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January 18, 2019 0

THE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK: Henry Dunham’s Thriller Locks Us In With Brilliant Tension

Shot in Dallas, Texas, Henry Dunham’s THE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK feels both like a real life news story that just happened yet and a cautionary tale with just the right amount of hope that it can be avoided. Bringing to mind the work of David Mamet and Jeremy Saulnier, the tense thriller follows a

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October 10, 2018 0

CLOSE ENEMIES: Fantastic Fest Review and Interview with Director David Oelhoffen

SYNOPSIS: Born and raised in a suburb ridden by drug trafficking, Driss and Manuel were like brothers. As adults, they have gone down exactly the opposite path: Manuel chose to embrace this thug life, while Driss completely rejected it and became a cop. When Manuel’s biggest deal goes terribly wrong, the two men meet again

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September 25, 2018 0

Fantastic Fest 2018 Interview: MADAM YANKELOVA’S FINE LITERATURE CLUB, a bedtime story for the broken hearted.

Worst date ever? How about being invited to a book club by an attractive woman only to be rated on your physical attractiveness and then murdered and ground up into sausage. In Guilhad Emilio Schenker’s new thriller, MADAM YANKELOVA’S FINE LITERATURE CLUB, making its international premiere at Fantastic Fest, Sophie (Keren Mor) has been stuck

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September 23, 2018 0

Fantastic Fest 2018: HOLD THE DARK Delivers The Justice Of The Cold Dark North

I should really stop being surprised when Jeremy Saulnier surprises me. In his fourth feature, his third film that I would have to describe as pure genius, director Jeremy Saulnier once again takes a perfect script from Macon Blair and turns it into cinematic gold. Despite being based on a book, albeit one I've never

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September 22, 2018 0

Fantastic Fest 2018: THE WIND and Lost Fear Of The American Prairie

By Bears Rebecca Fonte As members of the modern world we often forget that America is a landscape dominated by wide open spaces. There was a time that people lived in places where they could go months at a time without seeing another face or at least another face outside of their own marriage. If

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October 23, 2021 0

Jadyn Wong On Her Role “Near Futre” Time travel Romance NEEDLE IN A TIMESTACK

Interview by Paul Salfen In theaters and On Demand Now NEEDLE IN A TIMESTACK is written and directed by Oscar winner JOHN RIDLEY (12 Years a Slave, Jimi: All Is by My Side), and based on the short story of the same name by Robert Silverberg. The film stars Oscar nominee LESLIE ODOM JR (One
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October 23, 2021 0

DUNE Movie Minute Review

Review by Paul Salfen Click arrow bottom left of video for review Dune is a 2021 American epic science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve with a screenplay by Jon Spaihts, Villeneuve, and Eric Roth. It is the first of a planned two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert,
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October 22, 2021 0

Austin Film Festival: Writer, Director Fabio Frey, Pedro Correa and Raymond Cruz On MY DEAD DAD

Interview by Paul Salfen In this charming coming-of-age drama, young burnout Lucas (Pedro Correa) is notified that his estranged father has passed away. Relieved to never have to hear about him again, Lucas learns that his father left him the responsibility of managing an apartment complex in Los Angeles. Determined to sell off the complex
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October 22, 2021 0

Writer/Illustrator Ryan T. Higgins: NORMAN DIDN’T DO IT (YES HE DID) And THANKS FOR NOTHING (Interview)

Interview by Paul Salfen Ryan T. Higgins is the author and illustrator of the #1 New York Times best-selling We Don't Eat Our Classmates; the New York Times best-selling Mother Bruce, which received the E. B. White Read Aloud Award and the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Honor; Hotel Bruce; BE QUIET!; Bruce's Big Move; and
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