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Next Stop, Greenwich Village 1976
I hadn't ever heard of Next Stop Greenwich Village, and were it not for a coworker's recommendation, I doubt I ever would've. I looked for it at my local library without luck. No library within the city's vast network of library catalogs had any record of the film. It's not streaming anywhere. It felt like a movie teetering on the precipice of non-existence, at risk of being lost in the ever-expanding sea of content. The idea that a film my…
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First Reformed 2017
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🎶 I’ll be your first reformed, bless me father 🎶
🎶First Reformed, Draino straight🎶
🎶First Reformed, purify me🎶
🎶wrapped in barbed wire baby, I can’t wait🎶
- Shangela at the 2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards
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Free Rein: Valentine's Day 2019
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The x on the map isn’t treasure. It’s a WWII land mine!!! Wow 🤯
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Nosferatu 2024
Eggers lays it on thick in his adaptation of Nosferatu, which cranks up the expressionist style to an eleven and never lets up. It’s a good adaptation of the material, if a bit over-steeped in surreal, gothic aesthetics. It’s unrelenting in its darkness, which may make it difficult for some to find any semblance of levity, but it ultimately befits the film Eggers sought to make.
Really happy to see Lily-Rose Depp have an opportunity to display that she has…
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