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New Release Review - "Bugonia"
by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-11-05

Jang Joon-hwan's 2003 Korean sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet! was part of that Millennial wave of East Asian genre movies that developed cult followings among western audiences. Many of those films received inevitable, and inevitably disappointing, Hollywood remakes, and now two decades later Jang's film receives am English language remake from an unlikely source: the Greek absurdist auteur Yorgos Lanthimos.

44th Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival to Take Place January 23 to February 22, 2026

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The 44th Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will take place on select Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between January 23-February 22, 2026. The Festival will be a hybrid one as it will be presented online as well as doing in-person screenings at Rutgers University.

New Release Review - "The Mastermind"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-11-01
Fittingly, The Mastermind receives its release in the wake of a headline-grabbing heist at the Louvre. The criminals responsible for that robbery employed methods that suggest they're not students of French heist movies. There was no ingenious plan to break in through the roof or via an adjoining building under cover of darkness; instead the thieves went to work with angle grinders in broad daylight. Kelly Reichardt's film is inspired by a similar 1972 incident in which thieves entered the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts during opening hours and walked out with four valuable paintings.

Teaneck International Film Festival Marks 20th Anniversary with Free Filmmaker Boot Camp Led by TV Executive Ashley McFarlin

(TEANECK, NJ) -- As part of its milestone 20th anniversary celebration, the Teaneck International Film Festival (TIFF) presents a Free Filmmaker Boot Camp with award-winning television executive and producer Ashley McFarlin. Presented in partnership with Bird's Eye Entertainment, Inc. and Fairleigh Dickinson University, this one-night workshop will take place on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 from 6:30pm to 9:30pm at the Fairleigh Dickinson University Library Auditorium on the Teaneck campus.

New to Netflix - "Ballad Of A Small Player"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-10-30
Director Edward Berger follows up his Vatican drama Conclave with another movie set within a small city with a distinctive personality. This time it's the Asian gambling mecca of Macau, a cross between the tacky glitz of Las Vegas and the exclusivity of Monte Carlo. It's there we find Lord Doyle (Colin Farrell), a British aristocrat whose opulent hotel room suggests he hit it big at one point on his trip, but he's now fallen heavily into debt.

New Release Review - "Roofman"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-10-25
Jeffrey Manchester is a currently incarcerated American prisoner who pulled off dozens of armed robberies of branches of McDonalds in the late '90s and early 2000s before his initial capture. In 2004, Manchester escaped from prison and spent months hiding out in a Charlotte, North Carolina branch of Toys R Us. During his time in Charlotte, Manchester ingratiated himself to the local community, joining a church and even dating a local woman. He was eventually caught after his fingerprint was found on a DVD copy of Catch Me If You Can.

Teaneck International Film Festival presents "Plastic People"

(TEANECK, NJ) -- As part of its 20th anniversary celebration, the Teaneck International Film Festival (TIFF) continues its tradition of "Activism: Making Change" with the powerful environmental documentary Plastic People, screening on Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 12:30pm at the Puffin Cultural Forum, followed by a dynamic panel discussion on the growing crisis of microplastics and what New Jersey can do to lead the way toward a cleaner, safer future.

New Release Review - "After The Hunt"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-10-20
Over the past couple of decades Julia Roberts has convincingly transitioned from a great movie star to a fine actress. Recognising this, Luca Guadagnino has rewarded her with the sort of role usually reserved for the Kidmans, Blanchetts and Winslets of this world, a juicy lead part in a hot button drama. Roberts elevates the shoddy material and her magnetism ensures we're always at least partially engaged, but the film around her is an overblown mess.

New Release Review - "The Smashing Machine"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-10-17
Sports biopics have always come up against one major problem, that of the target audience already knowing the outcome. As someone who previously thought UFC stood for Uxminster Football Club, I'm probably not the target audience for a biopic of MMA fighter Mark Kerr (isn't he your man from Simple Minds?). As such, I had no idea how The Smashing Machine might end, which meant I probably enjoyed it a little more than MMA devotees might.

New Release Review - "The Lost Bus"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-10-13
The disaster movie meets true life drama in The Lost Bus, the latest in director Paul Greengrass's growing line of cinematic recreations of headline news incidents. This one is inspired by a story of heroism that emerged from the 2018 California "Camp Fire," the deadliest fire in the state's history, which claimed 85 lives and left tens of thousands of residents displaced. The fire began in the morning when a faulty transmission tower released a live electrical cable whose sparks ignited the dry grass below. Within hours the authorities had declared a mass casualty event.

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