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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. |
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 |
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Back to the Drive-In |
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NR 2023 |
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[Available March 14 on various digital platforms.] April Wright's informative, interesting, behind-the-scenes, insightful, 105-minute documentary that consists of candid interview snippets with "ma and pa" drive-in owners, including Jennifer Miller of Brazos Drive-in in Texas, Rod and Donna Saunders of Field of Dreams Drive-In in Ohio, Jeff and Jennifer Karls of Quasar Drive-In Nebraska, D. Edward Vogel of Bengies Drive-In in Maryland, Leigh Van Swall and Dwight Grimm of Greenville Drive-In in Kentucky, Brian Smith of Coyote Drive-In in Texas, Rick Cohen of Transit Drive-In in New York, Ben and Nora Harroun of Harvest Moon Drive-In in Illinois, John Vincent of Wellfleet Drive-In in Massachusetts, Marsha and Martin Murray of Galaxy Drive-In in Texas, and Frank Huttinger of Mission Tiki Drive-In in California, who discuss their passion, challenges, and struggles of owning and operating a drive-in during and after the pandemic.
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Chronicles of a Wandering Saint |
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NR 2023 |
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[Screens March 12 at 2:45 p.m., March 14 at 5:30 p.m., and March 16 at 11:00 a.m. during the SXSW Film Festival that runs March 10-19; for more information, log on to https://www.sxsw.com.] Tomás Gómez Bustillo's captivating, original, quirky, well-acted, multifaceted, unusual, thought-provoking, 85-minute film in which a devout, floor-polishing, scheming, elderly chapel keeper (Mónica Villa), who neglects her devoted husband (Horacio Marassi), is desperate to be declared a saint and to be the most admired by competitive, singing congregants (Ana Silvia, Mackenzie Silvia Porro, et al.) in her small Argentinean village, and when she claims to the priest (Pablo Moseinco) to have found the religious Santa Rita statute that was supposedly stolen years earlier and he then proclaims it a miracle, she is excited until her life does not go as expected after her car lands in a creek and she is visited by a rules-spouting angel (Nahiel Correa Dornell).
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Cram |
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NR 2023 |
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[Available March 17 on various digital platforms.] When a stressed-out, slacker college student (John DiMino) pulls an all nighter at the library desperately trying to write his final paper and his work suddenly vanishes in Abie Sidell's creepy, oddball, dark, nightmarish, 43-minute horror film, he begins to experience strange, frightening hallucinations and meets the menacing Master of the Books (Brandon E. Burton).
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Endless Sea |
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NR 2023 |
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[Plays March 19 in the short film showcase Shortcuts from Deeper Into Movies; for more information, log on to www.deepermovies.com.] After an elderly woman (Brenda Cullerton), who is on Medicare in New York City, learns that her co-pay for her heart medication has increased to $356 and does not have the money in Sam Shainberg's powerful, award-winning, factually based, poignant, realistic, down-to-earth, timely, 19-minute film, she pleads with an unhelpful pharmacist, her estranged daughter, and a Social Security Administration clerk to assist her and when they refuse, she resorts to a last-ditch effort.
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Funny Face |
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NR 2023 |
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[Plays as part of the 2023 SXSW Festival that runs March 10-19; for more information, log on to www.sxsw.com.] After her transsexual girlfriend (Jude Hope Harris) goes through a 10-hour facial feminization operation and returns home to recover in Jude Hope Harris' engaging, realistic, factually inspired, humorous, 15-minute autobiographical film, her supportive actor girlfriend (Krista Fatka) and her country singer brother (Charlie Harrison) try to help her using a little humor and pot when it turns out that the home health nurse (Marieve Herington) is worthless at her job.
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©2023 by Wendy Schadewald
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