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Film Review: ‘You Can See Everything’

BY WYATT ALLISON   You Can See Everything: A tonal deconstruction of modern documentary filmmaking Infamous convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos and once hailed the next Steve Jobs, has been through the media ringer for the past decade…

Film Review: ‘Love of Your Life’

BY WYATT ALLISON   …An honest, beautifully-shot pandemic drama that fulfills a warm craving   “Movies are dead,” is one of those common, overly fraught phrases you’ll see nowadays on social media, specifically Twitter/X, that comes in the wake of…

Film Review: ‘The History of Concrete’ – A visual gag of urban existentialism

BY WYATT ALLISON   There’s been a select few individuals in the film space who have dedicated themselves to making pieces of art that deal with political and cultural change in the world by creating idiosyncratic and idealist pieces of…

Film Review: ‘Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger’

BY WYATT ALLISON   A gossip-less exploration of reconciliation between rock n’ roll gods “Noel tells truths, half-truths, and lies, and in 25 years’ time you really won’t know the real Noel Gallagher,” was something printed by Paolo Hewitt, a…

Film Review: ‘It Ends’ — A thrilling debut of generational existentialistic heights

BY WYATT ALLISON   Gen-Z filmmakers have had themselves an imprint year on the cultural landscape, as producers scour YouTube for the next 20-something to make an exceedingly lucrative film right on the heels of summer hits like Obsession and…

Film Review: ‘Tony’ – A somber, tight-knit anti-biopic of Anthony Bourdain

BY WYATT ALLISON   Ever since I sat down to watch this film in late July, I’ve been on a bit of an Anthony Bourdain kick. The short Instagram clips have always been a part of my algorithm – mostly…

Film Review: “I Want Your Sex” – Olivia Wilde summer is in full commencement with Gregg Araki’s first feature film in 12 years

BY WYATT ALLISON   It can’t be overstated just how much of an impact classic Hollywood director Billy Wilder had on filmmakers. From laugh riots like Some Like It Hot and The Apartment to the full-blown dramas of Double Indemnity…

Film Review: ‘The Odyssey’ — Christopher Nolan’s towering epic is a blank check well cashed

BY WYATT ALLISON   This past weekend, I went to my local Regal Cinemas to get another glimpse at Olivia Wilde’s sex-farce comedy, The Invite. This film is amongst my favorite films of the year, mostly because of its bare-bones…

Film Review: ‘Disclosure Day’ — Spielberg’s new, emotionally-stunning sci-fi summer blockbuster

BY WYATT ALLISON   It was a strange day in Nashville this Monday — the Country Music Awards Festival-goers were heading out of town (thank God!), there was a flood warning and sunshine all within an hour, and elsewhere, the…

Film Review: ‘Tuner’ — An old-fashioned, thrilling exercise of 70’s cinema

BY WYATT ALLISON   In 1976, Dustin Hoffman was the star of a film called Marathon Man, that followed a hotshot Columbia grad embroiled in a plot through his brother, with an evil Nazi war dentist played by the stage/screen…

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