Sound of Metal (2019 – dir. Darius Marder): Philadelphia Film Festival review
A slower, quieter movie than the marketing would have you believe, but that’s ultimately a good thing
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Gunda (2020 – dir. Victor Kosakovkiy): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Who knew seeing an adolescent pig pee for a very, very long time could be such high art
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Shakespeare in Clark Park revisits its theater for Every Everyman
A movie about the socially distanced Pageant Wagon that toured West Philly this Fall.
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Banksy Most Wanted (2020 – dir. Seamus Haley, Laurent Richard, Aurélia Rouvier): Philadelphia Film Festival review
We all know who Banksy is, it’s just that we don’t know who, specifically, Banksy is.
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Come Play (dir. Jacob Chase): Film review
Next in a long line of “horror short gets expanded to feature length” projects
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Kubrick by Kubrick (2020 – dir. Gregory Monro): Philadelphia Film Festival review
A mysterious figure, top to bottom, Kubrick is a man from another time.
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Jumbo (2020 – dir. Zoé Wittick): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Jumbo manages to accurately depict the feeling of romance as well as accurately describe the feeling of fetishization.
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Miracle Fishing (2020 – dir. Miles Hargrove & Christopher Birge): Philadelphia Film Festival review
An intense story that resembles what we see in a standard thriller, but being real life
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Looking Back: An early Pig Iron production
ames Joyce is Dead And So Is Paris was presented at Christ Church Annex in Old City in 2003. It was something else!
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New Order (2020 – dir. Michel Franco): Philadelphia Film Festival review
This movie is going to upset a lot of people. Good.
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Apples (2020 – dir. Christos Nikou): Philadelphia Film Festival review
A mostly quiet tale, carried by the human performances and minimalist plot
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Lightning Rod Special presents SUPERHOST, a Halloween audio thriller
Listening party on October 27th and available for streaming on Lightning Rod Special’s website starting October 28th
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White Lie (2019 – dir. Yonah Lewis & Calvin Thomas): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Ever meet one of those people who, no matter what the situation, cannot help but lie about even the tiniest things?
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (dir. Jason Woliner): Moviefilm review
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is hilarious to the point of incapacitation.
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Oil Painting: What Should a Beginner Start With
One of the things that bind people and brings them together is art. The passion of emotions and imagery is a by-product of association with art or love for any artform.
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A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (1948): Chosen by Committee episode 27
You may have of this one.
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State of the Union by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay (1946): Chosen by Committee episode 26
A timely episode for election season, this week’s episode considers the politically vacant yet dramatically sound State of the Union
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Looking Back: Two works by Thaddeus Phillips
In today’s edition of my look back on theater from years past, I remember two Thaddeus Phillips works from 2015 and 2017: Alias Ellis Mackenzie and A Billion Nights on Earth.
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Death Drop Gorgeous (dir. Michael Ahern, Christopher Dale, Brandon Perras): Salem Horror Festival capsule review
Drop Dead Gorgeous takes the shiny, candy-colored world of drag and drenches it with gallons of blood
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Bleed With Me (dir. Amelia Moses): Salem Horror Festival capsule review
Writer/director Amelia Moses proves herself a talent to watch with this moody tale of mistrust
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