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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.




 

New Release Review - "Good Boy"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-10-11

We're in the midst of a wave of horror movies that take well-worn concepts and refresh them with unusual perspectives. In a Violent Nature told its standard slasher plot from the POV of its Jason Vorhees-like killer. Presence was a haunted house thriller shot from the first person perspective of a ghost. Skinamarink was...well, whatever Skinamarink was. Ben Leonberg's directorial debut Good Boy is a horror movie with a rather unremarkable plot about a man succumbing to a malevolent spirit in a haunted house, but what makes the film remarkable is its perspective, that of a dog.



New Release Review - "Play Dirty"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-10-09

The professional thief known as "Parker" is the protagonist of a series of pulpy crime novels by author Donald E. Westlake's Richard Stark alter ego. The first actor to portray Parker on screen was Lee Marvin in John Boorman's 1967 arthouse thriller Point Blank. The Parker of Boorman's film was a stoic figure, and that's generally how he's been depicted in the many subsequent adaptations of Westlake/Stark's books. As played by Mark Wahlberg, the Parker of Shane Black's Play Dirty is similarly sardonic, but the world Black and co-writers Charles Mondry and Anthony Bagarozzi create around him is now positively cartoonish, a far cry from the grittiness of Point Blank and 1973's The Outfit, the two best Parker movies to date.



Teaneck International Film Festival presents "Lilly" as Closing Film

(TEANECK, NJ) -- The Teaneck International Film Festival's 20th year program will close with the feature film, Lilly, on Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 7:30pm, at Temple Emeth (1666 Windsor Rd) in Teaneck. The film, based on the true story of Lilly Ledbetter, whose fight for equal rights in the workplace led to state and national legislation, is sponsored by YWCA of Northern New Jersey, Senator Loretta Weinberg, National Council of Jewish Women Bergen County Section, Shahanaz Arjumand, and WOW (Women of Wisdom).



Winners of the Fall 2025 New Jersey Film Festival Competition!

by Al Nigrin
published 2025-10-06

The competition component of the Fall 2025 New Jersey Film Festival has just concluded! Overall, we had a good festival this year. I want to thank all of the filmmakers, cast and crew who came to the in-person screenings for coming to talk about their films. Here below are the winners of the Fall 2025 New Jersey Film Festival.