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Movie Review – Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022)

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Christmas Bloody Christmas, 2022. Directed by Joe Begos. Starring Riley Dandy, Sam Delich and Abraham Benrubi. SYNOPSIS: A robotic shopping mall Santa Claus comes to life and promptly embarks upon a Christmas Eve killing spree. Christmas and horror are excellent bedfellows, with the forced smiles of the festive season easily twisted into vile grimaces. If […]

Movie Review – Emancipation (2022)

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Emancipation, 2022. Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Starring Will Smith, Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa, Steven Ogg, Gilbert Owuor, Mustafa Shakir, Grant Harvey, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Jayson Warner Smith, Jabbar Lewis, Michael Luwoye, Aaron Moten, Imani Pullum, Paul Ben-Victor, Jesse C. Boyd, David Denman, Jeremiah Friedlander, Jordyn McIntosh, Landon Chase Dubois, Austin Alexander, and Britton Webb. SYNOPSIS: […]

Book Review – Star Trek: Designing Starships – The USS Voyager and Beyond

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Designing Starships – The USS Voyager and Beyond… In this latest Eaglemoss Hero Collector Star Trek book, titled Star Trek: Designing Starships – The USS Voyager and Beyond, I was expecting perhaps a cluster of pages on Voyager, the Delta Flyer, the hairy Kazon and narrow-minded Voth, with a wee bit […]

55th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – The Whistlers (2019)

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The Whistlers. 2019 Written and Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu Starring Vlad Ivanov, Catrinel Marlon, Rodica Lazăr, Sabin Tambrea, Agustí Villaronga, István Teglas, and Antonio Buíl Synopsis: A policeman intent on freeing a crooked businessman from a prison on Gomera, an island in the Canaries. However, he must first learn the difficult local dialect, a language […]

55th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – Deerskin (2019)

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Deerskin. 2019 Written and Directed by Quentin Dupieux Starring Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy, and Pierre Gommé SYNOPSIS: A man’s obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime. An exercise in unabashed bizarreness, Deerskin sees French director Quentin Dupieux getting a committed and straight performance […]

55th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – The Truth (2019)

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The Truth. 2019 Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda Starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke, Ludivine Sagnier, Roger Van Hool, Jackie Berroyer, Laurent Capelluto, Manon Clavel, Christian Crahay, Clementine Grenier, Alain Libolt, and Maya Sansa SYNOPSIS: About a stormy reunion between a daughter and her actress mother, Catherine, against the backdrop of Catherine’s latest role in […]

Movie Review – A Love Song (2022)

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A Love Song, 2022. Written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman. Starring Dale Dickey, Wes Studi, Michelle Wilson, Benja K. Thomas, John Way, and Marty Grace Dennis. SYNOPSIS: Two childhood sweethearts, both now widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains. A love story for those who are alone. It’s always tremendously rewarding to […]

Movie Review – The Silent Twins (2022)

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The Silent Twins, 2022. Directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska. Starring Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrance, Jack Bandeira, Jordan J Gallagher, Julian R. Booth, Tony Richardson, Martin Hugh Henley, Leah Mondesir-Simmonds, Eva-Arianna Baxter, Nadine Marshall, Michael Smiley, Jodhi May, Kinga Preis, and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn. SYNOPSIS: Based on the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons, real-life identical twins […]

Movie Review – Corsage (2022)

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Corsage, 2022. Directed by Marie Kreutzer. Starring Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, Jeanne Werner, Alma Hasun, Manuel Rubey, and Colin Morgan. SYNOPSIS: A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old […]