Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: At Just 90 Minutes, Awake Rushes from a Solid Thriller to a Missed Narrative Opportunity

Awake

The latest from director Mark Raso (Kodachrome) is a science-fiction thriller with a promising concept and not nearly enough follow-through. Awake is about a world in which, one day, everything […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: An Exercise in Endurance, The Painted Bird Chronicles a Brutal Loss of Innocence

The Painted Bird

Who among us hasn’t wanted to watch the great Udo Kier pluck out another man’s eyeballs with a spoon in a jealous rage, shot in glorious black-and-white 35mm? I’m guessing […]

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