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Atlanta Film Festival 2022: Portraits From a Fire

Written by Anna Harrison It makes me feel somewhat guilty to give “Portraits From a Fire” a less-than-stellar score—not because the movie deserves it, but because it’s so earnest that it breaks my heart a little to criticize it… Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Film Festival Leave a comment May 26, 2022May 22, 2022

SXSW 2022: The Lost City

Written by Anna Harrison Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a romance novelist somehow gets caught up in a nefarious plot in a tropical location, an attractive man gets dispatched to rescue her, and the two fall in love … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Film Festival Leave a comment April 15, 2022April 10, 2022

SXSW 2022: Linoleum

Written by Anna Harrison “Linoleum” has a perfectly mundane setup: Cameron (Jim Gaffigan) is going through a midlife crisis, the kind that we’ve seen played out on screen countless times before. Only when a car falls out of the sky … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Film Festival Leave a comment April 7, 2022April 2, 2022

SXSW 2022: Deadstream

Written by Anna Harrison Shawn Ruddy (Joseph Winter) of “Deadstream” is clearly made in the mold of YouTubers and streamers like Paul: he does stupid things for views, and when those stupid things get other people hurt, he has to … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Feature, Film Festival Leave a comment March 16, 2022March 15, 2022

VIFF 2021 Review: The Beta Test

Written by Anna Harrison 75/100 “Everybody still wants to be Harvey.” This sentiment isn’t explicitly expressed in The Beta Test until the end of the film, but nevertheless makes itself felt from the get-go as we follow Hollywood agent Jordan … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Film Festival, New Releases Leave a comment October 2, 2021October 3, 2021

Tribeca 2021 Review: Werewolves Within

Written by Anna Harrison 65/100 Video game adaptations are practically always hit-or-miss, and they tend to lean (very) heavily into the “miss” category (see: Super Mario Bros., Mortal Kombat, Warcraft, etc.); while Werewolves Within doesn’t entirely buck this trend, it … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Film Festival, New Releases Leave a comment August 15, 2021August 6, 2021

Tribeca 2021 Film Festival Review: Enjoy

Written by Anna Harrison 75/100 Saul Abraham’s short film Enjoy finds its protagonist Michael (Himesh Patel) unable to enjoy just about anything. A struggling musician also struggling with the deepest throes of depression, Michael drifts aimlessly around his world, being … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Episodes 1 Comment August 2, 2021July 4, 2021

Tribeca 2021 Film Festival Interview: Director Saul Abraham Talks Short “Enjoy”

Interview by Anna Harrison When did you first get the idea for this film? How long did the process from development to distribution take? It is based on writer Callum Cameron’s personal experiences as a home tutor. He sent it … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Episodes 1 Comment August 2, 2021July 4, 2021

Atlanta Film Festival 2021 Review: Nine Days

Written by Anna Harrison 85/100 Nine Days has a premise that could have very easily tipped towards the saccharine, spouting platitudes about the meaning of life with obnoxious heavy-handedness. Luckily, director Edson Oda and his creative team decided instead to … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Film Festival, New Releases Leave a comment July 31, 2021July 30, 2021

Tribeca 2021 Film Festival Review: Last Film Show

Written by Anna Harrison 70/100 Pan Nalin’s Last Film Show opens with a thank you to people the director has likely never met: the Lumière brothers, Eadweard Muybridge, David Lean, Stanley Kubrick, and Andrei Tarkovsky. Some of these names are … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Episodes Leave a comment July 25, 2021July 26, 2021

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Drink in the Movies Top 10 Films of 2022
White Noise
"If there is an antithesis to James Bond, it’s Benoit Blanc. He prefers a hard kombucha to a martini, has a live-in boyfriend instead of a string of women, and broods a lot less, so it’s no surprise that Daniel Craig gravitated towards a role like Detective Blanc after he hung up 007’s suit. 2019’s “Knives Out” proved that miracles still happen at the movie theater: it was a mid-sized original movie, with no connection to anything superhero (save a supporting role for Chris Evans) or any known brands, but it worked like gangbusters, haters of Rian Johnson’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” be damned (also, you’re wrong if you’re a hater). The sequel rights were snatched up by..."
Avatar: The Way of Water
"Go into “Barbarian” as blind as possible. You’ll be glad you did. A highly entertaining, tautly suspenseful horror thriller written and directed by Zach Cregger, its scares and surprises are sure to deliver tremendous jolts to the unsuspecting. Read on at your own risk."
"Is Jon Hamm a movie star? That has been the question perplexing audiences and Hollywood executives since the actor made his breakthrough on “Mad Men.” In “Mad Men,” Hamm plays a movie star-type role..."

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Drink in the Movies Top 10 Films of 2022
White Noise
"If there is an antithesis to James Bond, it’s Benoit Blanc. He prefers a hard kombucha to a martini, has a live-in boyfriend instead of a string of women, and broods a lot less, so it’s no surprise that Daniel Craig gravitated towards a role like Detective Blanc after he hung up 007’s suit. 2019’s “Knives Out” proved that miracles still happen at the movie theater: it was a mid-sized original movie, with no connection to anything superhero (save a supporting role for Chris Evans) or any known brands, but it worked like gangbusters, haters of Rian Johnson’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” be damned (also, you’re wrong if you’re a hater). The sequel rights were snatched up by..."
Avatar: The Way of Water
"Go into “Barbarian” as blind as possible. You’ll be glad you did. A highly entertaining, tautly suspenseful horror thriller written and directed by Zach Cregger, its scares and surprises are sure to deliver tremendous jolts to the unsuspecting. Read on at your own risk."
"Is Jon Hamm a movie star? That has been the question perplexing audiences and Hollywood executives since the actor made his breakthrough on “Mad Men.” In “Mad Men,” Hamm plays a movie star-type role..."
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