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The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster (2023): a film review by Mark R. Leeper.
‘The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster’ starts out narrated by the ‘angry Black girl’ of this horror movie title. She tells a…
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June 2023
NewsHorror
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (2023): a film review by Mark R. Leeper.
A lot of people these days on the Internet and elsewhere seem to have an unquenchable thirst for celebrity biographies. A large number…
NewsFilms
Master (2022): a film review by Mark R. Leeper.
‘Master’ is a surprisingly effective story with high production values. We start out wondering, ‘Is this a ghost story? A polemic? Or what?’…
May 2023
NewsHorror
We Have A Ghost (2023) : a film review by Mark R. Leeper
‘We Have a Ghost’ is a family-friendly horror-comedy with a PG-13 rating. This amusing tale revolves around a family that relocates to a…
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Midsommar (2019) : a film review by Mark R. Leeper
In ‘Midsommar’, three friends travel to Sweden to observe the midsummer festival at the farm/commune of another of their friends. It is…
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PK (2014) : a film review by Mark R. Leeper
‘PK’ is a 2014 Indian Science Fiction film about an alien who is visiting Earth. Within the first five minutes of his…
April 2023
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Disney’s Pinocchio (2023): a film review by Mark R. Leeper.
In the beginning of Disney’s Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket gets into an argument with the narrator. It is always best to stay on the…
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Brian And Charles (2022) (a film mini-review by Mark R. Leeper).
Brian and Charles is expanded from a 2017 12-minute film, and serves as evidence that some shorts do not expand well. The plot…
March 2023
NewsScifi
Don’t Worry Darling (2022) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Set in the Victory Project, a 1950s utopian community, “Don’t Worry Darling” follows our protagonist as she tackles housework with the same energy…
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Three Thousand Years Of Longing (2022): a film review by Mark R. Leeper.
In ‘Three Thousand Years Of Longing’, the characters believe that to understand life one must understand stories. In the 1940s through to the…
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Vesper (2022) : a film review by Mark R. Leeper
‘Vesper’ is set in a post-ecological disaster world where the catastrophe was caused by human errors in genetic engineering. As a result, nature…
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Black Adam : a super-hero film review by Mark R. Leeper
‘Black Adam’ is another addition to the DC Universe. For viewers more familiar with this universe, the film may be easier to follow,…