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The Climb: Worstie
The Climb begins with a deliciously funny nine-minute single take, as best friends Mikey (Michael Angelo Covino) and Kyle (Kyle Marvin) cycle up a...
Freaky: Kill Switch
Three years ago, Christopher Landon’s Happy Death Day found some great laughs by applying the conceit of Groundhog Day to a slasher film. Now,...
Ammonite: Museum Piece
I hate making the same comparison as every other film critic, but sometimes two movies bear so many similarities that ignoring it only makes...
Film Shorts
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Blindfire (NR) Brian Geraghty stars in this thriller as a white police officer who tries to clear his name after killing an innocent African-American...
Alone Star
As I’ve mentioned before, the Lone Star Film Festival went entirely online this past week, so I had the new experience of taking in...
Film Shorts
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Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man (NR) Allen Farst’s documentary profiles the legendary rock keyboardist. Also with Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, John Mayer,...
Kindred: Baby Brains
The success of Get Out pretty much guaranteed that we’d get a movie like Kindred. After all, one place scarier to a Black person...
Let Him Go: Badlanders
Many classic Westerns were really just thrillers in disguise. You can still find some of those, but recently filmmakers have used the genre as...
Lone Star Film Festival Preview
The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in just about every film festival either being canceled (Telluride) or moving online (Cannes). This year’s edition of the...
Entering Bly Manor
In 2018’s The Haunting of Hill House, director Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Doctor Sleep) used the Shirley Jackson novel of the same name as a...
