Review: Swallow (2020), a Film About Pica ★★★
Until I saw the trailer for Carlo Mirabella-Davis’s horror-thriller, Swallow (2020), I had never heard of the Pica Disorder. For
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Review: European Tour ‘73 (2020) a Docu-Short by Ross Munro
I’ve always found home videos interesting to watch, even if they have nothing to do with me or my family.
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Review: The Noonday Witch (2016) ★★½
Witches, much like other monsters, tend to operate in the shadows. This is most evident in the cinematic world. In
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Review: Allowable Dreams (2017) a short by Javier Bonafont ★★★½
It’s true that big things come in small packages. When directors make short films, they often have a specific artistic
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Review: Nobody’s Watching (2017) ★★★½
New York City is the place where dreams are made. At least, it’s supposed to be. For years, artists and
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Review: The Disenchanted (1990) ★★½
Sometimes, you walk away from a piece of European Art Cinema and feel affected, for better or worse. Films like
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Review: As The Earth Turns (1938) ★★★½
Not to be confused with the 1933 novel and 1934 film of the same name, As The Earth Turns (1938)
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10 Marxist Films for Philosophy Students
Marxism has a long history in film, dating back to the earliest days of the Soviet Montage era in the
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Review: Most Beautiful Island (2017) ★★★½
There’s a pervasive fear of the rich among us, the regular folk. This fear works its way into the horror
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Review: The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (2011)
I don’t usually write about short films, but as a diehard Ari Aster fan, I felt the need to review
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Review: The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014) ★★½
Like most found-footage horror films, The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014) wants us to believe that we are seeing a
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Review: Claire’s Camera (2017) ★★★½
As an avid fan of Isabelle Huppert, I can say with confidence that she (and many great talents) don’t always
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Review: Les Beaux Jours (Bright Days Ahead, 2013) ★★★
There’s a long history of films suggesting that the French cinema has a mild obsession with extramarital love and sex.
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Review: The Unnamable (1988) ★
No one said it was easy to adapt H.P. Lovecraft to film, but the people behind The Unnamable (1988) make
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Review: Gwen (2018) ★★★½
When I finished watching William McGregor’s Gwen (2018), I wasn’t quite sure how I felt about it. Fast-forward a few
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Review: Society (1989) ★★
The “body horror genre” holds a strange place in the hearts of both film theorists and genre fanatics. Painting with
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Review: The Cassandra Crossing (1976) ★½
In light of the Coronavirus pandemic, streaming platforms have seen a significant uptick in viewers searching for virus disaster films
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