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Toronto 2024 Review: RIFF RAFF, Riffs on Parenting, The Holidays, And THE REF
The foul mouthed holiday film is now, more or less, a cinema tradition. From Terry Zwigoff’s Bad Santa to National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation to Harold Ramis’s The Ice Harvest, there are plenty of these anti-Christmas yet still kinda Christmas...
Review: STRANGE WORLD, Top-Notch World-Building, A-Level Animation
For Strange World, its 61st feature-length animated film in its 85-year-old history, Disney Animation Studios tapped veteran animator Don Hall (Raya and the Last Dragon, Moana, Big Hero 6) and playwright-turned-screenwriter Qui Nguyen (Raya and the Last Dragon), the former to...
THE INSPECTION Trailer: Identity and Belonging
I have no earthly idea why anyone would want to volunteer for military service, but The Inspection gives valid and understandable reasons why one young person chose to do so. Inspired by events in his own life, Elegance Britton has...
New Teaser For THE BIRTH OF A NATION: Strange Fruit and Bloody Justice
Winner of both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at Sundance this year, The Birth of a Nation was a runaway hit, garnering not only awards and critical praise, but a distribution deal with Fox Searchlight for $17.5...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks BNAT16, Scott's EXODUS and Rock's TOP FIVE
Special on-location report from Austin's famed Drafthouse movie theatre, home once again to the lunacy that is Butt-Numb-a-Thon. Almost 30 hours in that place, watching 13 features and other flicks, it made for a hell of a day, and a...
Review: TOP FIVE, Chris Rock's Very Funny And Most Personal Film Yet
Rude, crude, and lewd as it is, Top Five is still a big step forward for Chris Rock as a filmmaker. In essence, that's because it more closely resembles his brilliant stand-up shows, where he gets on a roll and...
Weinberg Reviews IN OUR NATURE, a Low-Key Character Film That Rings True
Sometimes you're just in the mood for a low-budget, four-character indie film in which a few flawed but very relatable folks deal with their low-key stresses, concerns, and issues in a way that, at the very least, rings true and,...