Good Bad Things (Stanger, 2024)
Good Bad Things is a winsome indie romance from Music Box about a guy with Muscular Dystrophy who finds the woman of his dreams (of all our dreams really) on… Continue reading "Good Bad Things (Stanger, 2024)"
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The Librarians (Snyder, 2025)
Kim A. Snyder’s Newtown was one of my favorite films of 2016, so I walked into The Librarians with understandably high expectations. As with Snyder’s gut-punching portrait of Sandy Hook… Continue reading "The Librarians (Snyder, 2025)"
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Speak (Tiexiera and Mossman, 2025)
Speak is this year’s feel-good film at Full Frame, and it comes with all the feels one wants and needs from a festival crowd-pleaser. I have mentioned elsewhere that film… Continue reading "Speak (Tiexiera and Mossman, 2025)"
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Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story (O’Shea, 2024)
Blue Road is a sad film, at times angry but never bitter. The title originates from a line in one of O’Brien’s early books that her husband insisted was wrong… Continue reading "Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story (O’Shea, 2024)"
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William Tell (Hamm, 2024)
I spent the first ninety minutes of WIlliam Tell muttering, “Okay, this is better than I expected.” I spent the last forty minutes ready for it to be over. The… Continue reading "William Tell (Hamm, 2024)"
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King of Kings (Seong-ho Jang, 2025)
King of Kings is neither the best nor the worst animated Jesus film I have seen. Whether that is an endorsement depends largely on the target audience. After the unexpected… Continue reading "King of Kings (Seong-ho Jang, 2025)"
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Mistress Dispeller (Lo, 2025)
I have been going to Full Frame for almost fifteen years, and Mistress Dispeller is the only film I can think of that I’ve screened at the festival where I… Continue reading "Mistress Dispeller (Lo, 2025)"
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Full Frame 2025 — Quick Hits
I should have plenty of feature reviews from this year’s festival, but I also wanted to set up a page for some shorts or smaller films that help make this… Continue reading "Full Frame 2025 — Quick Hits"
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WTO/99
Has it really been over a quarter of a century since the events chornicled in Battle in Seattle? I haven’t thought much about the end-of-the-century protests to the first meeting… Continue reading "WTO/99"
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Helen and the Bear (Blair, 2025)
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has announced its programming for the 2025 festival, and one of the most anticipated films is Helen and the Bear. The film, a portrait… Continue reading "Helen and the Bear (Blair, 2025)"