After feeling inspired by voting in a local election, Katherine Herrera decides to run for Mayor of McAllen and enlists the help of her unfulfilled, unhappy, and unqualified millennial friends to launch her campaign and get her elected. Headstrong and determined, a mixture of Leslie Knope and Selina Meyer, she dives straight into the world […]

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A young lawyer recovering from an abusive childhood and addiction is ill-equipped to cope with the relentless demands of work, love and family, when she takes a radical step into an underground kinky society to moonlight as a dominatrix reclaiming control of her own life. CAST LIST: Narration: Kat Smiley Zoe: Pascale Behrman — Producer/Director: […]

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CAST LIST: Narrator: Allison Kampf M (F): Julie Sheppard BOND/Bart (M): Geoff Mays Homer (M): Allan Michael Brunet Marge/Lisa (F): Alicia Payne — Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Ryan Haines, John Johnson Festival Directors: Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy Camera Operators: Ryan Haines, Temitope […]

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Director: Guy Ritchie Writer: Guy Ritchie Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Hugh Grant For many, that The Gentlemen represents a return for Guy Ritchie to the London crime flicks that he made his name on will be cause for celebration, but for me the prospect is rather galling. As someone who has never liked Ritchie’s output in the […]

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Director: Sam Mendes Writers: Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns Starring: George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman If there’s one indisputable fact about 1917, it’s that the film is masterpiece of technical achievement. Constructed as a sequence of extensive sustained shots, threaded together as if the entire film is taking place in one entirely continuous movement (though the seams of Lee […]

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Director: Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah Writers: Chris Bremmer and Peter Craig and Joe Carnahan Starring: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Paola Núñez As, respectively, his graduation into feature filmmaking and the first film he made with no restraints of any kind, earthly, morally, or financially, the first two Bad Boys movies represent the emergence and crystallization of […]

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Director: Nicolas Pesce Writer: Nicolas Pesce Starring: Andrea Riseborough, John Cho, Demián Bichir Whether in its original Japanese incarnation Ju-On or in its Americanized form, The Grudge has always been a solid-enough concept in an everlasting search for a worthy movie, with iterations ranging in quality from merely dull to truly dire. The series is an icon of J-Horror without […]

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The end for the Daniel Craig era of Bond is imminent with the impending release of No Time to Die. After fourteen years, five movies – two all-timers, one bastion of mediocrity, one outright car-wreck, and one as-yet-unknown-but-hopefully-brilliant finale – and enough whiplash-inducing variance between euphoric highs and despondent lows to wonder if the whole […]

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Director: Jeff Wadlow Writers: Jillian Jacobs & Christopher Roach & Jeff Wadlow Starring: Lucy Hale, Maggie Q, Michael Peña Over the last thirteen years, Blumhouse has risen from upstart to conqueror. Operating in the ever-lucrative, creatively liberate realm of genre cinema, and given initial steam by the gargantuan return-on-investment of the Paranormal Activity films, Jason Blum’s […]

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Director: Alan Yang Writer: Alan Yang Starring: Tzi Ma, Fiona Fu, Christine Ko With Tigertail, director/writer/producer Alan Yang paints a picture of the mid-century immigrant experience that’s strikingly tender and deftly told, replete with the kind of personal detail that imbues its modesty with an interior life that’s bold and touching and grasps greatness with frequency enough to forgive […]

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