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Movie Review: Honeycomb

This psychedelic, experimental, low budget film is the Pinterest aesthetic board, tumblr feed energy and lofi Instagram reel of teenaged dreams, and much of its dialogue reads like meandering middle-of-the-night-sads tweets and melodramatic posts on the AllPoetry forums — all of which aids in the enjoyment of watching this debut feature.

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Movie Review: The Innocents

An absolutely gut-wrenching story exploring childhood grief, anger, and trauma through dark sci-fi with horror elements.

Four children from different households in one apartment complex forge a powerful and special bond of friendship.

It’s truly terrifying, emotionally raw, disturbing, and very unsettling.

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Movie Review: Medusa (2021)


A powerful reimagining of the Medusa mythology, and a biting satirical look at the pseudo religious hypocrisy of Evangelical Devour Christianity, “Medusa” is a modern day feminist tale of horror fantasy. Plenty of folks may find this lacking, and I can see the slow burn really getting their goat, but I absolutely loved this!

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Movie Review: Da Sweet Blood of Jesus - Directed by Spike Lee


Spike Lee doesn’t miss a beat when it comes to including exquisite pieces of African Art in nearly every frame, be it tribal and global, or modern and contemporary artists — it is so rich and luxe and adds so much to the atmosphere, as well as helping highlight character traits. The soundtrack alternates between piano score and hip-hop/R&B and always perfectly compliments the scene at hand. All of this truly makes for an absolutely spectacular ambiance and mood for this reimagining of the original Ganja and Hess.


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