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Bob Trevino Likes It 2024
Tracie Laymon’s semi-autobiographical indie drama BOB TREVINO LIKES IT wears its big, sincere, sometimes overly precious but ultimately moving heart on its sleeve. Barbie Ferreira is an irrepressible presence as Lily Trevino, a lonely 25-year-old home-care worker whose only family is a selfish father (an unrecognizable French Stewart) quick to cut her out of his life until he needs something. In his absence, she strikes up a surprising friendship with a 60-year-old man, like her father also named Bob Trevino…
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Novocaine 2025
Dan Berk & Robert Olsen’s NOVOCAINE would have utterly charmed even if it didn’t transform at the half-hour mark into a violent action film, and that’s the key to its success. Jack Quaid is a disarming, immensely likable lead—a far cry from his recent roles of villainy—and his romantic chemistry with Amber Midthunder is some of the best so far this year. They play, respectively, an introverted San Diego associate bank manager and a friendly bank teller whose burgeoning relationship hits…
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Opus 2025
MIDSOMMAR meets WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY by way of Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in Mark Anthony Green’s OPUS, a deeply unnerving voyage into the darkest imaginable recesses of celebrity worship. Our protagonist is Ariel Ecton (an excellent Ayo Edebiri), an ambitious rookie journalist who, upon reclusive pop superstar Moretti’s (John Malkovich) announcement of his first new album in thirty years, is invited to spend a weekend at his expansive gated desert compound to exclusively hear the music. One…
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937
Disney’s very first feature-length animated film, SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937) is an undisputed classic with plenty of nightmarish imagery and, true to form for the early days of the medium, a teensy bit of storytelling filler. My favorite moment this time around was when Sneezy fluffs Dopey’s ass and uses it as a pillow.
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