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SXSW 2022 Review: Radical Honesty

I can't say much about dating. I've never been on a date, so I have no experience. However, watching movies ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart

For many people, they were raised learning that we should be thinking more than feeling in our everyday lives and ...
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TIFF 2020 Review: Violation Mixes Heavy-Handed Symbolism with Harrowing Trauma

When Violation first opens, it shows a wolf observing its dying prey. Accompanied by an ominous score, the opening sequence provides a ...
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AFI Fest 2019 Review: The Apollo

Roger Ross Williams's The Apollo opens with a performance in progress as Joe Morton reads to an audience at the theater and ...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2019 Review: Burning Cane Is a Visceral yet Rhythmic Directing Debut

The Devil may not be an enemy that can be seen at first glance. However, he can still take many ...
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The 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Four

The last day started with my first 9 am block viewing.  While I was tempted to sleep in, I couldn't ...
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The 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three

Day Three started with what turned out to be my favorite film of the festival, Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).  ...
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The 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Two

My first full day started with one of my all-time favorite actors Gary Cooper starring in Love in the Afternoon ...
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The 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One

The festival is held over four days and spread out between the TCL Chinese Theater, the Chinese Multiplex, the Egyptian ...
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LAFF 2018 Review: Stuntman

One of the biggest stars of the 1970s was daredevil Evel Knievel, who made a living risking life and limb ...
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NYFF 2018 Review: Roma Is Flawlessly Transcendent

The best word that can be used to describe Roma is that it is transcendent. It is a transcendent piece ...
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LAFF 2018 Review: The Great Buster: A Celebration

Director Peter Bogdanovich pays tribute to the life and work of Buster Keaton in this biographical documentary about one of ...
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LAFF 2018 Review: Making Montgomery Clift

Co-created by Hillary Demmon and Robert Clift, the actor's youngest nephew and son of his brother Brooks, Making Montgomery Clift ...
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2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Four

The last day of the festival is always started with a mix of emotions, sadness that it is almost over ...
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2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three

One of my most anticipated films started day three with Bullitt (1968). This is a movie I am always surprised ...
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2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Two

The second day of the festival started with the world premiere restoration of My Brilliant Career (1979) since it features ...
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2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Two

The second day of the festival started with the world premiere restoration of My Brilliant Career (1979) since it features ...
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2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One

Each year, I seem to be more and more excited when my press credentials are approved for the Turner Classic ...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2018 Review: Cargo Is a Powerful Zombie Drama

When it comes to films depicting the zombie apocalypse, we see the same repetitive formula: Survivors must fight for their ...
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My (Tentative) 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Schedule

Although I am fortunate enough to attend both events, I am disappointed that CinemaCon and TCM Classic Film Festival (TCMFF) ...
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2017 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Four

The last day. It is always with mixed emotions when I look at the schedule for the final day. Film ...
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2017 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three

One of my most anticipated events was The Last Picture Show (1971) with director Peter Bogdanovich in attendance. While it ...
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2017 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One and Two

Day One I was hoping to arrive in time to start the festival with the tribute to Robert Osborne but ...
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My Most Anticipated at the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival

One of the things I look forward to most every year is the TCM Classic Film Festival. It is a ...
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2016 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Four

Heading into the last day, I was already starting to feel sad that it was almost over. No matter how ...
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2016 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three

I decided to sleep in to prepare for another big day ahead since there wasn't anything that I really wanted ...
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2016 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One and Two

Each year as I am heading home from the TCM Classic Film Festival, I am sure that the next year ...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2015 Review: The Overnight Is Quasi-Porn Without the Money Shot

It's been two days since I saw The Overnight and I'm still not quite sure what to make of it. ...
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2015 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three and Four

Saturday morning, I opted to sleep in and miss The Man Who Would be King (1975) to see So Dear ...
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2015 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One and Two

The 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival was the best one I have attended.  The previous four festivals were fantastic but ...
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It’s A Wrap: The 2014 Humphrey Bogart Film Festival

Humphrey Bogart Estate and Key Largo Chamber of Commerce Announce Creation of Humphrey Bogart Film Festival; Fans Can Help Select ...
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2014 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three and Four

Day Three Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) had me up and raring to go for Day Three.  Anything starring ...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2014: Thelma Schoonmaker Reveals the Secrets Behind Raging Bull

A film editor's film editor, Martin Scorsese collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker focused just on Raging Bull for her master class at ...
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2014 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One and Two

The 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival was my fourth and favorite. It may have been the festival programming or the ...
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My 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival Journal, Part Two

My Saturday started off with a bit of nostalgia at “Bugs Bunny's 75th Birthday Bash”.  Film critic Leonard Maltin and ...
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My 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival Journal, Part One

As the fourth annual TCM Classic Film Festival was approaching, I was filled with anticipation as I made my top ...
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What I Must See at the 2013 TCM Film Festival

As spring approaches, one of the things I look forward to with high anticipation is the TCM Classic Film Festival. ...
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AFI Fest 2012 Review: The Central Park Five: One the Most Important Films of the Year

Based on her book The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding, Sara Burns, her husband David McMahon, ...
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Serenity and Nathan Fillion Close 2012 Hero Complex Film Festival

For those not in the know, Hero Complex is a website that covers the pop-culture beat with a focus on ...
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Reporting on the 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival: Day 3 and 4

My longest day of the festival appropriately started with The Longest Day (1962), a star-studded World War II action film ...
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Reporting on the 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival: Day 1 and 2

The 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival returned to Hollywood from April 12th through April 15th for their third edition. I ...
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The TCM Classic Film Festival 2011: Presenting Music and the Movies

The 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival returned to Hollywood Blvd for its second run presenting films well-known "Essentials" and obscure ...
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The TCM Classic Film Festival 2010: A Festival Is Born

No longer available online, this review is being re-published. The inaugural TCM Classic Film Festival brought the cable channel to ...
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