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New Release Review - "The Univited"
by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-05-10

Just a week ago while reviewing the Deborah Levy adaptation Swimming Home I noted how so many recent movies were following the template set down by Jean Renoir in his 1932 satire Boudu Saved from Drowning, that of a wealthy family being shaken up by the arrival of an outsider. First time writer/director Nadia Conners is the latest filmmaker to channel Renoir with her Hollywood satire The Uninvited.

New Release Review - "Another Simple Favor"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-05-08
2018's A Simple Favor saw Paul Feig, a director best known for female-centred comedies like Bridesmaids, The Heat and the Ghostbusters reboot, adapt a straight-faced mystery novel by author Darcey Bell. The result was an unmitigated disaster, with Feig completely out of his depth in the territory of Hitchcock and de Palma. It had a promising opening act, leaning into the comic chemistry of its leading ladies Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick before taking an about turn into hackneyed thriller territory, with a particular eye-rolling plot twist.

NJ Filmmaker to Have World Premiere of "The Cineplex" TV Pilot at 2025 Big Apple Film Festival

by Gary Wien
published 2025-05-06
(NEW YORK, NY) -- New Jersey filmmaker Alan Del Tufo will have the World Premiere of his independently produced TV pilot, The Cineplex, at the 2025 Big Apple Film Festival on Monday, May 12, 2025. The Cineplex is about a quirky staff at a local movie theater that is forced to contend with a by the book, corporate takeover.

First Look Review - "Neighborhood Watch"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-05-02
Director Duncan Skiles, whose 2018 thriller The Clovehitch Killer has developed something of a cult following in recent years, returns with Neighborhood Watch. Skiles' latest has the sort of setup that fuelled many a comic thriller back in the '80s. It's a classic buddy movie, pairing two mismatched misfits for an adventure that plunges them into their city's criminal underworld. 40 years ago it would have paired a seasoned veteran like Nick Nolte or James Woods with a rising comic star like Eddie Murphy or Michael J. Fox. It also likely would have struck a more natural balance between its comedy and its action, something Skiles and writer Sean Farley never quite pull off here.

New Release Review - "The Accountant 2"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-04-29
2016's The Accountant performed modestly at the box office yet somehow became the most rented title on US VOD platforms of 2017. Despite such unlikely returns, it has taken almost a decade for a sequel to surface, with original director Gavin O'Connor and writer Bill Dubuque back on board. Despite having so much time to refine this, O'Connor and Dubuque's sequel plays like it was rushed to market, with a script desperately in need of a couple more rewrites and baggy pacing that cries out for some judicious editing.

State Theatre New Jersey presents Naruto: The Symphony Experience

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey presents Naruto: The Symphony Experience on Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at 7:00pm. For the first time ever, audiences will see a live orchestra perform the most iconic songs and themes from the Naruto animated series, live-to-picture. Tickets range from $39-$99.

New Release Review - "Sinners"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-04-24
The most famous legend in all of musical lore is that of guitarist Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil in exchange for blues greatness. With Sinners, writer/director Ryan Coogler takes inspiration from Johnson's story and remixes it as a vampire thriller and a tribute to popular music's roots in the Delta blues. An alternate title might be "The House That Honeydripped Blood."

New Release Review - "The Ugly Stepsister"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-04-22
Combining the bawdiness of Walerian Borowczyk's medieval fantasies with the postmodernism of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, Norwegian writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt's The Ugly Stepsister might be described as a neo-fairy tale. It's essentially the Cinderella story, taking elements from both the Perrault and Brothers Grimm versions, and it's set in a beautifully rendered version of some non-existent Scandinavian kingdom of the past. But the trouble with fairy tales is that they were written hundreds of years ago when the world was a cruel and insensitive place, and their black and white presentation of good and evil doesn't fit with our modern sensibilities. Nor does the reprehensible idea present in so many fairy tales that physical "ugliness" is a sign of bad moral fibre.

New Release Review - "Drop"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-04-13
You know you're out of touch when a movie introduces you to a piece of technology to which you're oblivious, but which everyone in the movie is entirely familiar with. That's the case with Drop, a thriller centred around 'DigiDrop', a fictional cousin of the iPhone's AirDrop feature. As someone who views a phone as a necessary evil (if I could live without one in 2025 I gladly would), I had never encountered the concept of "drops," which I now know are messages sent between iPhones (via bluetooth?) within a certain distance of one another.

New Release Review - "The Amateur"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-04-12
1981's The Amateur was an early entry in the wave of '80s Cold War thrillers that simultaneously exploited both the public's growing interest and general ignorance of computers. Rather than a James Bond figure, the protagonist was a nerdy codebreaker who becomes a proto MacGyver, using brains rather than brawn to seek revenge for the killing of his wife by terrorists. The use of technology in the movie was absolute hokum, but 1981 audiences simply didn't know any better and assumed that maybe an arcade machine could be reconstituted as a code-breaking device.

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Singin’ in the Rain – UCPAC Film Fest Feature Digital Presentation & Opening Ceremony
Friday, May 16, 2025 @ 7:00pm
Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) - Main Stage
1601 Irving Street, Rahway, NJ 07065

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UCPAC Film Fest 2025
Friday, May 16, 2025 @ 11:00am
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UCPAC Film Fest 2025
Saturday, May 17, 2025 @ 11:00am
Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) - Main Stage
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UCPAC Film Fest 2025
Sunday, May 18, 2025 @ 11:00am
Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) - Main Stage
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Harlem to Harvard, Marine Field Station, Birdfeeder, Kanenon:we - Original Seeds & Our Borderlands - Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 5PM!
Sunday, June 01, 2025 @ 5:00pm
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71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

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