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Blu-ray Review: ‘Zero Contact’ – Featuring Sir Anthony Hopkins
This is a strange entry in Anthony Hopkins' distinguished filmography. But we do get to hear him play piano at least.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’
Here we go again. Another mind-numbing 'Wizarding World' adventure that attempts to continuing milking the already-dry Harry Potter cash cow. Sans Johnny Depp.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘Dual’ (2022) Starring Karen Gillan
This oddly flat sci-fi genre-bender explores issues of identity after Sarah, played by Karen Gillan, has herself cloned.
Read More »Anthem Film Review: ‘Beyond Homeless: Finding Hope’
Homelessness is a crisis. The film 'Beyond Homeless: Finding Hope' examines multiple approaches to helping unhoused people.
Read More »Anthem Film Review: ‘Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in his Own Words’ Top Award Winner
Clarence Thomas exemplifies the American dream. Born into poverty, abandoned by his father, through hard work and dedication, he rose to one of the highest offices in the land.
Read More »Tribeca Film Festival Review: ‘Endangered’
'Endangered' is a documentary about the fragility of press freedom in democracies which are shifting toward dictatorships.
Read More »Tribeca Film Festival Reviews: ‘Attachment’ and ‘A Wounded Fawn’
Two horror films turn the genre upside down and tweak gender stereotypes in the service of horror.
Read More »Tribeca Film Festival Review: ‘A Rising Fury,’ Ukraine at War
Through the testimony of a Ukrainian soldier, a documentary blows the whistle on Putin's long-range plans to invade Ukraine.
Read More »Tribeca Film Festival Review: ”We Might as Well be Dead’
'We Might as Well be Dead' focuses on a dystopian world in a Tower community that lives by strict rules and evicts those who violate them
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