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HIFF2015: Movie Review – Three Windows and a Hanging (2014)

Narrative Feature / Festival Award Winner / Kosovo, Germany Director: Isa Qosja Writer: Zymber Kelmendi This review is part of my coverage of 2015’s Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis. Click here for more of my coverage of the festival. You can find my coverage of other Indianapolis area film and TV events here. Isa Qosja‘s Three Windows and a Hanging is an emotionally jarring look into the patriarchal society of a Kosovo village rebuilding after war ravaged their community and its people. When school teacher Lushe tells a reporter that she and three other women from the village were raped by Serbian troops, the male villagers react.

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HIFF2015: Movie Review – Peace Officer (2015)

Documentary Feature / USA Directors: Scott Christopherson, Brandon Barber This review is part of my coverage of 2015’s Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis. Click here for more of my coverage of the festival. You can find my coverage of other Indianapolis area film and TV events here. Peace Officer is a powerful documentary examining the escalating militarization of police forces […]

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Movie Review: Ex Machina (2015)

Alex Garland is responsible for writing two of my favorite movies in the last fifteen years. 28 Days Later and Sunshine were both collaborations between Garland and director Danny Boyle that told thought-provoking stories about humanity’s flaws and its willpower in a familiar but somehow original sci-fi or horror premise. Garland’s directorial debut Ex Machina follows this trend and leaves […]

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MCU Review: Part 1 – Iron Man (2008)

In what could be the biggest review series in the history of Obsessive Viewer, I’m committing myself to reviewing all the movies and shows in Marvel Studios’ Cinematic Universe. You can find an index of my MCU reviews here and check out The Obsessive Viewer Podcast here. Now, here’s my review of 2008’s Iron Man.

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Netflix Review: Bloodline – Season 1

In Netflix’s latest original series Bloodline, the Rayburns are a well-respected affluent family in the Florida Keys thanks to the inn and charter business started by patriarch Robert (Sam Shepard) and matriarch Sally (Sissy Spacek). But when the family’s black sheep son Danny (Ben Mendelsohn) comes home for a ceremony honoring his father, his return threatens to destroy the peaceful […]

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Movie Review: The Theory of Everything (2014)

In The Theory of Everything, director James Marsh paints a gripping and beautiful portrait of world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) and his relationship with wife Jane (Felicity Jones). The movie chronicles the pair’s relationship from its beginning and into the present day, charting the toll that Hawking’s amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease) takes on their marriage.

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