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Short Redhead Reel Reviews date from 1986 to present. This main page lists the five most recent film reviews. To view a complete list of all films reviewed this month, see Previous Reviews on the right. |
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 |
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100 Yards |
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NR 2024 |
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[Opens Nov. 8 in theaters.] Spectacular cinematography, martial arts choreography, sets, costumes, and visuals dominate Xu Haofeng and Xu Junfeng's captivating, original, action-packed, fast-paced, highly-stylized, creative, artistic, violent,108-minute thriller highlighted by wonderful architecture and minimal dialogue in which a famous master (Guo Long) of the martial arts academy in Tianjin, China, names his apprentice (Andy On) rather than his disappointed son (Jacky Heung) as his successor on his deathbed in the 1920s, and when the son rejects the seemingly more respectable position as a banker and is determined to regain his rightful place as his father's successor, it triggers a chaotic power struggle among rival martial arts schools.
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7 Fois (7 Times) |
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NR 2024 |
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[Screens in November at the Aesthetica Film Festival that runs Nov. 6-10 in the U.K.; for more information, log on to https://www.asff.co.uk.] Christine Wiederkehr's poignant, award-winning, factually inspired, realistic, well-acted, thought-provoking, 16-minute film in which a shy, juice-loving, immigrant student (Vidal Arzoni), who lives with his hardworking mother (Manu Annonik), meets the pregnant mistress (Luna Wedler) of his tutor (Antonin Schopfer) and together they share their disturbing secrets.
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Meow! |
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NR 2024 |
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[Screens at the Norwich Film Festival that runs Nov. 11-24; for more information, log on to www.norwichfilmfestival.co.uk.] When a beloved cat, Meow, disappears in Michal Vojt?ch and Ariel De La Garza Davidoff's poignant, arty, wacky, surreal, absurd, 14-minute film, a young woman (Paige Janey Paige) experiences a series of challenges in her unproductive efforts to recover her cat, but when she returns home and finds Meow sitting dispassionately staring at her and then walking away it may suggest perhaps that the things for which we struggle so hard to obtain or possess will not prove satisfying in the end.
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paSSive poWers |
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NR 2024 |
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[Screens in November at the Aesthetica Film Festival that runs Nov. 6-10 in the U.K.; for more information, log on to https://www.asff.co.uk.] J.B. Ghuman Jr.'s surreal, ethereal, visually fascinating, entertaining, experimental, sonic visual "3D 8K 360 VR," 10-minute movie, which was filmed on a 11K Insta360 TITAN camera, that intersperses various sensory mediums, including cerebral, chanting, and breathing.
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Spectrum |
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NR 2024 |
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[Available currently on YouTube.] Rick Stanton's compelling, black-and-white, poignant, well-acted, 31-minute film that follows the life of an autistic, videogame-playing Englishman (Steven Stanton), who lives with his mother (Sarita Gabony), attends group therapy sessions with other members, loves superheroes such as Batman, and has a chance to be a superhero when a thug (Simon Berry) brutally attacks a woman walking on her way home while a witness (Caro Breton) fortunately taped the incident to prove to the police (Kezie Ejibe and Gassan Abdulrazek) that the autistic man was innocent not the attacker.
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©2024 by Wendy Schadewald
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