Direct from SXSW 2021 - Reviews of Episodic Premieres: Them, Cruel Summer, Dale's House, and Chad
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Recovery | SXSW 2021 Film Review
Despite being a film about saving someone from a coronavirus breakout, Recovery is brilliant in making COVID-19 the background of the story and bringing the relationships to the forefront. By the film’s conclusion, Call and Everton have accomplished the impossible and allowed you to truly relish in the humor of life through the lens of a road-trip.
Read More »SXSW 2021 Reviews: Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free; Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil; Introducing, Selma Blair; The Oxy Kingpins
Direct from SXSW 2021 - Reviews of Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil, Inside Selma Blair, The Oxy Kingpins, and Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free.
Read More »Clarice (2021) | TV Series Pilot Review
To the disappointment of those of us who have been anticipating the arrival, Clarice offers a run-of-the-mill script with a single high-key player.
Read More »Supernova (2020) | Film Review
Relying most heavily on the two leads' delivery and chemistry, Supernova's tale of accepting mortality through the eyes of love will captivate you.
Read More »Outside the Wire | 2021 Netflix Film Review
With Anthony Mackie and Damson Idris at the ever-engaging helm, Outside the Wire gives us an intellectually subtle debate on AI technology as a war machine alongside human soldiers.
Read More »Cobra Kai: Season 3 | Series Review
Cobra Kai: Season 3 exemplifies what it means to be nostalgic while providing story and true character development. This is a show that everyone can kick off their shoes and enter the dojo to enjoy.
Read More »Happiest Season (2020) | Film Review
Happiest Season takes a traditional Christmas movie formula, wraps it in romance, comedy, and heart, and secures it with a beautiful rainbow ribbon. Read on for our spoiler-free review.
Read More »The Haunting of Bly Manor | Series Review
From the creator and director of The Haunting of Hill House, Mike Flanagan delivers a hauntingly enchanted twist on Henry James' 1898 horror novella "The Turn of the Screw", with The Haunting of Bly Manor. This is not a sequel to The Haunting of Hill House, but it does encompass some of its cast, while adding to its talented repertoire, and is - of course - about ghosts.
Read More »The Blech Effect | Film Review
The Blech Effect is a true eye-opener into the everyday world of those who struggle with mental illness and addiction, and for that, deserves commendation. David Blech is an intelligent and wealthy man, considered to be a pioneer investor in the biotech industry and at one time was referred to as the "King of Biotech". Those medical advancements and cures are, at the very core, the philanthropic endeavor we all hope our charity dollars will result in. David saw the financial prowess of investing in these through his firm, prior to his devastating loss of, well, just about everything.
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