Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026) Review – A Legacy Buried Beneath a Generic Possession Film - Four Time Film School Dropout Lee Cronin’s The Mummy arrives with the promise of reinvention—an opportunity to exhume one of horror’s most enduring icons and […]

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“Cronin’s The Mummy doesn’t resurrect a legend—it reduces it to a genre afterthought.” #filmsky #moviesky

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“Every frame is composed with precision, but rarely with purpose beyond beauty.”

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The Drama (2026) Review — Kristoffer Borgli’s Moral Pressure Cooker Redefines Love Through Discomfort - Four Time Film School Dropout Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama is a confrontational, emotionally raw examination of love, marriage, and the fragile moral frameworks that hold […]

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“Borgli doesn’t offer clarity—he weaponizes ambiguity, forcing love and morality into direct conflict.”

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Mouse (MdFF 2026) — Performance, Loneliness, and the Cost of Becoming Someone Else - Four Time Film School Dropout Kenny Riches’ Mouse presents itself as a modest crime drama, but beneath its stripped-down premise lies a far more incisive […]

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“What begins as petty crime doesn’t stay petty—it becomes performance, and eventually, self-destruction.”
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“The audience isn’t watching Funny Games. The film is watching us.”
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Cold Metal (2026) - New Director/New Films Festival - Four Time Film School Dropout Clemente Caster’s Cold Metal plays less like a traditional narrative and more like an observational exercise, lingering on the rhythms […]

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"Beyond its opening, the film drifts into repetition, where observation replaces meaning" #filmsky #moviesky #newfilmnewdirector

Brand New Landscape (2026) — A Quiet Devastation of Modern Fatherhood | New Directors/New Films 2026 - Four Time Film School Dropout There is a quiet devastation at the heart of Brand New Landscape, the kind that doesn’t announce itself through melodrama […]

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“Yuiga transforms stillness into momentum, allowing emotion to carry what plot deliberately leaves behind.”

Was lucky enough to great to check out this from New Director/New Films festival.
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Duse (HKIFF 2026): Performance Without Spectacle - Four Time Film School Dropout Pietro Marcello’s Duse resists the familiar gravitational pull of the biopic. Rather than charting the life of Eleonora Duse from […]

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Stealing Cars (MDFF 2026): When Authenticity Isn’t Enough - Four Time Film School Dropout Marly Hernández-Cortés and Stephen Schuyler’s Stealing Cars arrives with a clear intention: to capture a specific environment with an unfiltered […]

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Bouchra (Maryland Film Festival 2026): A Visually Striking Debut Undone by Narrative Drift - Four Time Film School Dropout Orian Yani Barki and Meriem Bennani make their feature debut with Bouchra, a film that arrives with undeniable historical weight […]

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Maryland Film Festival 2026: Ugly Cry Review – A Self-Authored Debut Worth Discovering - Four Time Film School Dropout Emily Robinson’s Ugly Cry captures the psychological toll of performance—not only as an artistic pursuit, but as a condition of […]

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“One of the standout discoveries from Maryland Film Festival, Ugly Cry is a self-authored debut that demands attention.”
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Diane Morgan will return as Philomena Cunk for a brand new series titled ‘CUNK ON CINEMA’.

Coming soon to BBC and Netflix.

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So stoke for the Maryland film festival today.

Last Night I conquered The City Of Thebes : Myth, Memory, and the Performance of Brotherhood (HKIFF 2026) - Four Time Film School Dropout Gabriel Azorín and Celso Giménez’s film frames its central group as soldiers recounting past tactical glories while searching for a […]

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In honor of the 35th anniversary. #filmsky #moviesky

Family Matters (FIFF 2026): Memory, Fracture, and the Quiet Weight of What Remains - Four Time Film School Dropout Ke-Yin Pan’s Family Matters arrives as a quietly assured directorial debut—one that understands the emotional architecture of family not through […]

