Cameron Meier

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La Gloria, 2025, 3 ¾ starsTopical drama eschews politics for truthExclusive to MeierMovies, May 5, 2025Ever been to the United States-Mexico border? I have. I went there in 2013, traveling from San Antonio to Eagle Pass, Texas. After parking my car on the American side, I crossed the international bridge on foot, with trepidation. I was greeted on Mexican soil by a single sentinel, holding aloft an assault rifle. He didn’t ask for I.D. He didn’t make eye contact. He stayed silent. I continued.

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Proclamation casts further doubt on his mental healthExclusive to MeierMovies, May 4, 2025President Donald Trump announced today that films made outside the United States constitute a national-security threat. “The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,“ Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated.

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Time Travel Is Dangerous, 2025, 2 starsMockumentary is a charming, funny, undisciplined messExclusive to MeierMovies, April 30, 2025British writer-director Chris Reading is right: Time travel IS dangerous. Even travelling into the future at the rate of one second per second, like we’re doing now, can be perilous. Just ask your arthritis. But that is, of course, not the type of journey Reading’s film depicts.

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St. Pete event is famous for its filmmaker-friendly vibeExclusive to MeierMovies, April 28, 2025The Sunscreen Film Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary April 24-27 in St. Petersburg, Florida, with lavish parties, great weather, 16 workshops/panels and 220 films (features and shorts). Held at the downtown AMC Sundial 12 Cinema, the festival enjoys a filmmaker-friendly reputation, buoyed by its great location and glorious Florida spring temperatures.

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Mr. K, 2025, 2 starsExclusive to MeierMovies, April 21, 2025In The Trial, Franz Kafka’s Mr. K, an unassuming bank clerk, is accused by unspecified people of an unnamed crime. After endless bureaucratic nonsense and fantastical entanglements, Mr. K is stabbed and strangled in a quarry, “like a dog.”The predicament “Mr. K” faces in writer-director Tallulah H. Schwab’s new surreal mystery-fantasy-dramedy is rosier than that of his Kafkaesque namesake, but just a skosh.