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Movie Review – Rogers Park (2018)

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Rogers Park, 2018. Directed by Kyle Henry. Starring Sara Sevigny, Antoine McKay, Jonny Mars, Christine Horn, and Carlos Trevino. SYNOPSIS: Two Chicago couples struggle to keep their love alive when secrets and long-simmering resentments rise to the surface. Setting the stage for what’s to come, in an elementary school classroom a young boy and a […]

Movie Review – Half Magic (2018)

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Half Magic, 2018. Written and Directed by Heather Graham Starring Heather Graham, Angela Kinsey, Stephanie Beatriz, Chris D’Elia, Thomas Lennon, Luke Arnold, Molly Shannon, Jason Lewis, Rhea Perlman, and Johnny Knoxville SYNOPSIS: Explores themes of female empowerment through sex, work, and friendship. These women are able to come together through their frustration over male dominance […]

Movie Review – Red Sparrow (2018)

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Red Sparrow, 2018. Directed by Francis Lawrence. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Bill Camp, Joely Richardson, Kristof Konrad, Douglas Hodge, Sergei Polunin, Sakina Jaffrey, Nicole O’Neill, David Z. Miller, Makar Zaporozhskiy, Sasha Frolova, Joel de la Fuente, Thekla Reuten, Sergej Onopko, and Jeremy Irons SYNOPSIS: Ballerina Dominika […]

Exclusive Interview – The women of Mercury in Retorgrade talk the challenges of their roles and relationships

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Robert Kojder chats with Mercury in Retrograde stars Najarra Townsend and Alana Arenas…  Mercury in Retrograde is the second directorial effort from Chicago-based filmmaker Michael Glover Smith and reaches profound messages on relationships; this is aesthetically pleasing, strongly written and directed, superb work with an outstanding ensemble. It’s a must watch for anyone that values relationships and […]

Exclusive Interview – Michael Glover Smith discusses relationships, gender politics, and more for Mercury in Retrograde

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Robert Kojder chats with Mercury in Retrograde director Michael Glover Smith… Mercury in Retrograde is the second directorial effort from Chicago-based filmmaker Michael Glover Smith and reaches profound messages on relationships; this is aesthetically pleasing, strongly written and directed, superb work with an outstanding ensemble. It’s a must watch for anyone that values relationships and the definition […]

Movie Review – Tehran Taboo (2017)

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Tehran Taboo, 2017. Written and Directed by Ali Soozandah. Featuring the voice talents of Elmira Rafizadeh, Bilal Yasar, Arash Marandi, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, Alireza Bayram, Sasan Behroozian, Farhad Abadinejad, Siir Eloglu, Hasan Ali Mete, Roxana Rahnama, Morteza Tavakoli, and Thomas Nash. SYNOPSIS: In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, […]

Movie Review – Black Panther (2018)

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Black Panther, 2018. Directed by Ryan Coogler. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Sterling K. Brown, Florence Kasumba, John Kani, and Andy Serkis. SYNOPSIS: T’Challa, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, […]

Movie Review – Detective Chinatown 2 (2018)

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Detective Chinatown 2, 2018. Written and Directed by Chen Sicheng. Starring Wang Baoqiang, Liu Haoran, Xiao Yang, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Michael Pitt, and Tsumabuki Satoshi. SYNOPSIS: When the case of New York Chinatown godfather Uncle Qi’s missing son turns into a murder investigation, the detective duo Tang and Qin team up again to hunt down […]

Movie Review – Have a Nice Day (2017)

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Have a Nice Day, 2017. Written and Directed by Liu Jian. Featuring the voice talents of Changlong Zhu, Siming Yang, Kai Cao, and Xiaofeng Ma. SYNOPSIS: A city in southern China and a bag containing a million yuan draws several people from diverse backgrounds with different personal motives into a bloody conflict. Money makes the […]

Movie Review – Golden Exits (2018)

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Golden Exits, 2018. Written and Directed by Alex Ross Perry. Starring Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, Chloe Sevigny, Mary-Louise Parker, Jason Schwartzman, Lily Rabe, Craig Butta, Keith Poulson, and Analeigh Tipton. SYNOPSIS: An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad […]