Mini Movie Reviews Archives
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SPECIALish Jessica Watkins
I got a chance to screen Jessica Watkins' comedic feature length documentary ‘SPECIALish’ showing her walk across the United States over the course of 8 months. Punctuated by her standup comedy about her experience at stops in clubs along her way. First off, I admire Jessica for all the walking and camping she did do, because I know for me, I'd be lucky to...
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I AM: 5 Questions for Filmmaker Jerry Hoffmann
I AM synopsis: One day, the withdrawn Noé (Sheri Hagan) finds a motionless android (Melodie Wakivuamina) in the forest, takes it with her and reactivates it. It's the beginning of a strange relationship. Far too late, Noé realizes that the android is about to copy her personality...
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Crop Circle Realities
How can some people believe that humans go out in the middle of the night, where there's no streetlight around and no way to bring that much electricity without someone seeing it, yet managed to create a perfect big complex crop-circle within the hours of darkness... How on earth do they manage and not even a dog awakens to bark? And until this day no one has been caught in the act. Are they so clever to be nearly invisible?...
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Love and Hate in Black and White: MALCOLM & MARIE
The problem being, writer/director Sam Levinson over wrote the dialogue. So many times there would be great points made or arrows slung by either Malcolm (John David Washington) or Marie (Zendaya) and you'd just want them to land and end scene, but it never happened. Instead each time one or the other's soliloquy would go on too long and too much more would be said, which would muddy the brilliance and not give the viewer enough time to process...
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SXSW Online 2021 Coverage
SXSW 2021 (March 16-20) I've always wanted to go to Austin, Texas. for this famed music/movies/networking extravaganza of a Festival and hopefully one day I will get there; but it's so awesome to have a chance to cover it from Philly!
