Kyle Gallner

Cotton Fever is a difficult film to sit with, but one that undeniably comes from a place of lived truth and compassion: Tribeca Film Festival Review

Addiction dramas are rarely designed to be “enjoyable,” and Cotton Fever understands that from its opening moments. Daniel Blake Schwartz’s debut feature is an emotionally heavy, deeply intimate portrait of people trapped in cycles of dependency, survival, and recovery, refusing to romanticise the realities of addiction or soften the damage it leaves behind. The result is…

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Film Review: Carolina Caroline is a romantic road movie, a con comedy and a taut heist drama all in one

Looking at the premise of Carolina Caroline on the surface, it’s all too easy to compare it to something like Bonnie & Clyde.  Sure, Adam Carter Rehmeier‘s focuses on a loved-up couple and their cross country crime spree, but Tom Dean‘s script is far deeper than that set-up.  For starters, the initial “criminal” of the two, Kyle Gallner‘s Oliver, justifies his…

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Carolina Caroline is a charming crime road movie that unapologetically steals your heart: Toronto International Film Festival Review

Looking at the premise of Carolina Caroline on the surface, it’s all too easy to compare it to something like Bonnie & Clyde.  Sure, Adam Carter Rehmeier‘s focuses on a loved-up couple and their cross country crime spree, but Tom Dean‘s script is far deeper than that set-up.  For starters, the initial “criminal” of the…

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Film Review: Smile 2; A sequel that doesn’t suck? That’s something to smile about.

As we learned from “the rules of a horror sequel” in one of the few horror sequels that actually held its weight against the original – 1997’s Scream 2 – things are always bigger and bloodier in a Part 2; “Carnage candy,” as it was so deliciously described.  And, indeed, Parker Finn has a sweet…

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