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Before social media, most of us weren’t as constantly worried about our public image or “brand.” We’d go to school or work more to function…
In The Shift, an average guy named Kevin (Kristoffer Polaha) finds himself in a world he barely recognizes, run by the mysterious Benefactor (Neal McDonough),…
An 80-minute juggernaut of existential tumult, composer Gustav Mahler’s second symphony stems from humankind’s eternal pursuit of purpose amid the trials and tribulations of being.…
I know jack shit about contemporary Indian culture and I'm sure as shit not going to pretend I learned anything important from Tiger 3. That's…
The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PӦFF) runs in-person in Tallinn, Estonia, from November 3 to 19. Joshua Polanski will be reviewing for Midwest Film…
One of the best movies writer-director Eli Roth ever made was only 3 minutes long. Thanksgiving started as a fake trailer sandwiched between Robert Rodriguez’s…
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Lasciate ogne speranza, voi chi'intrate. How did it come to this? At the height of his power in Hollywood in 1999, Adam Sandler founded his…
The lurid past at the haunted heart of May December, in theaters tomorrow and streaming Dec. 1 on Netflix, dates back to a time when…
Escape from Extinction is an informational documentary produced by American Humane, a conservation organization with a nearly 150-year history of positively influencing the treatment of…
Earlier this week, I wrote a pretty positive review of The Marvels, the film that may go down in history as Marvel’s creative and financial nadir.…
In Meru, Free Solo and 2021’s The Rescue, Oscar-winning filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi excelled at drawing body-tightening tension from true-life feats of…
The stripped-down title of The Killer (now playing in select cinemas and streaming on Netflix starting November 10) gives you a pretty clear idea of…