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Continue reading →: Predictions: BAFTA, SAG (Actor Awards), PGA, WGA Awards WinnersWe are so close to the Oscars at this point, I can almost taste it, and it tastes like fumes because this season is so damn long. The pros to having a long wait between nominations and winners? Enough time to properly plan my Oscar Party menu and get my…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: “Carousel”, Pine and Slate Excel in Rachel Lambert’s Reserved Rom-DramRachel Lambert made a Sundance splash back in 2023 with her Daisy Ridley-starring Sometimes I Think About Dying. That charming oddball of a film found bountiful sweetness in a quirky premise about an even quirkier lead character, but due to Lambert’s affectionate and dream-like direction and Ridley’s earnest performance, both…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: “Rock Springs” a Confused, Undercooked Historical HorrorNOTE: Some spoilers regarding a tragic historical event within the film’s plot are discussed in this review. It’s easy to say that when you’ve seen one horror film about grief, you’ve seen them all, but that isn’t necessarily true. Billions of people around the world experience grief in their own…
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Continue reading →: Review: “Islands”, Sam Riley Finds Family in Sun-kissed Psuedo-Hitchcockian ThrillerThe first image we get of Tom (Sam Riley) is that of him waking up on a beach, dirty, disoriented, and alone. At this point, we probably know about as much about what Tom was up to that night as he does. In fact, the mere casting of Riley in…
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Continue reading →: Review: “Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die” Is A Morbid, Raucous, Overstuffed Warning of the AI RevolutionYou don’t have to like all of this films, but you can’t call Gore Verbinski a “lazy” filmmaker. In fact, the largest problem Verbinski runs into is that he doesn’t know when to reign anything in and has no interest in doing so, which usually leads to his often-fascinating ideas…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: “Josephine”, Beth De Araújo’s Film is an Oppressive, But Harrowing, Challenging Cautionary TaleParenting is scary even before children exit the womb with the work it takes to ensure a safe arrival, as well as the first few months after birth, making sure their small bodies are functioning properly. If no major health issues occur, and your child grows to be an independent,…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: “Union County”, Will Poulter Quietly Shines in Adam Meeks’ Authentic Portrayal of Opioid Recovery“You haven’t caused any problems… yet.” A simple, but damning reminder Cody Parsons (Will Poulter) receives during one of his assessments early in the new debut film by Adam Meeks, based on his 2020 short film. It’s true that Cody feels healthy, capable, and confident while taking part in his…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: “Chasing Summer”, Josephine Decker Proves to Be an Odd Directorial Fit for Nostalgic Summer RomanceJamie’s life is as much a natural disaster as the ones she helped clean up, at least that’s how it feels in her mind. Dumped from her job working for Helpers at Home, a tornado relief program that provides humanitarian aid to disaster-torn areas, and unceremoniously dumped by her now-ex…
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Continue reading →: Review: “Send Help”, Sam Raimi’s Gleefully Gross Return to Horror Led By a Revelatory Rachel McAdamsYou can take the Raimi out of the horror, but you can’t take the horror out of the Raimi. It’s true, as one of our most diverse filmmakers, old Sam has deviated towards many different genres in his career (only his 1990s period a hard pivot from the stuff that…
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Continue reading →: 2025: Personal AwardsAs the whirlwind year of 2025 has come to an end and we continue to tackle the politically dark storm that is now 2026 with no end in sight, let’s just take a deep breath and focus on a healthy distraction: movies. Although that isn’t to say the movies themselves…
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EDITOR, SITE WRITER
Jakob Kolness
Minnesota Film Critics Association Member. Graduate of Film Studies, writer, novelist, filmmaker.
CURRENT 2027 OSCAR PREDICTIONS
“All of A Sudden”
“Behemoth!”
“Digger”
“Dune Part III”
“Fjord”
“The Odyssey”
“A Place in Hell”
“Project Hail Mary”
“Untitled Damien Chazelle Film”
“Untitled Jesse Eisenberg Musical”
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