Abby Olcese
Writer and Editor at Freelance
Writer. Critic. Words at @thefastpitch, @PasteMagazine, @ebertvoices, @thinkchristian, @sojourners, more. Films for all Seasons out NOW from @ivpress! 📽🐱🍅
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5 days ago |
thepitchkc.com | Abby Olcese
Andrew Ahn's The Wedding Banquet is about two gay couples (one pair female, the other male) who enter into a messy straight-presenting marriage arrangement to please the strict, traditional grandparents of one of their group. In most versions of this story - and indeed the 1993 Ang Lee movie of the same name on which Ahn's film is based - keeping the charade going would make up most of the movie, with everything falling apart at the end of the second act, followed by hard-won reconciliation.
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2 weeks ago |
thepitchkc.com | Abby Olcese
For the first third of Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza's Warfare, almost nothing happens. It's the most tension I've ever felt watching a movie in a theater. Let me explain: Warfare is an immersive, memory-based depiction of a group of Navy SEALS (including Mendoza, played here by Reservation Dogs' D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai) on a 2006 Iraq war mission that got really violent. Two Iraqi scouts were killed, and two of their company were severely wounded.
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3 weeks ago |
thepitchkc.com | Abby Olcese
One of the most frequent comments you hear about Columbia's True/False Film Festival is that it's different from any other. It's the kind of statement that would be easy to brush off if you weren't hearing it from so many different groups of people: repeat attendees, new converts, veterans of bigger festivals like Sundance, Toronto, or SXSW, and, perhaps most notably, filmmakers.
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3 weeks ago |
thepitchkc.com | Abby Olcese
The Panic Fest horror/genre film festival is currently running in KC for its 2025 season at Screenland Armour. These film reviews are from indie and studio horror/comedy/sci-fi features premiering right now in the Northland, or hitting major theaters/VOD soon. Catch up with all our coverage here and there's still time to get tickets for individual screenings at the Panic Fest 2025 website.
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3 weeks ago |
thepitchkc.com | Abby Olcese
The Panic Fest horror/genre film festival is currently running in KC for its 2025 season at Screenland Armour. These film reviews are from indie and studio horror/comedy/sci-fi features premiering right now in the Northland, or hitting major theaters/VOD soon. Catch up with all our coverage here and there's still time to get tickets for individual screenings at the Panic Fest 2025 website.
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I've been thinking a lot about David Lynch and what he meant to me for obvious reasons over the last week, so I wrote about him for @Sojourners.
"He showed us repeatedly that the world could be full of darkness as well as wonder. Sometimes that darkness is terrifying, the kind that stuns us and changes us forever. Sometimes it’s the kind we see our friends and neighbors struggle with every day." https://t.co/l2rRWcWpCF
