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Pearl, the prequel to writer/director Ti West’s well-received shocker X, takes a character’s origin story—the kind usually dispensed as an afterthought in a couple of sentences of exposition or two minutes of black-and-white flashback footage—and turns it into an audacious, grandly operatic standalone experience.
Any truly personal and genuinely ambitious film that manages to get made in this safe-bet, profit-driven cinema landscape deserves a round of applause. And The Blazing World, actor Carlson Young’s feature film directorial debut, possesses both ambition and a decidedly personal touch in spades.
Of the small handful of feature films that have been rolled out in theaters and drive-ins in recent weeks, Shortcut (which opens …
There’s little point in restating the obvious, but I will anyway. We’re in the midst of a crisis, the magnitude of which …
