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‘Record of Ragnarok’ Season One Review and Recap – A Bold Take on Gods vs Mortals

Throughout the history of mankind, there have been several instances where humans have found themselves facing a lot of peculiar situations. As per mythology, crime and corruption reached levels that even the gods had to come down to the planet to restore balance, and that’s what is about to happen …

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Book Review: ‘New Moon’ by Stephenie Meyer

Twenty years ago, Stephenie Meyer released Twilight and threw a bomb into the teen romance scene. Twilight could have been the end of the story, but honestly, there were some unanswered questions that readers needed answered, so less than a year later, she released New Moon and created more questions than answers. [Warning: …

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‘Mosquitos’ Film Review: A Disappointing Outing from Nicole and Valentina Bertani

In their first directorial effort as a directing duo, Nicole and Valentina Bertani debut at the Concorso Internazionale of the Locarno Film Festival with Mosquitoes (Le Bambine). In 2022, Valentina screened her first film, The Crown Shyness (La timidezza delle chiome) at the Giornate degli Autori of the Venice Film …

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‘Human Resource’ Film Review: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s Return to Realism Reckons With Personal Agency in a Harsh World

Playing in the Orizzonti competition program at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival, Thai director and screenwriter Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s latest vision Human Resource doubles as an intimate character study and a meditative portrait of contemporary Thai life mapped through the soul-sapping mechanics of corporate grind, a kind of a white-collar …

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Before The Naked Gun, ‘Police Squad!’ Was on the Case (Review)

The filmmaking trio of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker (better known as Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker or ZAZ) made their mark on cinema early in their careers.  They began with The Kentucky Fried Movie, an anthology film of sketch comedy that did quite well critically and commercially, and …

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‘After the Hunt’ Review: A Reactionary Film from Luca Guadagnino

No deer longs for the hunter’s arrow, and no art designed to maintain the status quo is ever as good as it thinks it is. Say what you will about Luca Guadagnino, he has made three solid movies in the last eighteen months, a level of career output rarely seen since …

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‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ is Visually Beautiful and Emotionally Deep (Film Review)

I stumbled upon Demon Slayer when it first premiered in America back in 2019, thanks to a friend who was obsessed with anime. While I cut my teeth on series such as Pokémon, Digimon, and Sailor Moon as an adolescent, it had been decades since I actively chose an anime to watch in my …

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‘Nova ‘78’ Film Review: A Prophetic William Burroughs Tribute

Playing out of competition at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival, Nova ‘78, from the directing duo of Aaron Brookner and Rodrigo Areias, functions both as a moving paean to the enduring greatness of eminent writer and iconoclast William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) and an electrifying snapshot of a bygone period of …

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‘Juror #2’ Film Review: Eastwood’s Courtroom Morality Drama For A Simpler Time

Juror #2 could not have come out at a stranger time in world events towards the end of 2024. As a director, Clint Eastwood’s interests have been captured by the contradictions of life and justice in the United States: there are often clear-cut guilty and innocent parties, but who prevails …

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‘The Order’ Movie Review: True Crime Drama Shows Toxic Masculinity’s Extremes

Nicholas Hoult had a theme in 2024. The Order, director Justin Kurzel’s latest dramatic feature based on true events, puts his character in a very similar situation as in Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2. Both Bob Mathews (The Order) and Justin Kemp (Juror #2) are morally compromised men making bad (desperate, …

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‘Ghost Elephants’ Documentary Film Review: Searching for Elephants in Angola

There are other directors who are better, there are others who are more stylish, but there is no director anywhere in the world who is more interesting than Werner Herzog. He was once shot on camera during an interview for British television and actually called the wound “insignificant” as the …

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‘King of the Hill’ Review: It’s Nice to be Nice

The first episode of Mike Judge’s King of the Hill aired just a week after my first husband and I got married. We were big Judge fans from years of Beavis and Butthead, and we thought that this new show looked interesting. I always loved it and appreciated the way that the Hill family cared about one another. A few years ago, I rewatched the first season and was …

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‘God Will Not Help’ Film Review: When Fierce Performances Aren’t Enough

In the following effort for the Croatian director Hana Jušić, she presents God Will Not Help in the Concorso Internazionale of the 2025 Locarno Film Festival. Following her debut at the Venice Film Festival’s Giornate degli Autori with Quit Staring at My Plate, the Croatian author takes a look at the …

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