Music Break: Halloween Special 🎃 Six Favorite Horror Film Scores

Well, it's Halloween's Eve and I'm actually not really into Halloween though I did meet my hubby for the first time at a Halloween party back in high school (I was wearing a black cape and he had a skeleton costume on, ha!) That's pretty much the only time I actually celebrated this popular 'holiday' …

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American Fiction, Abroad + Show Her the Money (documentary) won the 2023 Twin Cities Film Fest awards!

The Twin Cities Film Fest announced its 2023 award winners Saturday evening, recognizing films and artists across 10 top categories. The annual visual arts celebration showcased more than 140 features, shorts, and industry events over the past two weeks. This year also featured an array of special programs, championing diversity in filmmaking and raising awareness …

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Twin Cities Film Fest (TCFF) announced 2023 Award Finalists – Downtown Owl, American Fiction, The Holdovers, The First Class + Terrence Howard lead this year’s class of honorees

St. Louis Park, MN (October 27, 2023) – The Twin Cities Film Fest unveiled more than 15 finalists for its top awards Thursday, many of which are still set to stream during the event’s final weekend. Among the contenders for the 2023 Best Feature Film Award are the new Alexander Payne comedy The Holdovers, the …

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TCFF 2023 Documentary Review: A BINDING TRUTH (2023)

A Binding Truth is a story about two people who share the same last name – one black, one white – both from Charlotte, North Carolina in Mecklenburg County. When Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and Hugh “De” Kirkpatrick encountered each other as high school classmates in 1965, neither thought much of anything about their shared name, …

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TCFF 2023 Indie Film Review: ABROAD (2023)

This is one of the few films playing at the festival that was shot in Minnesota, specifically in the scenic northern part of the state. What’s especially notable about Abroad is the international cast and crew. The writer/director and the co-writer are of Italian descent, while the two leads are Koreans, playing a South Korean …

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TCFF 2023 Triple Horror Reviews: V/H/S/85 & Ghosts of the Void & Suitable Flesh

It's that time of year again – Twin Cities Film Fest is in full swing, and we're also drawing closer to Halloween, meaning I have a prime opportunity to watch independent horror movies. There were only three horror movies in the lineup this year, all screening this past weekend, so I had a very entertaining …

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TCFF 2023 Documentary Reviews: ‘Still Working 9 to 5’ and ‘Greener Pastures’

In the interest of time, I'm going to be posting more than one review at a time during the film fest. Some might be shorter than others, depending on how much time I have on a given day. Still Working 9 To 5 Let me preface this review with the fact that I had not …

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