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Published in The Black Cape

·Sep 11

TIFF 22: ‘The Umbrella Men’ Offers Laughs, a Caper, Colonial History, and Beautiful South African Scenery

Lovers of a good caper film want to see certain things. The first is sound reasoning for the heist. Next is a novel way to conceal the job. Then, we need a complex set of side stories and a quirky band of characters. Umbrella Men has all of that and…

Review

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TIFF 22: ‘The Umbrella Men’ Offers Laughs, History and Mystery in Beautiful South African Scenery

Published in The Black Cape

·Sep 8

TIFF 22: A Guide to What’s Black And Playing at TIFF 2022

The Venice International Film Festival is tapering off, and from what we hear so far, there are no “Black films” at the festival. This led us to go over to the Toronto International Film Festival schedule to see what’s Black over there. It’s hella Black over there! TIFF 2022 has…

Black Film

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TIFF 22: A Guide to What’s Black And Playing at TIFF 2022

Published in The Black Cape

·Aug 29

HSFF22: ‘Little Cuts’ Offers Some Justice for the Doormat Friend

Some of us have been in an unequal friendship. The ones where a dominant, more popular friend takes from the other without much reciprocation. The star friend believes that their presence and status are enough. The caretaker friend is the other part of this equation. They are the doormat, the…

Short Film

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HSFF22: ‘Little Cuts’ Offers Some Justice for the Doormat Friend

Published in The Black Cape

·Aug 29

HSFF22: ‘Shark’ Offers a Darkly Comedic Cautionary Tale

“Pranksters Gon’ Prank” should be the subtitle for Sharks. Jack and Sofie (Nash Edgerton and Rose Byrne) are the couples who prank everyone and use anything to do it. One prank had Jack scrambling from bed to get dressed as Sofie was bleeding from a severed finger. Or so he…

Short Film

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HSFF22: ‘Shark’ Offers a Darkly Comedic Cautionary Tale

Published in The Black Cape

·Aug 29

HSFF22: ‘The Housesitters’ is an Absurdist Take on a Possibly True Story

Director Graham High gives us the most wonderfully absurd horror short, aptly placed in the Dark Comedy shorts category. Matt McConkey and Erin Pineda are the vapidest housesitters you will ever see. They are staying in the home of their famous friend Jules (and gossiping about her as she stole…

Hollyshorts

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HSFF22: ‘The Housesitters’ is an Absurdist Take on a Possibly True Story

Published in The Black Cape

·Aug 4

Fantasia 2022: ‘Cult Hero’ Skewers Youtubers, ‘Karens,’ and Passive Toxic Masculinity in One Silly Dark Comedy

I needed someone to warn me that this film starts out gory. So, I am telling you. Cult Hero is a dark comedy that delves deep into YouTube culture and the busybody Karen. These two combined with the theme of cults and obsessive religious behavior to create a film that…

Horror

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Fantasia 2022: ‘Cult Hero’ Skewers Youtubers, ‘Karens,’ and Passive Toxic Masculinity in One Silly…

Published in The Black Cape

·Aug 3

Fantasia 2022: ‘Honeycomb’ Continues the Tradition of Teen Girls with Twisted and Deadly Intentions

American cinema has a lengthy history of dark dramas that feature teen girls. Specifically white teen girls who come together under the guise of friendship. The Heathers is one that comes to mind, as does Mean Girls and even Midsommar. Honeycomb is a little indie horror that…

Fantasia

4 min read

Published in The Black Cape

·Jul 31

Review: ‘Loot’ Presents Maya Rudolph in an Overblown Comedy Flirting with Real-Life Problems

If you watched Maya Rudolph during her stint on Saturday Night Live, you know that she is the queen at taking some real, mundane characters and blowing them up to hatch their flaws into the root of a lot of chaos. She brings that ability to Apple TV’s Loot. Molly…

Features

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Review: ‘Loot’ Presents Maya Rudolph in an Overblown Comedy Flirting with Real-Life Problems

Published in The Black Cape

·Jul 29

8 Behind-the-Scene Facts We Learned from Our Talk with Prime Video’s ‘Paper Girls’

Fans of the Paper Girls comics are in for a treat with the live-action series adapted from the Brian Vaughn series. Set at several points across time, Paper Girls follows a group of girls thrown together by a job they really didn’t like and bullying boys they liked…

Features

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8 Behind-the-Scene Facts We Learned from Our Talk with Prime Video’s ‘Paper Girls’

Published in The Black Cape

·Jul 27

SDCC 2022: The DCEU Shares Their Electrifying Lineup

Hall H once again lit up the crowds at San Diego Comic-Con with sneak peeks and an overload of info on two hot titles coming to theaters this fall. Shazam Fury of the Gods and Black Adam both came in with big views and some imagery that fans have been…

Feature

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SDCC 2022: The DCEU Shares Their Electrifying Lineup