A found footage / alien fusion, The Encounter wasn’t something we were immediately keen on reviewing and it sat in our to-do pile waiting to hatch from its pod, as it were. The found footage genre is polarizing. The format can frequently handcuff a filmmaker, who’s left needing light sources to compensate for the conceit of characters documentingContinue reading “The Encounter”
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Champs
“If you forgive, you have peace.” This sentiment seems incongruous coming out of Evander Holyfield’s mouth about Mike Tyson, the man who nearly bit his ear off. But forgive he did. And Champs is an at times unforgiving boxing doc, with cover art that shows the sport’s precarious position on the sporting landscape; it seems likeContinue reading “Champs”
