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A Delicate Touch: Adam Rifkin for LAST TRAIN TO FORTUNE
Is the book mightier than the gun? Writer/director Adam Rifkin has built a career on fearless genre-blending tales laced with fun and sharp wit. If you’ve seen Gore Verbinski’s Mousehunt (1997) and Joe Dante’s Small Soldiers (1998), you’ll certainly have had a good time with those movies. For his latest venture, Last Train to Fortune, the journey is deeply personal. Decades in the making, the heartfelt western began as a screenplay written by his mother in the 1980s, with Lin
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Sep 149 min read
Microbudget Miracle: Joe Burke for BURT
Finding the truth in filmmaking... Few films this year have generated the kind of quiet anticipation surrounding Burt (2026), the latest feature from filmmaker Joe Burke. Blending intimate character work with a striking visual style, the film explores memory, identity, and the fragile ways people hold onto the past. Since its premiere, Burt has sparked conversations for its emotional honesty, understated performances, and Burke’s confident direction — further cementing him as
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Jun 169 min read
Familiar Demons: Natasha Kermani for THE DREADFUL
One dark knight… Following last year’s adaptation of Joe Hill’s novel Abraham’s Boys , Natasha Kermani has continued to carve out a space for delving into psychological period pieces. With her latest film, The Dreadful , she continues to explore fear not as spectacle alone, but as something deeply embedded in identity, power, and perspective. Kermani’s work resists easy categorization — melding arthouse sensibilities with visceral suspense — and invites audiences to sit with
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Feb 186 min read
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