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Author: Rachel Bellwoar

Film Reviews 

When Peter Cushing Was The Doctor — The ‘Doctor Who’ Films Reviewed

It’s easy to watch Dr. Who and the Daleks today and forget what a big deal it would’ve been to

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November 11, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 3018 Views Blu-Ray, Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D, Doctor Who, Dr. Who and the Daleks, Kino Lorber, Peter Cushing
Film Reviews 

A Rocky Magic Carpet Ride: ‘The Wonders Of Aladdin’ Reviewed

There are two kinds of people who get three wishes: the kind that can make their dreams come true and

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November 9, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2701 Views Blu-Ray, Kino Lorber, The Wonders of Aladdin
Events Film 

29th Philadelphia Film Festival: Quick Takes And Top 5 Films

Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness Written and Directed by Massoud Bakhshi What if trials were carried out like American Idol,

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November 6, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2390 Views Marionette Land, PFF29, Philadelphia Film Festival, The Vigil, Yalda a Night for Forgiveness
Film Reviews 

Film Review — ‘Koko-Di, Koko-Da’

Music boxes are supposed to be comforting. You wind one up at night to lull yourself to sleep. The things

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November 6, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2112 Views Dark Star Pictures, Koko-Di Koko-Da
Events Film 

29th Philadelphia Film Festival: ‘Night of the Kings’ Reviewed

Night of the Kings Written and Directed by Philippe Lacôte We never learn Roman’s real name. “Roman” is what the inmates

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November 5, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2093 Views Night of the Kings, PFF29, Philadelphia Film Festival
Events Film Reviews 

29th Philadelphia Film Festival: ‘Pink Skies Ahead’ Reviewed

Pink Skies Ahead Written and Directed by Kelly Oxford While most people have probably heard of the walk and talk from

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November 5, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2124 Views PFF29, Philadelphia Film Festival, Pink Skies Ahead
Events Film 

29th Philadelphia Film Festival: ‘Black Bear’ Reviewed

Black Bear Written and Directed by Lawrence Michael Levine Any writer who’s ever responded to a writing prompt knows there

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November 4, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2168 Views Black Bear, PFF29, Philadelphia Film Festival, Pink Skies Ahead
Events Film 

29th Philadelphia Film Festival: ‘Preparations To Be Together For An Unknown Period Of Time’ Reviewed

Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time Written and Directed by Lili Horvát What if Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

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November 3, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2869 Views Károly Szalai, Natasha Stork), PFF29, Philadelphia Film Festival, Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time, Viktor Bodó
Events Film 

29th Philadelphia Film Festival: ‘Sylvie’s Love’ Reviewed

Sylvie’s Love Written and Directed by Eugene Ashe If there was an award for most beautiful looking film in this

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November 2, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2389 Views Aja Naomi King, Amazon Prime, Declan Quinn, Eugene Ashe, Mayne Berke, Nnamdi Asomugha, PFF29, Philadelphia Film Festival, Phoenix Mellow, Sylvie's Love, Tessa Thompson
Events Film 

29th Philadelphia Film Festival: ‘Ema’ Reviewed

Ema Directed by Pablo Larraín Screenplay by Pablo Larraín, Guillermo Calderón, and Alejandro Moreno No one is going to argue with the

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November 1, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2054 Views Alejandro Moreno, Cristián Suárez, Ema, Gael García Bernal, Guillermo Calderón, Mariana Di Girólamo, Pablo Larraín, PFF29, Philadelphia Film Festival
Events Film Reviews 

29th Philadelphia Film Festival: ‘The House Of Us’ Reviewed

Written and Directed by Yoon Ga-eun Before we meet Hana’s parents, we hear them. While her older brother, Chan (Ahn

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October 30, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2093 Views PFF29, Philadelphia Film Festival, The House of Us
Events Film 

29th Philadelphia Film Festival: ‘The Boy Behind The Door’ Reviewed

The Boy Behind the Door Written and Directed by David Charbonier and Justin Powell From la de da, look at

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October 29, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2236 Views Ezra Dewey, Lonnie Chavis, PFF29, Philadelphia Film Festival, The Boy Behind the Door
Events Film 

29th Philadelphia Film Festival: ‘Little Fish’ Reviewed

Little Fish Directed by Chad Hartigan Screenplay by Mattson Tomlin After missing Olivia Cooke’s film, Thoroughbreds, at the Philadelphia Film Festival

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October 28, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2305 Views Chad Hartigan, Jack O’Connell, Little Fish, Mattson Tomlin, PFF29, Philadelphia Film Festival, Rául Castillo
Events Film 

29th Philadelphia Film Festival: ‘One Of These Days’ Reviewed

One of These Days Written and Directed by Bastian Günther What would you do for a new car? As recently

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October 26, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2271 Views One of These Days, PFF29, Philadelphia Film Festival, Spring Blossom
Comics Reviews 

Advanced Review: ‘Legacy Of Mandrake The Magician #1’ Introduces Mandy Paz To The World Of Magic

As long as you have a ComiXology account, Red 5 have made it easy to download the new zero issue

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October 26, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2571 Views Diego Giribaldi, Erica Schultz, Legacy of Mandrake the Magician, Lucas Romero, Mandrake The Magician, Martin Casanova, Ramon Bunge, Red 5 Comics
Film Reviews 

Blu-Ray Review: Carole Lombard Attends A Seance In ‘Supernatural’

Here’s an idea you might not have considered. What if copycat killers weren’t to blame for their murders? What if

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October 24, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2616 Views Blu-Ray, Kino Lorber, Supernatural
Comics Reviews 

