeking help, only to find that she ends up back at her car no matter which way she […]

Movie Review – Piaffe (2022)

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Piaffe, 2022Directed by Ann Oren  Starring Simone Bucio, Sebastian Rudolph, Simon[e] Jaikiriuma PaetauSYNOPSIS:When their sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. Then, a horsetail starts growing out of their body.Visual artist and filmmaker Ann Oren’s debut feature Piaffe showcases a sensual and […]

Movie Review – Imaginary (2024)

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Imaginary, 2024.Directed by Jeff Wadlow. Starring DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Veronica Falcón, Betty Buckley, Taegen Burns, Pyper Braun, Dane DiLiegro, Alix Angelis, Cecilia Leal, and Matthew Sato.SYNOPSIS:A woman returns to her childhood home to discover that the imaginary friend she left behind is very real and unhappy that she abandoned him.Imaginary comes across like a […]

Glasgow Film Festival 2024 Review – The Burning Season

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The Burning Season, 2023.Directed by Sean Garrity. Starring Jonas Chernick, Sara Canning, Joe Pingue, and Tanisha Thammavongsa.SYNOPSIS:Alena and her husband spend a summer up at Luna Lake Resort. JB runs the place. He and Alena begin a dangerous and passionate secret affair. Summers only. That’s the rule. Until they break it. A sexy and tragic […]

Masters of the Air – Part Eight Review

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Chris Connor reviews the eighth episode of Masters of the Air…Masters of the Air’s penultimate episode sets the stage for the show’s conclusion as the allied forces move closer to reclaiming Europe both in the build-up and aftermath of the D-Day landings, of course, depicted in the previous series Band of Brothers. The focus of […]

Glasgow Film Festival 2024 Review – The Teachers’ Lounge

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The Teachers’ Lounge, 2023.Directed by Ilker Çatak. Starring Leonie Benesch, Leonard Stettnisch, Eva Löbau, Michael Klammer, and Rafael Stachowiak.SYNOPSIS:When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break […]

Movie Review – Damsel (2024)

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Damsel, 2024.Directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Starring Millie Bobby Brown, Nick Robinson, Robin Wright, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Angela Bassett, Ray Winstone, Brooke Carter, Rui M Tomas, Ulli Ackermann, Erickson Dos Santos Gomes, Ricarda Clay, Esther Odumade, Sonya Nisa, Ricky Guillart, Nicole Joseph, Brogan McFarlane, Elmano Sancho, Sam Sharma, and Mens-Sana Tamakloe.SYNOPSIS:A dutiful damsel agrees to marry […]

Movie Review – Ricky Stanicky (2024)

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Ricky Stanicky, 2024.Directed by Peter Farrelly. Starring Zac Efron, John Cena, Andrew Santino, Jermaine Fowler, William H. Macy, Lex Scott Davis, Anja Savcic, Jeff Ross, Debra Lawrance, Heather Mitchell, Daniel Monks, Jane Badler, Nathan Jones, Sloan Fischer, Marta Kaczmarek, Ryan Shelton, Jim Knobeloch, Bob Farrelly, Sharon Johal, Sean Gildea, Harrison Frick, Charlie Torr, Jackson Tover, […]