glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | aug. 2018 “Hereditary" has certainly proved to be a divisive movie. On the one hand there's the critics. Most professional film critics seemed to have loved...
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dustin skenandore | yl voice | aug. 2018 The documentary follows the return of the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Team to the world stage after their inability to participate in the 2010 world...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | july 2018 The Star Wars universe has proven to be a divisive one, splitting the critical and audience reception to near polar opposites, and into this...
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josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | july 2018 Oxford defines the word “bored" as “feeling weary because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one's current activity." How in this...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | june 2018 Breaking In Following the loss of her father, a mother of two kids, Shaun, visits her childhood home in order to sell it. That evening a gang...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | may 2018 It's an interesting, though not entirely original, premise for a film. Keep quiet, stay silent, do not make a sound or you will be picked off by a...
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josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | april 2018 What is the line between artistic integrity and greed? When does it go from earning a living and the cost of doing business to "show me...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | april 2018 CG: An obvious one on the face of it but I'm not anti-CG so much as I am anti the laziness it can instill in a filmmakers art. There's a saying...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | march 2018 Let's get a few cards down on the table to start with. Black Panther isn't, as some apparently seem to think, the first black superhero or the...
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justin eagle gauthier | yl voice | feb. 2018 On a random summer afternoon during the mid-1950s, in a shack in the backwoods of North Carolina, a young Shawnee man stabs a screwdriver through...
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josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | feb. 2018 I have somewhat of a reputation for not liking newer films and 2017 did nothing to dissuade anyone of this. In fact, my disillusionment with...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | feb. 2018 We've been witness over the last three decades to a shift in the face of film art and the franchising of films has, in particular, changed the...
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josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | jan. 2018 Mr. Lobo and “Cinema Insomnia" might not be household names in terms of oddball programming but that may be changing. While we had...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | jan. 2018 Editor's Note: This review contains no major spoilers. It's been increasingly hard to get excited about most of the films that make up the...
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larry p. madden | yl voice | dec. 2017 Choctaw folklorist, writer and speaker Tim Tingle is a true storyteller in the Indian tradition. Tingle has told a version of the “No Name” story to...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | dec. 2017 Welcome to the second annual Naughty and Nice awards, the illustrious and 'So cult it's almost unheard of' celebration of the best and worst of...
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josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | nov. 2017 Two-hundred and forty scan lines by 320 scan lines of resolution was all that was needed to cause a revolution in not just video but in...
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justin eagle gauthier | yl voice | nov. 2017 A haunting poem is read behind the imagery of a bloodied young woman running barefoot and underdressed through the snow. She looks back and the...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | nov. 2017 As a critic I've lambasted many a movie for making no sense. Those moments when stuff just happens to serve the plot without explanation or reason...
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larry p. madden | yl voice | oct. 2017 I like highbrow stories as much as the next guy, but there's always room on my pallet for a good laugh. The marketing of some films makes it puzzling as...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | aug. 2018 “Hereditary" has certainly proved to be a divisive movie. On the one hand there's the critics. Most professional film critics seemed to have loved...
Screen - Reviews, Features
dustin skenandore | yl voice | aug. 2018 The documentary follows the return of the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Team to the world stage after their inability to participate in the 2010 world...
Screen - Reviews, Features
glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | july 2018 The Star Wars universe has proven to be a divisive one, splitting the critical and audience reception to near polar opposites, and into this...
Screen - Reviews, Features
josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | july 2018 Oxford defines the word “bored" as “feeling weary because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one's current activity." How in this...
Screen - Features Art - Features
glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | june 2018 Breaking In Following the loss of her father, a mother of two kids, Shaun, visits her childhood home in order to sell it. That evening a gang...
Screen - Reviews, Features
glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | may 2018 It's an interesting, though not entirely original, premise for a film. Keep quiet, stay silent, do not make a sound or you will be picked off by a...
Screen - Reviews, Features
josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | april 2018 What is the line between artistic integrity and greed? When does it go from earning a living and the cost of doing business to "show me...
Screen - Features
glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | april 2018 CG: An obvious one on the face of it but I'm not anti-CG so much as I am anti the laziness it can instill in a filmmakers art. There's a saying...
Screen - Features
glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | march 2018 Let's get a few cards down on the table to start with. Black Panther isn't, as some apparently seem to think, the first black superhero or the...
Screen - Reviews, Features
justin eagle gauthier | yl voice | feb. 2018 On a random summer afternoon during the mid-1950s, in a shack in the backwoods of North Carolina, a young Shawnee man stabs a screwdriver through...
Screen - Reviews, Features
josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | feb. 2018 I have somewhat of a reputation for not liking newer films and 2017 did nothing to dissuade anyone of this. In fact, my disillusionment with...
Screen - Features
glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | feb. 2018 We've been witness over the last three decades to a shift in the face of film art and the franchising of films has, in particular, changed the...
Screen - Features
josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | jan. 2018 Mr. Lobo and “Cinema Insomnia" might not be household names in terms of oddball programming but that may be changing. While we had...
Screen - Features
glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | jan. 2018 Editor's Note: This review contains no major spoilers. It's been increasingly hard to get excited about most of the films that make up the...
Screen - Reviews, Features
larry p. madden | yl voice | dec. 2017 Choctaw folklorist, writer and speaker Tim Tingle is a true storyteller in the Indian tradition. Tingle has told a version of the “No Name” story to...
Screen - Reviews, Features
glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | dec. 2017 Welcome to the second annual Naughty and Nice awards, the illustrious and 'So cult it's almost unheard of' celebration of the best and worst of...
Screen - Reviews, Features
josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | nov. 2017 Two-hundred and forty scan lines by 320 scan lines of resolution was all that was needed to cause a revolution in not just video but in...
Screen - Features
justin eagle gauthier | yl voice | nov. 2017 A haunting poem is read behind the imagery of a bloodied young woman running barefoot and underdressed through the snow. She looks back and the...
Screen - Reviews, Features
glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | nov. 2017 As a critic I've lambasted many a movie for making no sense. Those moments when stuff just happens to serve the plot without explanation or reason...
Screen - Features
larry p. madden | yl voice | oct. 2017 I like highbrow stories as much as the next guy, but there's always room on my pallet for a good laugh. The marketing of some films makes it puzzling as...
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