Pretty Maids All In A Row: Katie Skelly’s ‘Maids’ Reviewed

Unless you’re aware of the Papin Sisters going in, Katie Skelly’s Maids doesn’t wear it’s true crime origins on its

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October 21, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2332 Views Fantagraphics, katie skelly, Maids
Film Reviews 

Joel Dreams The Impossible Dream — ‘Love And Monsters’ Reviewed

Horror films are never hard to come by in October. Those in need of some more family-friendly picks this year,

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October 16, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2480 Views Dylan O'Brien, Love and Monsters, Paramount Pictures, Teen Wolf
Events Film 

Nightstream Film Festival Capsule Review – ‘AV: The Hunt’

AV: The Hunt Directed by Emre Akay Written by Emre Akay and Deniz Cuylan Like Hunted (which also streamed at Nightstream),

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October 15, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2208 Views Ahmet Rifat Sungar, AV: The Hunt, Billur Melis Koç, Deniz Cuylan, Emre Akay, Nightstream, Yilmaz Erdem
Events Film 

Nightstream Film Festival Capsule Reviews: ‘Reunion’ And ‘Rose Plays Julie’

Reunion Written and Directed by Jake Mahaffy Sell the house or finish her novel? Both are reasons Ellie (Emma Draper) might

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October 14, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2487 Views Alan Howley, Anne Skelly, Emma Draper, Jake Mahaffy, Julia Ormond, Nightstream, Orla Brady, Reunion, Rose Plays Julie
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Nightstream Film Festival Review: ‘The Morbido Crypt’s Guide To Mexican Fantasy And Horror Cinema’

Hosted by Abraham Castillo Flores and brought to Nightstream by the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, this isn’t the first

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October 12, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2117 Views Abraham Castillo Flores, Nightstream, The Morbido Crypt's Guide To Mexican Fantasy And Horror Cinema
TV 

NYCC 2020: ‘One Day At A Time’ Makes Its Network Debut On CBS

The pitfalls of pre-recording a comic con panel. One Day at a Time was supposed to start airing on CBS

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October 12, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2200 Views CBS, Netflix, Norman Lear, NYCC 2020, One Day at a Time, Pop TV, sitcoms
TV 

NYCC 2020: ‘A Discovery of Witches’ Returns January 9th In The US

It’s amazing how startling it is now to watch a panel where the cast members are sitting in the same

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October 11, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2535 Views A Discovery of Witches, All Souls Trilogy, Deborah Harkness, ITV, Shadow of Night, Shudder, Sky One, Sundance Now
Events Film 

Nightstream Film Festival Review — ‘Home Invasion: NYC Horror Shorts’ Block

“Shut Eye” Directed by Robert Gregson Written by Addison Anderson When you’re willing to take sleeping pills from a guy

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October 9, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2417 Views Decapitato: Consequenze Mortali, HBDTM, Home Invasion: NYC Horror Shorts, Lose It, Nightstream, Orisha, short films, The Door, The Howling Wind, The Three Men You Meet At Night
Events Film 

Nightstream Film Festival Capsule Reviews — ‘Detention’ and ‘Hunted’

Detention Directed by John Hsu Screenplay by Shih-Keng Chien, Kai Ling-Fu, and John Hsu When you break the rules in

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October 8, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2036 Views Detention, Hunted, Nightstream, Shudder
Film Reviews 

Double Dose Of Agatha Christie — ‘The Mirror Crack’d’ And ‘Death On The Nile’ Reviewed

Today, an all-star cast isn’t always the sign of a great movie. It gets people in seats, but once the

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October 7, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2635 Views Agatha Christie, Blu-Ray, Death on the Nile, Kino Lorber, The Mirror Crack'd
Comics Reviews 

In Kittyhawk We Trust — ‘Strangelands’ Volume 2 Reviewed

Who is Kittyhawk? Elakshi and Adam have asked that question before, but never from the deck of a cruise ship.

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October 5, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2120 Views a larger world studios, Darcie Little-Badger, Humanoids, Mags Visaggio, Rex Lokus, Strangelands, Vincenzo Federici
Film Reviews 

Carol Reed’s Other Post WWII Thriller: ‘The Man Between’ Reviewed

Your sister-in-law is acting suspicious. What do you do? A. Tell your brother B. Confront her C. Use mirrors to

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September 30, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 1955 Views 0 Comment Berlin, DVD, Kino Lorber, The Man Between
Comics 

Put Your Hands Up And Nobody Gets Bit: An Interview With The Creators Of ‘The Vain’

The Blood Bandits aren’t like other vampires. Instead of biting humans on the neck they rob hospitals to quench their

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September 28, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2504 Views Crank, Eliot Rahal, Emily Pearson, Fred C. Stresing, Macy Kahn, Oni Press, The Vain
Comics Reviews 

Love And Fairy Tales: An Advanced Review Of Trungles’ ‘The Magic Fish’

Trung Le Nguyen’s graphic novel, The Magic Fish, follows a strict color code. Real life is red, or rose. Fairy

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September 25, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 3695 Views Random House Graphic, The Magic Fish, Trung Le Nguyen
Comics Reviews 

Magic Always Comes With A Price: ‘Sabrina The Teenage Witch: Something Wicked’ #3 Reviewed

Picking up where issue #2 left off, issue #3 of Sabrina: Something Wicked finds Sabrina kneeling in what’s left of

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September 23, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 2602 Views Andy Fish, Archie Comics, Jack Morelli, Kelly Thompson, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sabrina: Something Wicked, Veronica Fish
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