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“Pan stages tension not as spectacle, but as something quietly suffocating—felt deeply, yet barely acknowledged.”
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“Jesús María Mina anchors the film with a presence that the script itself cannot sustain.”
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The Other Son (FIFF 2026): A Quiet, Devastating Study of Loss and Identity - Four Time Film School Dropout The Other Son is a quietly devastating coming-of-age drama—one that understands adolescence not as a period of discovery, but as […]

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A coming-of-age story not about growing up, but about surviving loss
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Forbidden Fruits Review: A Sharp Character Study Beneath Genre Trapping - Four Time Film School Dropout By: Dominic La-Viola On the surface, Forbidden Fruits plays like The Craft filtered through Mean Girls, but beneath its genre […]

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Forgot to share my review. Hopefully Lu didn’t forget to see the film! #filmsky #moviesky

Ghost World and the Performance of Alienation By: Dominic La-Viola Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World (2001) is often described as a coming-of-age comedy, but the label feels almost willfully insufficient. What the film captures is not simply adolesc…

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It’s easy to define yourself by what you reject
It’s much harder to build something real in its place.

Read my full essay of Ghost World -here #filmsky #moviesky

Even If This Love Disappears Tonight Review By: Dominic La-Viola What initially presents itself as a conventional young adult romance reveals a more ambitious foundation beneath its surface. While it adopts familiar genre framing, Even If Th…

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A romance built not on memory, but on repetition—Even If This Love Disappears Tonight finds its emotional weight in what can’t accumulate, only be rediscovered.

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The King’s Warden Review: A Tonally Fractured Historical Drama By: Dominic La-Viola What begins as a promising historical drama quickly loses its footing, unraveling into a tonal imbalance that the film never fully recovers from. The opening sequence establish…

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The King’s Warden starts as a gripping historical drama before collapsing under its own tonal imbalance—caught between grit and slapstick, never fully committing to either.
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Project Hail Mary Review: A Controlled Study of Isolation and Sacrifice By: Dominic La-Viola Philip Lord and Christopher Miller bring Project Hail Mary to the screen with a confidence that leans heavily into technical precision, yet what emerges is less spectacle than …

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Project Hail Mary trades spectacle for introspection, emerging as a meditation on isolation, memory, and self-sacrifice. Controlled, occasionally safe—but undeniably resonant.
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Palestine 36 Review: History Without Intimacy By: Dominic La-Viola Annemarie Jamir’s Palestine 36 is an ambitious work of historical fiction that draws heavily from real events, blending archival material with dramatization to construct a narr…

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The Gates Review: A Thriller Undone by Its Own Contradictions By: Dominic La-Viola John Burr’s The Gates is a thriller in name only—a film that gestures toward urgency and provocation but never quite locates the tension required to sustain either. What begins…

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A thriller that mistakes tone for tension, collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. #filmsky #moviesky

Sirat Review: Crossing the Threshold of Meaning By Dominic La-Viola The word Sirat originates in Islamic theology, referring to As-Sirat—the bridge every soul must cross on the Day of Judgment. Thinner than a hair and sharper than a sword, it st…

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Oliver Laxe’s Sirat turns a spiritual concept into a punishing cinematic journey—where survival itself becomes the question. One of the year’s most haunting films.
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Undertone Review: Strong Craft Undermined by a Thin Script By : Dominic La-Viola Ian Tuason makes his directorial debut with Undertone, a film that frequently exceeds expectations on a technical level but ultimately falters where it matters most: the scrip…

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Sound becomes the source of fear in Undertone, a horror debut that thrives on technical craft but struggles with its script.

My full review:
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Mariinka Review : CPH:DOX (2026) By: Dominic La-Viola Pieter-Jan De Pue’s Mariinka is a quietly devastating portrait of war’s long shadow — not merely on the battlefield, but within the lives and families caught in its wake. Shot …

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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Review: Rose Byrne Carries the Film By: Dominic La-Viola Mary Bronstein’s latest film, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, attempts to blend dark comedy, psychological drama, and psychological thriller into something emotionally expansive. T…

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Just in time for the Oscar’s #filmsky #moviesky