REVIEW: Luxor [2020]

How do we conquer our inner demons? After spending two decades as a British aid worker throughout a war-torn Middle East, Hana (Andrea Riseborough) chooses Luxor as the destination for her leave. Not only is the Egyptian city situated on the east bank of the Nile for serene sights and the spiritual healing of Thebes’ religious monuments to counteract such crippling strife, but it was also the place where her journey inside the region began with a bottomless wealth of hope and promise for the future. She found love there…

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REVIEW: Lust for Love [2014]

“Water off a duck’s back” First-time writer/director Anton King‘s Lust for Love is primed for audience consumption two years and change after its Kickstarter campaign went live. A labor of love for a group of creative friends—previously brought together on Joss Whedon‘s “Dollhouse”—this indie rom/com is a cutely funny tale refusing to hide its conclusion from frame one. Anyone who has ever seen a movie knows that a guy asking a girl to teach him how to win back his ex inevitably sparks something between them that neither party saw…

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