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NEW TO HULU! Directed by Sean King O’Grady from a screenplay by Max Booth III, based on his novel of the same name, We Need to Do Something frames its story within the confines of one location. While there have certainly been many horror films that have employed the single-set plot device, this separates itself through

Directed and co-written by Michael Shevloff Mosley: It's Complicated fleshes out the life of Max Mosley as he has to contend with enemies from all corners. Mosley was a racer, lawyer, and president of the governing body of Formula 1, FIA. Yet, since the beginning of his life, Mosley had to separate himself from his father, Oswald

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Filmed in the summer of 2018, Joshua Altman and Bing Liu’s All These Sons puts a heavy focus on the amount of gun violence in the south and west sides of Chicago. While the sheer amount of gun violence is undoubtedly staggering and dense, the filmmakers look at more than just

Justin Price’s Wrong Place, Wrong Time begins with a shoot-out. This opening with the five main characters, while having overbearing music and bland lighting, does give an entertaining start to the story. There is an insane amount of cutting from character to character, but this scene encapsulates the fun that can be found in seeing people get

HOT DOCS FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! A Concerto is a Conversation is a deep look into the bond that composer Kris Bowers has with his 91-year-old grandfather, Horace Bowers Sr. Within the mere 13-minute runtime, directors Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers show Horace Bowers Sr.’s tale of success in a world that puts up constant barriers for

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As the title implies, Still Life in Lodz is set almost entirely in present-day Lodz, Poland, which in the 1940s housed the Lodz Ghetto. Under Nazi occupation, over 40,000 people died there. Before the Nazi occupation, Lodz had a thriving Jewish populace that was forced into the Holocaust, with very few surviving. Director Slawomir Grunberg's documentary doesn't

Victor Nunez’s 1993 coming-of-age film, Ruby in Paradise, is a slower-paced take on the coming-of-age subgenre. There’s a key focus on not just the current events in the movie but also on the deep history of its many characters. One of the biggest themes is learning how to navigate the world as a woman. This thematic

In the midst of writing his newest novel, Dad’s Maybe Book, acclaimed author Tim O’Brien sits down with writer/director Aaron Matthews to talk about his writing process and his views on the world. The War and Peace of Tim O’Brien shows every step in the writer’s journey to finish one last novel, his goodbye to fans that he’s

The Illegal opens in India. Here, it’s shown that the main character, Hassan (Suraj Sharma), will be going off to America to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker. Just getting to the airport is challenging enough, with his father’s heavy disapproval of Hassan’s ambitions, but making do with the minute amount of resources at his

Over the years, there have been countless family-centered rom-coms that never amount to anything aside from a way to kill time. Eric Ustian’s Most Guys Are Losers is just that. It’s an unoriginal slog with very few redeeming qualities. It tells a very simple story that follows a young couple, Sandy (Grace Fulton) and Bo (Michael

The Never List is one of the least inspired films to ever tackle the coming-of-age subgenre. Spawning from an unoriginal script by Ariadne Shaffer, director Michelle Mower offers nothing but unnecessarily crude humor and poorly realized characters. Nothing comes across as exceptional in the slightest. The story has numerous plot developments that clash with each

Creating a story set in a fantastical universe is difficult. There are certain tropes that should be avoided and a greater emphasis on explaining this new world than in films centered in other genres. With that in mind, Trail of Ashes, directed by Arturo Lizardi, hits a number of cliches and does a sloppy job at

Life goes by fast. The memories made by every person will eventually fade until they’re mere fragments of what they used to be. In life, there always seems to be a ticking clock or a checklist of sorts to complete before it’s too late. Whether this checklist was created by oneself or inflicted by the

The camaraderie and sportsmanship of athletics is one that many directors display in their films. It usually offers a safe, escapist type of environment for the viewer to enjoy. Following a by-the-books formula, the sports subgenre engraved itself into the entertainment industry. Plotwise there isn’t much interest when looking at this type of story at

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