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Reviews: CHEE$E from SXSW 2022

March 18, 2022

Final Rating: 3.5/5 The Trinbagonian filmmaker Damian Marcano has previously made one feature film that showcased his homeland back in 2013 but has since…

Reviews: The Great Beauty

March 5, 2022

This review was originally published on February 25th, 2014 on Live in Limbo. Final Rating: 4/5 Films are made for a variety of reasons,…

Reviews: Patriots Day

March 3, 2022

This review was originally published on January 13th, 2017 on Live in Limbo. Final Rating: 3/5 How do you talk critically about a film…

Reviews: Hellbender

February 21, 2022

Final Rating: 3.5/5 Hellbender is the 6th film released by Wonder Wheel Productions, a horror movie company run by the aptly named Adams family….

Reviews: Charli XCX: Alone Together

January 31, 2022

Final rating: 2/5 For fans of pop music, Charli XCX is either someone you can only relate to the ICONA POP song “I Love…

Reviews: Belfast from VIFF 2021

October 13, 2021

Final Rating: 5/5 Despite seeming like the epitome of British thespianism, the films writer and director, Kenneth Branagh was actually born in Northern Ireland,…

Reviews: Red Rocket from VIFF 2021

October 11, 2021

Final Rating: 4.5/5 Red Rocket starts with a man sleeping on a coach bus as it pulls into a small town. He has dark…

Reviews: Benediction for VIFF 2021

October 7, 2021

Final Rating: 4/5 Siegfried Sassoon was one of the most successful poets in England in the early twentieth century, marked by his decision to…

Reviews: Time from VIFF 2021

October 6, 2021

Final Rating: 2.5/5 In the debut film from Hong Kong director Ricky Ko, we get a look how the elderly are treated after having…

Reviews: All My Puny Sorrows From VIFF 2021

October 4, 2021

Final Rating: 4/5 Elfreida and Yolanda are two sisters who are carrying a lot of weight on their shoulders. Yoli is in her mid-thirties,…