Daily Archives: July 10, 2021

Movie Review: Friends film a dead colleague’s long-planned vampire movie — “Holy Beasts”

“Holy Beasts (“La Fiera y la Fiesta)” is a movie about making a movie, an “art film” about old friends gathering to make a murdered filmmaker’s long-planned dream project in his native Santo Domingo. Geraldine Chaplin plays the aged actress … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Maori “Cousins” search for their lost kin

No movie I’ve seen this year has hit me harder than “Cousins.” This heartfelt, emotionally wrenching story set among New Zealand’s indigenous Maori is poetry on screen, a compact saga of one extended family’s history and the lost cousin that … Continue reading

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