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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. |
Monday, October 12, 2026 |
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Marge |
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P[Premiered at the Beyond Fest Film festival 2026 that ran from Sept. 24 to Oct. 6.]Julia Kern and Michael Prieto's award-winning, chilling, well-acted, intense, disturbing, 15-minute film in which a twentysomething daughter (Devon Ross) learns that she is pregnant and after delivery, decides to enter the forbidden room of her eccentric, cigarette-smoking mother (Rachel Matthews) when a baby monitor goes off and discovers that her mother is a serial killer, which makes her wonder whether she could pass her mother`s horrible tendencies to her infant daughter.
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Blades of the Guardians: Wind Rises in the Desert |
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[Available Oct. 6 on DVD and 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray™ combo pack.] Stunning martial arts choreography and battle sequences, and wonderful sets dominate Yeun Woo-Ping's visually striking, highly entertaining, suspenseful, action-packed, fast-paced, wit-dotted, violent, 126-minute wuxia film based on Xu Xianzhe's comic book in which a Chinese bounty hunter (Wu Jing) looks after his precious, orphaned, 7-year-old nephew (Charles Ju) during the Sui Dynasty (581-618 A.D.) while escorting and protecting the mysterious, most-wanted Flower Rebellion leader (Sun Yizhou) across the stark Gobi Desert and battling hordes of bad guys (Jet Li, Cisha, Nicholas Tse, Max Zhang, and Kara Hui) with the help of the arrow-wielding daughter (Chen Lijun) of a respected clan chief (Tony Leung Ka-fai).
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Holding Liat |
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[Available Oct. 2 on various digital platforms.] Brandon Kramer's powerful, sensitive, award-winning, poignant, deeply moving, heartbreaking, thought-provoking, 97-minute documentary triggers fear, grief, uncertainty, and the conflicting perspectives about Israel, Gaza, and their war-torn future following the horrific aftermath of the kidnapping of Israeli-American Liat Beinin Atzili and her husband Aviv from the Kibbutz on Oct. 7, 2023, by the Hamas which causes her family to be the center of a global political conflict.
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Scout, The |
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{Opens Oct. 2 at DTLA's Alamo Drafthouse and nationwide.] Paula González-Nasser's factually inspired, quietly absorbing, intimate, and subtly funny, 89-minute character study in which an unpaid-parking-ticket-collecting, an emotionally struggling location scout (Mimi Davila) researches and photographs locations in New York City for a television show pilot and tries to connect to owners, including a lonely woman (Rutanya Alda) whose son lives in London, an eccentric pet shop owner (Matt Barats), a father (Max Rosen) caring for his infant son, and a pregnant friend (Otmara Marrero), while discussing their homes and lives in the Big Apple.
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Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!" |
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[Opens Sept. 25 in theaters.] Exquisite dance sequences and wonderful choreography dominate Josef Kubota Wladyka's emotionally-driven, well-written, superbly acted, moving, 122-minute film in which a ballroom dancer (Rinko Kikuchi) in Japan struggles to get her life and career back on track after her charming Mexican husband (Alejandro Edda) dies of a massive heart attack during a competitive dance number in Tokyo, and tensions rise when her equally stubborn father-in-law wants his talented son buried in Mexico and her heartbeat goes a flutter when she meets a charismatic dance instructor (Alberto Guerra).
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©2026 by Wendy Schadewald
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