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New Release Review - "Bird"
by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2024-11-19

There's a moment late on in Andrea Arnold's Bird in which a fox walks into a pub from off the street and briefly looks at the camera. Clearly computer-generated, the creature bears such a resemblance to the fox from Lars von Trier's Antichrist that we half expect it to open its mouth and utter the words "Chaos reigns!"




 

New Release Review - "Meanwhile on Earth"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2024-11-13

From Invasion of the Body Snatchers to the '80s TV sensation V, we've seen many examples of an alien invasion deployed as an allegory for fascism. With Meanwhile on Earth, writer/director Jérémy Clapin gives us a fresh perspective on this idea. His film isn't centred on the heroes who try to save Earth from space-Nazis, but rather on a human collaborator, one who is so heartbroken by loss that she's willing to sacrifice her own species, seduced by that classic fascist promise of protecting her loved ones.



New Release Review - "Christmas Eve in Miller's Point"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2024-11-12

There's a scene in Goodfellas where Lorraine Bracco's character finds herself surrounded by the wives of her new husband's mobster mates. Scorsese films this raucous gathering of Italian-American women like a Fellini tableau while Bracco's voiceover makes her disapproval clear, mocking the women's tacky appearance. Tyler Taormina's Christmas Eve in Miller's Point plays out mostly in a home similarly stuffed with Italian-Americans (among them Scorsese's daughter Francesca). There are lots of bad fashion choices, tacky hairstyles and over-applied make-up on display. But there's no expression of contempt from anyone here. This is an unbridled and unfashionable expression of affection for working class get-togethers.



New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2025 Schedule Announced

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, in association with the Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies, is proud to present the New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2025 which marks its 43rd Anniversary. The Festival will be taking place on select Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between January 24-February 21, 2025. The Festival will once again be a hybrid one as they will be presenting it online as well as doing in-person screenings at Rutgers University.



New Release Review - "Juror #2"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2024-11-07

For a brief period in the '90s, legal thrillers were all the rage. They were as ubiquitous as superhero movies in the 2010s and they attracted top-tier filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman and Alan J. Pakula. Then Hollywood ran out of John Grisham novels to adapt and turned to comic books instead. Juror #2, sadly rumoured to be Clint Eastwood's final film (he is 95, after all), somewhat fittingly arrives at a time when audiences seem to have finally tired of watching men in tights punch one another. It's a throwback to those '90s thrillers, complete with obligatory Southern setting, and a reminder that while those films were no less hokey in their own way than a Batman movie, they were a fun time made for adults and a dream for the actors involved.





New Release Review - "Heretic"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2024-11-06

Who doesn't live in fear of answering the doorbell and being greeted by the beaming faces of Christian missionaries? They stand there rabbiting on, thrusting pamphlets in your face, while you try to coax them off your doorstep without coming across as rude. Such encounters usually end with you having to resort to curtness, informing them that nothing they say is going to turn you into a convert while you shut the door in their faces. Then you have that immediate brief pang of guilt. Maybe you should have invited them in and explained in detail why the conclusions you've personally reached regarding spirituality are incompatible with what they're selling? But who has time for that? And anyway, nothing you say is likely to penetrate their belief system.



State Theatre New Jersey presents Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in Concert

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey presents Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in Concert on Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 7:30pm. Building on the success of the sold-out global shows of the first Oscar®-winning Spider-Man™ animated Spider-Verse film, comes this highly anticipated sequel, captivating audiences in concert venues worldwide.



State Theatre New Jersey and NJPAC Productions present An Evening with Chevy Chase & National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey and NJPAC Productions present An Evening with Chevy Chase & National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation at the State Theatre on Friday, December 5, 2024 at 7:30pm. This unforgettable evening celebrates the timeless classic with a special 35th Anniversary screening of the film followed by a live conversation and Q&A with Chevy Chase, and his wife Jayni.



New Release Review - "Don't Move"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2024-11-04

For as long as I can remember I've had a recurring dream where I'm being pursued by someone or something only to find that I can't move my legs. I end up stuck in one place, awaiting my fate as whatever it is that's on my tail makes its way towards me before I'm rescued by my alarm clock. With Don't Move, directors Adam Schindler and Brian Netto, and writers TJ Cimfel and David White, have created a thriller that's literally the stuff of my nightmares. Like the dream I can't shake, it features a prone protagonist, but there's nothing ambiguous or metaphorical about the antagonist, who is simply another predatory man with a God complex.



New Release Review - "The Front Room"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2024-10-31

Of all the isms, ageism might be the most baffling. If we're lucky, we're all going to be old some day so discriminating against the elderly means we're only making things tougher for our future selves. It's like if white people knew they were going to turn black when they hit 65 yet continued to be racist. And yet, possibly because of its disconnect from race, gender or sexuality, ageism is the most acceptable and unquestioned form of prejudice, so much so that in our supposedly enlightened modern times we still get movies that mock the elderly for cheap laughs.


 

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