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2025 New Jersey International Film Festival to Take Place May 30th through June 8th

(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 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival which marks its 30th Anniversary. The NJIFF competition will be taking place on the Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between May 30 - June 8, 2025 and will be a hybrid one as they will be presenting it online as well as doing in-person screenings at Rutgers University.

New Release Review - "The Rule of Jenny Pen"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-03-13
There are few news stories that rile us up quite like revelations of elder abuse in retirement or convalescent homes. Bullying old people who can't defend themselves is about as low as it gets, so to hear of such horrors really makes our blood boil. But while we sympathise with the victims of such crimes, it also sets us selfishly thinking about our own uncertain futures, of whether we might end up in such a place and find ourselves similarly victimised.

New Release Review - "Cold Wallet"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-03-08
In my review of Craig Gillespie's Dumb Money, which dramatised the GameStop "short squeeze" of January 2021, I remarked how it resembled a Steven Soderbergh movie in both its execution and the use of its ensemble cast. Perhaps Soderbergh felt like he missed out on lending his commentary to our current culture of tech-savvy get-rich-quick endeavours, as he has lent his name (in the form of a "Steven Soderbergh Presents" title card) to director Cutter Hodierne's crypto-themed thriller Cold Wallet.

New Release Review - "I'm Still Here"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-03-06
In the last few years we've received a crop of films from Argentina (Rojo; A Common Crime; Azor) and Chile (1976; El Conde) addressing those South American nations' years under the rule of fascist military dictatorships in the second half of the 20th century. Now Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles reopens and hopes to salve his own country's wounds with I'm Still Here, adapted from a 2015 memoir by Marcelo Rubens Paiva. In 1971, Paiva's father Rubens, a former congressman turned civil engineer, was taken from his home, never to be seen again.

New Jersey Symphony will present "How to Train Your Dragon" in Concert this summer

(NEWARK, NJ) -- New Jersey Symphony presents How to Train Your Dragon in Concert this summer with Lawrence Loh conducting. A winner with audiences and critics alike, the film by DreamWorks is a captivating and original story that combines humor, fire-breathing action, and epic adventure!

First Look Review - "The Quiet Ones"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-02-26
You can tell a lot about a nation by its heist movies. British capers usually expect us to root for the criminals and possess an anti-authoritarian streak, with cheeky chappy working class heroes striking back at the establishment. American heist thrillers tend to be more moralistic, usually ultimately siding with law and order and portraying the criminals as trigger-happy sociopaths. France's heist movies usually focus on the mechanics of the heist itself, highlighting the ingenuity and professionalism of the men involved.

New Release Review - "The Monkey"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-02-24
WW Jacobs' 1902 short story 'The Monkey's Paw' might be the most influential work in the horror genre. In the century since its publication we've received countless novels, stories, plays, TV shows and films that riff on its "be careful what you wish for" template. With his 1980 short story 'The Monkey', Stephen King playfully acknowledged the influence of Jacobs on his chosen field, but rather than merely a paw he presented readers with a whole damn monkey. An organ-grinder's monkey to be precise, one that causes death whenever it's wound-up and its cymbals crash.

New Release Review - "To A Land Unknown"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-02-19
Films tackling the experience of refugees in Europe have mostly been authored by filmmakers from the sort of European countries that attract refugees. In attempting to empathise with people whose experiences they could never really comprehend, such filmmakers tend to deliver well intentioned yet patronising portrayals of refugees as angelic figures victimised by various cruel and exploitative systems.

Spring 2025 New Jersey Film Festival adds benefit screening of the film Bucha on March 2!

by Vic Fern
published 2025-02-16
The Spring 2025 New Jersey Film Festival has added a benefit and out of competition screening to the line-up! They will be screening Bucha on Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 5PM in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901.

New Release Review - "The Dead Thing"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-02-15
The idea of falling in love with the undead has long been mined for cheap laughs in horror-comedies. With his directorial debut The Dead Thing, Elric Kane (known to movie geeks as a host of the Pure Cinema podcast) takes this idea and plays it straight, using the concept of being in love with a ghost/zombie for an exploration of earthly isolation in an era where we seem to be more connected than ever before, and yet there's never been so much loneliness.

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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

UCPAC

UCPAC Film Fest 2025
Friday, May 16, 2025 @ 11:00am
Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) - Main Stage
1601 Irving Street, Rahway, NJ 07065

UCPAC

UCPAC Film Fest 2025
Saturday, May 17, 2025 @ 11:00am
Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) - Main Stage
1601 Irving Street, Rahway, NJ 07065

UCPAC

UCPAC Film Fest 2025
Sunday, May 18, 2025 @ 11:00am
Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) - Main Stage
1601 Irving Street, Rahway, NJ 07065

Freeing

Freeing Juanita - Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 7PM!
Sunday, June 01, 2025 @ 7:00pm
NJ Film Festival
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

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