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Inception – Film Review
Dominick “Dom” Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) steals information from his targets by entering their dreams. Saito (Ken Watanabe) offers to wipe clean Cobb’s criminal history as payment for performing an inception on his sick competitor’s son. It may be extremely difficult to believe, but just this past month, Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending and awe-inspiring Inception turned ten years old….
- 2026
Yi Yi – Film Review
Set in Taiwan, Yi Yi follows the lives of the Jian family from the alternating perspectives of the three main family members: father N.J. (Nien-Jen Wu), teenage daughter Ting-Ting (Kelly Lee), and young son Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang). N.J., disgruntled with his current job, attempts to court the favor of a prominent video game company while…
- 2026
She Dies Tomorrow – Film Review
After waking up convinced that she is going to die tomorrow, Amy’s (Kate Lyn Sheil) carefully mended life begins to unravel. As her delusions of certain death become contagious to those around her, Amy and her friends’ lives spiral out of control in a tantalizing descent into madness. Amy Seimetz’s She Dies Tomorrow wastes no time in…
- 2026
Work It – Film Review
An awkward eighteen-year-old girl named Quinn Ackerman (Sabrina Carpenter) achieves near-perfection by sheer hard work. She vows to transform her gawkiness through dance, and refine her skills until she competes at a competition. Right from the opening scene of Laura Terruso’s Work It, you can feel the good vibes and happy-go-lucky tone of the movie seeping…
- 2026
Host – Film Review
Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance over Zoom during lockdown but get far more than they bargain for as things quickly go wrong. When an evil spirit starts invading their homes, they begin to realize they might not survive the night. I know what you’re thinking after reading the synopsis for Rob…
- 2026
An American Pickle – Film Review
A struggling laborer named Herschel Greenbaum (Seth Rogen) immigrates to America in 1919 with dreams of building a better life for his beloved family. One day, while working at his factory job, he falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for 100 years. The brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in…
- 2026