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Review of American Fable (2017)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Next Projection (34) on 15 Oct 2018

First time feature writer-director Anne Hamilton is staking her claim, this is her style, and you will do right to take notice…

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Review of American Animals (2018)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Next Projection (34) on 15 Oct 2018

It is a popcorn movie dripping with arthouse flair, and populated with intriguing and complex characters, be they real or performed…

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Review of Jeff Lowe's Metanoia (2014)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Next Projection (34) on 15 Oct 2018

Jeff Lowe's Metanoia is the type of documentary that captivates your eyes and ears in the most expected of ways but wins over your heart in…

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Review of The Big Short (2015)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Next Projection (34) on 15 Oct 2018

McKay takes his gift for comedy and weaves it into drama like a rich tapestry…

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Review of Spaceship (2016)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Next Projection (34) on 15 Oct 2018

Taylor seems bored by his own story and quickly introduces secondary and tertiary characters of diminishing importance to jolt a line that…

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Review of A Quiet Place (2016)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Next Projection (34) on 15 Oct 2018

The mediocre nature of the film's actual scares betray what is mostly a thrilling film…

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Review of The Breaker Upperers (2018)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Next Projection (34) on 15 Oct 2018

If we have the good sense we will throw our money at writer-director-stars Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek, because they certainly have…

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Review of The Slippers (2016)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Next Projection (34) on 15 Oct 2018

What is impressive about Morgan White's direction is how the many stories are gently folded in, winning the viewer over bit by bit…

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Review of Headshot (2016)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Next Projection (34) on 15 Oct 2018

It was as if I opened a puzzle only to find that the majority of the items within the box didn't belong…

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Review of It (2017)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Next Projection (34) on 15 Oct 2018

It is much like walking through a haunted house…

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Review of Orange Sunshine (2016)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Next Projection (34) on 15 Oct 2018

Kirkley doesn't necessarily want you to feel for his subjects but instead wants you to feel like you are one of them…

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Review of Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Next Projection (34) on 15 Oct 2018

The comedy comes from a place of reality and even when said reality is heightened, Linklater does it in a way that rolls off your back…

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Review of The New Romantic (2018)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Next Projection (34) on 15 Oct 2018

Perhaps more egregious than its familiar plot and waste of up-and-comer Jessica Barden is that despite its title, there is nothing new or romantic…

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Review of Elizabeth Harvest (2018)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Next Projection (34) on 15 Oct 2018

At times, Elizabeth Harvest appears to even confuse itself, feeling as if the film didn't have a script as much as an idea that continued to…

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Review of The Greasy Strangler (2016)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Edge Media Network (10) on 08 Oct 2018

It is less a film and more the terrifying fever dream of a stressed out stray dog living in a failing thrift store…

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Review of Keanu (2016)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Edge Media Network (10) on 08 Oct 2018

The action is intense, the jokes frequent, and the kitten is almost shockingly adorable…

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Review of Carnage Park (2016)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Edge Media Network (10) on 08 Oct 2018

Its gore is admirably done, and thankfully the effects are practical, but they don't add to the proceedings, delivered with more of a shrug…

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Review of Audrie & Daisy (2016)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Edge Media Network (10) on 08 Oct 2018

Cohen and Shenk refuse to allow the audience to sit in ignorance, not only revealing the horrid heart of a backwards societal view of rape…

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Review of Flesh and Blood (2017)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Edge Media Network (10) on 08 Oct 2018

In a film full of people basically playing themselves it is Webber, likely playing a character farthest from himself, that makes the film worthwhile…

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Review of Step Sisters (2018)

By Derek Deskins (44) for Edge Media Network (10) on 08 Oct 2018

Calling the jokes lazy feels like I'm giving them too much credit…

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