Tag: Incluvie
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‘Cherry’ Review: The Truth About Addiction
DISCLAIMER: This review contains spoilers. TW: extensive graphic drug abuse, disturbing and violent images, mentions of suicide, death, and depictions of PTSD. _______ After hitting it big in the MCU, the Russo brothers (Anthony and Joe) and Tom Holland team up for a very different collaboration. Cherry is a semi-autobiographical take on Nico Walker’s life. The film is divided into seven separate chapters and follows…
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‘Chaos Walking’ Review: The Good and the Bad
Doug Liman’s latest feature comes after a strenuous four years in the making. Based on the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness, the film adapts the first book of the series, The Knife of Never Letting Go. As a fan of the books, I was curious to see how the story would transpire on the big screen.…
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‘Raya and the Last Dragon is a Disney Masterpiece
The story is a moving sentiment of letting go of the past and putting trust and faith into others. Though you come into this world alone, surrounding yourself with others that support you and want to help is the greatest gift life could ever give.
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‘Monsoon’ Review: Hazy Memories of Home
A moving tale, Monsoon follows Kit (Henry Golding) as he returns home to Saigon, Vietnam. After his family fled to England after the Vietnam war when he was six, Kit hasn’t looked back. However, after the loss of both of his parents, Kit heads back to Saigon thirty years later not only to scatter their ashes, but…
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Happy Passover! Jewish Representation in Unorthodox
Mini-Series Unorthodox gives audiences a glimpse into the Orthodox Jewish community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We get to specifically follow a young woman named Ester Shapiro who, after being married off and forced to procreate with a man she doesn’t love, flees the only home she has ever known to start a new life in Berlin.…
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“Vivarium” Presents Go-Nowhere Parenting
By now we all have a good sense of what it’s like to be trapped at home indefinitely. Will we be allowed out by June? August? The year 2021? Or are we like a country full of tigers, doomed to live out our days in captivity? As the days of quarantine and social isolation turn…
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Throw a Goat For “Trolls: World Tour”
If you’re quarantined with kids — or if you’re a kid at heart who enjoys Dreamworks animation movies — Trolls: World Tour (2020, Prime Video, Vudu, Fandango) is a sweet, singalong distraction with several positive messages. You don’t need to have seen the first Trolls movie to enjoy this one, but if you have seen…
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“Bury Your Gays” Trope in TV and How “Wynonna Earp” Defies it
I think that the happiness and survival of “Wynonna Earp”’s LGBTQ+ characters is incredibly refreshing in contrast to the prevalence of queer suffering and death in other television.
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“Small Talk”: An Incluvie Film Festival Review
The most impressive aspect of this film is the honest and natural performances given by the on-screen duo.
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Incluvie Film Festival Review of ‘Sleep No More’
This short film was an overall creative success.