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‘Carême’ Season 1, Episode 2 Review: Blackmail

What happens throughout this episode is, in the very best sense of the word, adult. Carême’s understanding that people’s motivations and people’s desires do not necessarily reflect their best selves is unknown in American art. But the French are perhaps more capable of acknowledging the gap between their best and …

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‘Carême’ Season 1, Episode 1 Review: The Infernal Machine – Whipped Cream and Other Delights

The sumptuous Carême hits two basic needs for a high-end television series. One is for sex, but the other is rarer in fictional television: food porn. This combination is an absolutely wonderful idea, because god knows our appetite for something good to eat doesn’t always get its due from a …

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‘Chasers’ Pilot Review: A Bold, One-Shot Exploration of Dreams, Love, and Showbiz Struggles

In recent years, there has been a massive influx of movies and TV series that showcase the reality of the entertainment industry and how youngsters navigate the world of showbiz. Most importantly, these titles exhibit how young people navigate through life while trying to achieve something, which makes them raw …

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‘The Studio’ Season 1 Review: An Uproariously Hilarious Love Letter to Hollywood

Movies (or television) about the entertainment industry can prove challenging to produce. In some cases, they can feel like nothing more than a vanity project. Thankfully, stories in that vein, such as The Player and The Larry Sanders Show have proved this formula’s effectiveness with the right talent involved. Thirty-three …

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Interview: Writer and Director Tolga Karaçelik on ‘Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer’

Tolga Karaçelik is a name well known to international audiences and soon to be United States audiences as well. Psycho Killer: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer is a black comedy and the writer/director’s fouth film. It’s his latest after the Sundance-lauded …

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‘Peacock’ Movie Review: Worth Seeing Despite Flaws

Zeitgeisty trends combine in Peacock: how it mocks the vapid wealthy with lives so comfortable they must manufacture problems for themselves is clearly inspired by the work of Ruben Östlund. The problem is that social satire works best with a strong opinion about the behaviour being mocked. Are you teasing …

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‘Freaky Tales’ Review: A Wild, Genre-Blending Tribute to ’80s Filmmaking

I’ve mentioned this countless times throughout my years of film criticism: not every movie needs to be narratively and thematically profound, impacting audiences so deeply with philosophical messages that their lives are forever changed. Cinema is, among many things, entertainment. So, it’s no surprise when films like Freaky Tales emerge, …

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‘Sister Midnight’ Film Review: Domestic Tragicomedy via Genre-bending Horror

Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight seems, upon its opening, to be a quotidian domestic drama. Uma (Radhika Apte) has one key problem taking over her life: she and her new husband, Gobal (Ashok Parthak), are not at all compatible. Those who arranged their marriage failed to account for fundamental differences in …

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‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.’ Movie Review: An Endlessly Charming Coming-Of-Age Delight

In 1970, Judy Blume’s eponymous novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret was published. The book, a grounded curtail pull on teenage sexuality, was met with indignation by certain literary factions of the USA, going as far as banning the book in certain states over its discussion of menstruation …

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‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ Movie Review: A Satire of Social Media

Society’s infatuation with social media has grown and evolved over the years. What started with sites connecting long-distance/old friends (looking at you, Facebook) has morphed into something else. The culture constantly compares itself, making it hard for the younger generation to grow without feeling bad about themselves. Such a methodology …

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‘Corina’ Movie Review: A Mature Directorial Debut by Urzula Barba Hopfner

Cinema represents reality by allowing us to imagine ourselves in situations that may seem far from our daily existence. In her directorial debut, Mexican director Urzula Barba Hopfner envisions the life of Corina (Naian González Norvind), an agoraphobic woman. She has an anxiety disorder that affects her when she is …

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Borderline Movie Review

‘Borderline’ Film Review: Samara Weaving and Ray Nicholson Shine in a Familiar yet Fun Thriller

Samara Weaving has become a recurring presence in horror, thriller, and action flicks with a touch of dark humor. From The Babysitter to Ready or Not, along with Guns Akimbo and Azrael, the Australian actress has cemented herself as a modern-day final girl, embracing roles that balance stylized violence and …

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