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"Leaching" Wins Best Trailer at HEI Awards
"The Leaching" wins Best Trailer at HEI Awards Congratulations to Escape Studios' tutor Lee Caller whose short tea...
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OUR AMERICAN FAMILY (2022)
Portrait of a family in crisis. This is a look at the Geraghty family who are dealing with multiple members with substance abuse. This ...
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Kaepernick and America (2022) opens Friday 9/2
A look at Colin Kaepernick and his influence on America in the aftermath of his refusal to stand for the National Anthem. I have always su...
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Liz Whittemore on The Cathedral (2022) opens Friday
An only child’s account of an American family’s rise and fall over two decades. Fascinatingly stylized look at the memories that compr...
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Brief thoughts on Licorice Pizza and House of Gucci
Two 2021 Oscar hopeful films hat left me scratching my head LICORICE PIZZA has me wondering what people see in it. Paul Thomas Anderson‘s...
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Rageaholic (2022) is a must see.
A loose canon cop is sent to Texas in order to get treatment for his violent tendencies. When he returns he finds the city has changed. S...
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13 Lives (2022)
13 LIVES is Ron Howard’s version of the rescue of 13 members of a football team in Thailand when a sudden heavy rain storm flooded the ...
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Low Life (2022)
Be ready to hold your head in your hands because LOW LIFE is going to mess you up. The plot follows a You Tuber who has made a name for hi...
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GHOSTLIGHT (2022)
Big city reporter comes home for her father’s funeral and ends up obsessed with an audio recording of him talking about the strange lights...
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Alienoid (2022)
One of the most anticipated films for this year’s New York Asian and Fantasia film festival was not available for screening unless you we...
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Here Be Dragons (2022) Cinequest Film Fest 2022
David Locke is a former UN Peacekeeper turned Crimes Against Humanity investigator gets a visit from his past. An old acquaintance shows u...
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"Stellar Rescue" Wins Best Director at Halicarnassus
Stellar Rescue Best Director at Halicarnassus Festival. Congratulations to the makers of " The Stellar Rescue " , whi...
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BREAKING (2022) opens Friday
This is a repost of a review that ran during out coverage of Sundance when the film was called 892. John Boyega firmly becomes the leadi...
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Nightcap 8/21/22- not much to see here
This is just a few quick random notes September is looking to be coverage of the following festivals TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ...
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Costa Brava, Lebanon (2022)
Family moves from Beirut to the country to get away from the pollution and corruption of the big city, only to find the government has ...
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Up Periscope (1959)
Based on a novel and having a plot similar to Destination Tokyo, Up Periscope is the story of a navy frogman (James Garner) who is task...
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DASH (2022) Cinequest 2022
DASH is a single take car ride where a ride share drive with lots of troubles has to navigate multiple customers, many more lovers and s...
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Squeal (2022)
While on a trip to Eastern Europe a man, who doesn’t speak the language ends up chained with the pigs by a pig farmer. As he tries to ...
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DIstress Signals (2022) Popcorn Frights 2022
Caroline is a young woman who wakes up at the bottom of a cliff in the woods. She had been camping with a friend and somehow ended up a ba...
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Immaculate Room (2022)
As part of an experiment a couple is to stay in a huge, largely barren, and completely white room for 40 days. If they last the whole tim...
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Kili Big (2021) opens today
KILI BIG A group of plus sized women decide to train and go to Africa and mountain climb. This is good story that probably would have be...
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The Runner (2022)
Aiden is a rich high school kid who is into running and drugs. After his mother turns him into the cops he is forced by the police to wor...
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Louis Chevis Animator at Pop Paper City
Louis Chevis Many congratulations to Escapee Louis Chevis who has recently joined Aardman Animation 's "Pop Paper City&...
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The Territory (2022) opens Friday
Get ready to get pissed off as we watch how the indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people are slowly being squeezed out and hunted by people lookin...
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Elsa (2022) Hollyshorts 2022
Portrait of Elsa Sjunneson a deafblind woman who is also a fencer, an essayiest, a speculative fiction writer, a comic book writer and sev...
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Nightcap 8/14/22 Random stuff coming up....
There was supposed to be a piece last Sunday night but the subject- the lack of films for August got sidelined when I got flooded with fi...
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"Sweet Heart" Wins Best VFX at Future of Film Fest
" Sweet Heart " Best VFX at the Future of Film Awards. Congratulations to the makers of " Sweet Heart " , wh...
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BORN OF WOMAN collection From Fantasia 2022
Here are some brief thoughts on the films that played as part of the BORN OF WOMAN collection at Fantasia 2022 LILY’S MIRROR A woman wh...
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Cinematography and Lighting with Clem Gharini
Cinematography and Lighting starts again on September 19th; one of a number of mini-modules taken by all our first year students. Taught ...
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