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By St. Marla's Journal contributor Emily-Ann Elizabeth Trautman. Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time Part 2, is a light and fun watch, despite the...

Telling the story of The Man, a mysterious drifter who assumes the identity of David Martin, a man he killed a few days prior, The Quarry gives a lot of thou...

The Wonderland is an animated feature that puts the “con” in confusion. Almost an entire waste of 115 minutes, this film is saved only by its soundtrack and ...

By St. Marla's Journal contributor Emily-Ann Elizabeth Trautman. Endings, Beginnings is a heartwarming story, following a woman experiencing heartbreak and o...

Directed by anime legend Rintaro, Metropolis takes inspiration from Fritz Lang’s 1927 film of the same name and the 1949 manga written by Osamu Tezuka. Telli...

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time Part I – Midnight Madness is the first installation of the three part Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of Al...

By St. Marla's Journal contributor Emily-Ann Elizabeth Trautman Sea Fever isn’t an abysmal film. Unfortunately, that is the highest praise it can receive fro...

Saint Frances is equal parts a sweet, sentimental film and a harsh reality check. The premise of 34-year-old Bridget, a woman recovering from an abortion and...

B movies are often viewed as being campy, over the top, exploitative in content -- often, all of the above. Indeed, these low-budget films that have a better...

Taking place in 1972, Tuscaloosa tells a story intertwining tensions about the Vietnam war, race, and toxic relationships. The vessel that ties these themes ...

Escape from Pretoria tells the real-life story of Tim Jenkin (Daniel Radcliffe) and Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber), two white South African political prisoners w...

By St. Marla's Journal contributor Emily-Ann Elizabeth Trautman Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is a twist on the age old...

Coming from visionary director Masaaki Yuasa, Ride Your Wave is the latest film in an impressive filmography. Yuasa’s other recent films — the colorful and sw...

Coming from Alejandro Jodorowsky, Santa Sangre stands as an inspiring, disturbing and frustratingly somewhat inaccessible mark on his resume. Santa Sangre te...

White Snake is an adaptation of the Chinese fable Legend of the White Snake. The film follows a snake-demon named Blanca who loses her memory and goes on a q...

Frozen II is the sequel nobody asked for. Nobody. The first film became a classic and one of Disney’s staples in animation. For all the acclaim it was gettin...

Weathering with You adds to Makoto Shinkai’s impressive resume. Key to its appeal is animation so visually striking that it’s sometimes difficult to tell whe...

JoJo Rabbit is a film with a formula nobody would expect to work. A wannabe 10-year-old Nazi whose imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler finds out his mother is h...

5 Centimeters per Second isn’t a story about moving on. Its ambiguous ending leaves little hope for even the most optimistic viewer. What this 63-minute film...