Category: Movie
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Jamie Foxx Brings Swagger To The Courtroom In “The Burial”
As legal dramas go, we rarely see an African-American actor in the lead role. “The Burial” has several.
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“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” And Struggling With Grief
The highly anticipated Marvel superhero movie of the year displays important themes of loss, loneliness, and change.
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I Was a “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma”
If you identify as part of the queer community, or if you love old school slasher flicks, you will love this movie.
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Escape White Suburbia in “The Gates”
The Gates, John Burr’s new thriller film, is a disturbingly realistic portrayal of three Black twenty-somethings – Derek (Mason Gooding), Kevin (Algee Smith), and Tyon (Keith Powers), as they accidentally take a wrong turn into a gated community that’s more like a modern-day sundown town. The three friends witness a variety of crimes in their…
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It’s Theater VS Cancer in “Don’t Say Good Luck”
Netflix’s new comedy drama, Don’t Say Good Luck, is a heartwarming tearjerker as well as a love letter to the transformative power of being a theater kid. Directed by Julia Hart, Don’t Say Good Luck follows Sophie (Sunny Sandler), a theater kid who finally gets the lead role in her school’s production of Waitress -…
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Autonomy, Motherhood, and Deaf Culture in “Deaf” (2025)
In Deaf, the Spanish director Eva Libertad explores pregnancy and motherhood from the perspective of a deaf woman. Her movie examines how the world imposes the notion of disability on her main character while she actually does not feel disabled herself.
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My Movie Starring Paul Dano: A Hilarious Fever Dream With or Without Paul Dano
Unrelentingly funny, highly entertaining, and ridiculously absurd, My Movie Starring Paul Dano is, according to its creator, Joe Bartone, a tribute to the willful ignorance of independent filmmaking found in the late ’70s in New York City. Developed through open discussions with the cast at the reading table, the mockumentary follows a delusional and fame-starved…
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‘Bruiser’ Is A Gut Punch To The Soul
‘Bruiser’ is an intense drama that explores unresolved childhood trauma and how it can affect the people around us.
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I Wouldn’t Recommend “The Last House” If It Was The Last Movie On Earth
The film is bogged down with one-off rain monster threats that always come to a quick and undramatic end
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Leviticus (2026) Delivers a Braver Kind of Romantic Horror
Adrian Chiarella’s Leviticus is a beautiful, poignant, enraging, gut-wrenching, and heartbreaking film about the trauma and harm conversion therapy inflicts on young queer people. Even though its classification as horror holds, the emotional bond between the two main characters, Naim and Ryan, elevates the story into a realistic romantic drama on par with Eternal Sunshine…