REVIEW: Fire of Love [2022]

Curiosity is stronger than fear. World renowned volcanologist couple Katia and Maurice Krafft died on June 3, 1991, 4:15pm Japan time. This isn’t a fact that Fire of Love director Sara Dosa tries to hide. It’s not a mystery that the pair were ultimately killed doing what they had done ever since meeting decades earlier. You cannot do what they did (chase and document volcanic eruptions to study and hopefully understand the science behind their beauty and destructive force) without death inevitably catching up. Dosa and co-writers Shane Boris, Erin…

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REVIEW: Madeline’s Madeline [2018]

This is just a metaphor. One of the worst things you can be told as a child is how brilliant you are. Parents and mentors love to throw this sort of blanket praise out with promises that everything will work out for you without thinking about the ramifications of what such a falsely optimistic indoctrination devoid of realism can wield. How do you cope when failure occurs? How do you handle a response from those you trust similar to: “They’re going to regret their mistake because you are perfect?” Oftentimes…

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Posterized Propaganda July 2011: ‘Pooh’ and Friends Trump ‘Monte Carlo’

“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact that impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats. Oftentimes they fail miserably. Photoshop: the Bad, the Really Bad, and Some Success You see it a lot these days—the dreaded floating head Photoshop hack job. July 2011 is no stranger to the…

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