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Reviews: Hysterical for Hot Docs 2021

May 6, 2021

Final Rating: 2/5 Hysterical tracks the rise in mainstream acceptance of female comedians, from the boundary breaking funny ladies in the 1950’s up to…

Review: Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm for Hot Docs 2021

May 5, 2021

Final Rating: 2/5 In the early 1960’s two Welsh brothers named Kinglsey and Charles Ward bought a reel to reel tape recorder and made…

Reviews: We Are The Thousand for Hot Docs 2021

May 2, 2021

Final Rating: 3/5 Back in 2015, a group of ambitious people in the small Italian town of Cesena, population just under one hundred thousand…

Reviews: Set! for Hot Docs 2021

May 1, 2021

Final Rating: 3/5 Set! Is the brand new mockumentary from legendary writer and director Christopher Guest. It is a spiritual sequel to the 2000…

Reviews: Come Back Anytime for Hot Docs 2021

April 30, 2021

Final Rating: 3.5/5 Director John Daschbach takes us on an inside look at Masamoto “Master” Ueda’s ramen shop in Tokyo, as we are shown…

Reviews: Potato Dreams of America for SXSW 2021

March 22, 2021

Original review found on rachelkh.com. Potato Dreams of America is the tale of two movies: life for sexually confused little Potato (Hersh Powers) growing up…

Reviews: Our Father for SXSW 2021

March 18, 2021

Original review found on rachelkh.com. Sometimes you enjoy the ride of a movie but aren’t quite sure where it took you after it’s over. Our Father was…

Reviews: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

March 17, 2021

Original review found on rachelkh.com. After watching Midsommar (2019) recently, I’ve gone down quite the rabbit hole with folk horror and so I was really excited…

Reviews: Alien on Stage for SXSW 2021

March 17, 2021

Final Rating: 3.5/5 As someone who grew up in community theatre, there is a charm to the imperfection. Budgets are limited, actors are untrained,…

Reviews: Islands for SXSW 2021

March 17, 2021

Original review found on rachelkh.com. Joshua (Rogelio Balagtas) is a man seemingly content with life. He lives at home with his parents, his mom…