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Twin Cities Film Fest Recap
Twin Cities Film Fest: 10 Days. 150+ Movies. 2 Theaters. My stats: 7 Days. 6 Movies. 2 Theaters. This was my second ever festival experience and my first at TCFF and it’s safe to say there are many ups and downs to the whole thing. Here I will get into…
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TCFF Day 1: Hamnet
This year was my first time receiving a media pass for the Twin Cities Film Fest, so I was at an all time high in my movie going brain. I was going to be able to bring my fiancé with me, we were meeting up with other members of the…
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Cinema Catch-Up Corner August 2025
Freaky Tales Uhhhh where did this movie come from? It has elements of everything I love,including the cameo of the year and it’s somehow the best Pedro Pascal performance of the year. Great comedy, action, 80’s nostalgia, and just all around an awesome time. 8.8/10 Happy Gilmore 2 When everything…
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Cinema Catch-Up Corner July 2025
The Phoenician Scheme I bet making a movie with Wes Anderson is the most fun thing you could do in the Hollywood space. It actually feels like actors are doing what they set out to do. That being said, his movies continue to uninspire me as a film watcher and…
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Captain America: Brave New World
Anthony Mackie finally gets his chance to be at the front of an MCU film, as Captain America, with wings. I’m at a point where it’s either been too long since I’ve seen some of these characters, or their importance is no longer a factor. If you haven’t caught up…
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Paddington in Peru
Paddington in Peru is here to end the trilogy. The third film in this franchise is missing a lot, most notably Sally Hawkins. It removes itself and the bear from London, which was a major part of the charm to the first two. To no fault of their own, the…
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Love Hurts
A John Wick copycat set on Valentine’s Day quite possibly just for the open release date. Ke Huy Quan finally gets a chance to shine as the lead in a movie, but his mannerisms still feel like they’re meant for a side role. Just like Nobody, Quan isn’t supposed to…
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Companion
Companion fails to deliver anything of excitement or surprise. Going in with the knowledge of what is really going on makes all the little hints at it, down right bad. Characters were all ones we’ve seen before and situations that were apparently meant to be shocking, were pretty tame. Nothing…
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Heart Eyes
Meet cute, no, meat cut.A new slasher movie has arrived. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a movie like Scream, but Heart Eyes mostly fills that void. It’s set on Valentine’s Day as the killer HEK wreaks havoc on Seattle’s couples. I would say 50% of this film…
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Flight Risk
“Ya’ll need a good movie?” Keep looking. Flight Risk pairs two all time great assholes, Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson, together for a movie that takes all the little talent they had left and shoves it into the deepest hole. I will start by saying Wahlberg IS the best part…
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Presence
If you go into Presence thinking it’s going to be the same old horror movie, you’d be wrong. It still starts out with a family moving into a new house where the family slowly realizes something sinister might also be there, but there’s so much more to it than that. …
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The Brutalist
The Brutalist is a film that has so much to unpack. Set mainly in what feels like a counterfeit Pennsylvania, an extraordinary architect Laszlo Toh (Adrian Brody) makes his way from war ridden Europe to start a better life. It starts off feeling huge, because I’m sure this was a…
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Wolf Man
Are Werewolves the same as the Wolf Man seen in this movie? I genuinely don’t know, and this movie doesn’t really help get me any closer to the answer. Leigh Whannell’s take on the wolf man is similar to The Fly. It’s a slow burn that focuses on relationships and…
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The Room Next Door
I am completely unfamiliar with Pedro Almodovar’s non-English work, but using the Yorgos Lanthimos method of translating directly from page to screen wasn’t the best idea here. I don’t know how to put it into words other than that I felt like I watched an audiobook. All of the line…
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Better Man
Better Man Robbie Williams is quite possibly one of the biggest musicians to ever come out of the UK, but maybe not since no one over here has ever even heard of him. At some point, someone decided to make a biopic about him. And instead of making it a…
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Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Heist movies should have interesting and complex characters, scene stealing locations, and entertaining heist related moments sprinkled throughout. This instead has too many characters doing almost nothing heist related while switching locations dozens of times for no apparent reason. If you were also impressed with nothing of importance happening for…
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The Fire Inside
The true story of boxer Claressa Shields and her journey from Flint, Michigan to the London Olympics. The first half of the movie focuses on her working her way out of a bad home on her way to become the first female boxing gold medalist. I know this is her…
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Nosferatu
HE IS COMING From a technical side of things, Nosferatu should be considered among the best of the year in film. Robert Eggers directs this movie in a way that feels like the most refreshing take on directing in years. The camera never sits or moves in the same way…
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Babygirl
This is the story of when a woman CEO gets the itch to have an affair with her younger intern. Babygirl has had all the hype this year, whether it’s because of Nicole Kidman being in the lead role, it being an A24 film, or that it’s the least creepy…
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Sicario and The Martian
Sicario has been one of my most anticipated movies of the year and it didn’t let me down. It stars Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, and Josh Brolin. It’s set around them trying to find a cartel leader in Mexico, well at least that’s all I knew about it going…
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