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Filmmaker John Lee Hancock wrote the first draft of The Little Things way back in 1993, originally writing it for Spielberg to direct...

For a while, a large majority of the horror genre went through a bit of a lul-phase. An endless wave flooded our peripheral with sexy...

There’s a quiet devastation that lingers beneath the surface of Identifying Features. It softly rumbles, dislodging the dirt and sand...

A mockumentary is a fictionalized narrative in the guise of a fake documentary setting, often used as a great output for satire. When...

2020 was filled with films and TV shows that allowed us to escape the confines of lockdowns and other restrictions all thanks to the...

Florida’s retiree population is huge. In a 2018 census, an estimated 4.9 million people are retirees, and in The Villages, America’s...

Stardust follows David Bowie’s US tour of his third album The Man Who Sold the World, and how it supposedly led to him reinventing...

One Night In Miami is a fictional account of a real night - four iconic African American figures meet, discuss and challenge their parts...

News of the World is a film I really wanted to like, nay, love. It had the makings of something really great. A great lead, a great...

This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection is a spiritual experience. It pulls you out from your surroundings and traps you within the...

On December 6th, 1989, a gunman entered an engineering class at the École Polytechnique. He singled out the nine women in a classroom and...

Oscar is a Sicilian native who spends his days under the hot Sicilian sun, scouring the landscape for scrap metal with his brother and...

Modern Populism has given rise to some of the most dangerous politicians in the current political climate. These individuals sought to...

We have been blessed with many great onscreen bromances - Maverick and Iceman, Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar, Butch Cassidy and The...

Original Review Date: 25 November 2020 Richard Linklater has always been a filmmaker fascinated with the concept of time through an...

Original Review Date: 7 October 2020 What makes a documentary a documentary? Is it on the basis that what is being documented and...

Original Review Date: 20 October 2020 2020 has been challenging to say the least. Right now, more than ever, we have been finding ways to...

Original Review Date: 2 September 2020 Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (2019) is a film that is as brilliantly odd as its title suggests, yet it is...

Original Review Date: 18 August 2020 Boys State (2020) is a documentary that takes place in Texas where an exercise in local and...

Original Review Date: 22 July 2020 Arthur Agee and William Gates were young inner-city kids from Chicago filled with dreams and...