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The Set Review – Important, Invaluable, but Not Good

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March 18, 2020
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The lesson to be taken from the 1970 Australian film The Set, recently released for home audiences by Bounty Films, is that “important” is not the same as “good”. Widely recognized as Australia’s first queer-t...

St Maud Review – This Film Will haunt You Long After its Flames Have Extinguished

Nadine Whitney
March 14, 2020
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St Maud is a disturbing first feature by writer/director Rose Glass. In an effort that is nuanced, and intelligent Glass delivers a horror film that is both unsettlingly original yet also harkens to aesthetic ...

Dark Waters Review – A Mere Theatrical Presentation of a Wikipedia Article

Christopher Spencer
March 12, 2020
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It is highly likely you have the poisonous chemical PFOA, used in the production of Teflon, in your system. 99% of people in the US have it. This is a fact shown in Dark Waters, the film based on the t...

Queen & Slim Review – Love Takes the Wheel in Lena Waithe’s Powerfully Political Outlaw Love Story

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For Black Americans, being pulled over by police risks more than just an expensive fine. It becomes a matter of life and death. The manner whereby police interaction can escalate into gunfire has been a ...

Discussing Diversity With Annie Murtagh-Monks: The Heights, Casting, and the Global Financial Crisis

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March 12, 2020
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The legacy of Annie Murtagh-Monks precedes her. Her casting work on movies like Japanese Story and Rabbit Proof Fence, and TV shows like Ship to Shore and Sweat, helped bring a welcome and much needed diversit...

Downhill Review – An Occasionally Raw, Occasionally Bumpy Relationship-Comedy

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March 6, 2020
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How would you react in a deadly emergency? Would you risk life and limb to assist others in the face of oncoming calamity? Or perhaps you pray to a higher being while seizing the opportunity to hold on to y...

Dark Waters Review – Competently Made, but Dreary and Limp

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February 27, 2020
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Todd Haynes has a filmography full of absolute gems. He’s a director able to balance stories with emotional gravitas and visual wonder; from the glitter splashed rock’n’roll of Velvet Goldmine to the muted and...

The Lighthouse Review – Cult Classic Perfection

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February 19, 2020
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On my way to see this film, I thought about a story I had seen on TV some years ago about The Smalls Lighthouse Tragedy. Two men operated a lighthouse in Wales in the 1800s. During their stint, one of the men ...

1917 Review – A Technical Spectacle Lacking Some Heart

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February 18, 2020
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Two infantry soldiers, Lance Cpl. Schofield (George MacKay) and Lance Cpl. Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) are given the task of delivering an urgent message to a fellow British battalion to call off a planned at...

New Aussie film Wild Butterfly Reveals Claire Murray’s Devastating Untold Story

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Disturbing new information about the life of controversial Perth liver transplant recipient Claire Murray has been exposed nearly a decade after her tragic death.The documentary-drama Wild Butterfly, which pr...
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