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michaelzendejas72
Dec 14, 20233 min read
American Fiction (2023) Review
I was particularly excited to see Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel, Erasure, because (even though I never mention...
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michaelzendejas72
Dec 11, 20233 min read
The Zone of Interest (2023) Review
Just a few weeks ago, protests calling for an end to the occupation of Palestine broke out all over the US. Shopping malls were shut...
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michaelzendejas72
Dec 6, 20233 min read
New York Film Festival: How Do You Live? (2023) Review
Hayao Miyazaki’s newest movie is the stuff of dreams. Billed in English as The Boy and the Heron, this fantasy epic remained in obscurity...
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michaelzendejas72
Dec 4, 20233 min read
GODLAND (2023) Review
Cormac McCarthy once wrote that God “speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things;” and while watching Hlynur Pálmason’s newest film,...
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michaelzendejas72
Dec 2, 20234 min read
Godzilla Minus One (2023) Review
Almost seven decades have passed since Ishirō Honda’s radioactive dinosaur first graced screens across the world. Since then, it’s had...
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michaelzendejas72
Nov 28, 20234 min read
May December (2023) Review
Cinema has always been a medium of ghosts. Each second that flicks by onscreen is a time capsule confronting us with who we were, making...
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michaelzendejas72
Nov 14, 20233 min read
Austin Film Festival: Summer of Violence (2023) Review
Nicki Micheaux’s latest offering sets us barely a year after the Rodney King uprising sparked nationwide conversations about police...
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michaelzendejas72
Nov 13, 20236 min read
Austin Film Festival: Exclusive Interview with Director Nicki Micheaux
Nicki Micheaux’s A Summer of Violence has been gaining a ton of buzz as it makes the festival circuit, and for good reason. Along with...
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michaelzendejas72
Nov 10, 20233 min read
Austin Film Festival: The Holdovers (2023) Review
Alexander Payne’s newest offering is a subtle, intimate triumph. Set in 1970, it follows a curmudgeonly educator who stays on campus over...
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michaelzendejas72
Nov 8, 20235 min read
Priscilla (2023) Review
As soon as I saw the trailer for Sofia Coppola’s newest film, I knew it was going to be wildly different from last year’s Elvis-praising...
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michaelzendejas72
Nov 3, 20233 min read
Exclusive Interview with In Tow (2023) director Sharon Arteaga
If you’ve read my review, you know I loved this movie; so I couldn’t have been more excited to speak with the director of In Tow, Sharon...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 31, 20232 min read
Austin Film Festival: Autumn (2023) Review
As you could probably tell from my discussion with the director and co-stars, I loved this film. Tenderly told and gorgeously shot,...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 28, 20232 min read
Austin Film Festival: In Tow (2023) Review
This is the first short film I’ve ever reviewed for this blog, which shows just how much I enjoyed it. Sharon Arteaga’s newest offering...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 25, 20232 min read
New York Film Festival: La Practica (2023) Review
Argentine filmmaker Martín Rejtman is back for the first time in nearly half a decade with a hilarious new offering. Centered around a...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 23, 20239 min read
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Autumn (2023) Director Antonio Sequeira and Co-Stars Beatriz and Miguel Frazão
The Austin Film Festival starts this weekend; and making its world premiere is perhaps one of my favorite movies released this year,...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 19, 20233 min read
New York Film Festival: The Beast (2023) Review
I really wanted to like Bertrand Bonello’s new sci-fi romance, even naming it one of my most anticipated 2023 movies. It’s based on Henry...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 17, 20234 min read
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) Review
Martin Scorsese’s newest film is easily one of his best, which is a big statement when talking about the guy who made Goodfellas (1990),...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 16, 20233 min read
New York Film Festival: Evil Does Not Exist (2023) Review
Academy Award-winning director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s last film, Drive My Car (2021), was one of my favorite films of that year. So, when I...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 12, 20233 min read
Stream of the Week: No One Will Save You (2023)
I’ve already named Brian Duffield’s latest offering as one of my must-watch films for October, but I wanted to talk about it in a more...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 9, 20232 min read
Review: Wes Anderson’s Netflix Shorts (2023)
Wes Anderson’s recently come under fire for his so-called ‘repetitive’ aesthetic; but I couldn’t disagree more with these accusations....
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