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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.



State Theatre New Jersey presents Jim Henson's Labyrinth: In Concert

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey presents Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: In Concert on Friday, May 2, 2025 at 7:30pm. For the first time, Jim Henson’s original masterpiece and musical fantasy film Labyrinth, starring the iconic David Bowie, will transport fans to Goblin City in an exciting fusion of film and live music on stage. Labyrinth in Concert will start with a costume contest on stage. Winners will walk away with some fabulous merchandise.





New Release Review - "A Working Man"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-04-05

Today's employers expect far too much from their workers. They expect you to work through your lunch. To stay on an extra half hour without overtime. To answer phone calls, texts and emails outside of office. To start a war with the Russian mob when your boss's daughter gets herself abducted.



First Look Review - "The Luckiest Man in America"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-04-04

Paul Walter Hauser is best known for portraying one of the unluckiest men in America, the title character of Clint Eastwood's Richard Jewell. Perhaps it's only fitting then that he should now find himself headlining The Luckiest Man in America.



New Release Review - "Misericordia"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-03-29

French cinema is full of melodramas in which various characters lose their minds over some desirable nymphet. They're usually played for laughs (Gemma Bovery), but sometimes for thrills (One Deadly Summer). With Misericordia, writer/director Alain Guiraudie mines this setup for both black comedy and even darker thrills, delivering a devilishly queer take on a Gallic storytelling staple.



UCPAC to screen "The Godfather" in 35mm

(RAHWAY, NJ) -- It is often found among lists of the best films in history and likely quoted by someone you know on a regular basis; but have you ever seen The Godfather in the movie theater? You can on Thursday, April 17, 2025 when a 35mm screening takes place at the Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) at 7:00pm.



New Release Review - "Sew Torn"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-03-26

Movies about super intelligent characters often fail to convince because they're clearly not made by super intelligent filmmakers who possess the ability to think as smartly as their fictional creations. Sew Torn is a comic thriller about a very smart and resourceful young woman, and it works because its first time writer/director, Freddy Macdonald, is clearly a mad genius himself. It's not often I find myself thinking "that's something I haven't seen before" while watching a new movie, but it's a thought that crossed my mind at several points in Macdonald's debut, which is an expansion of his 2019 short of the same name.


 

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" I WILL REVENGE THIS WORLD WITH LOVE" S.PARADJANOV – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 5PM!

 Sunday, September 14, 2025 @ 5:00pm
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 Sunday, September 21, 2025 @ 7:00pm
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