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Hector A. Gonzalez

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Puerto Rican chemical engineering student with a great passion for cinema and award shows. Deserted Island Movie Collection: Anything with Cate Blanchett. Best Movie Snack: Nachos.
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'Mainstream' Review - Social Media Commentary Message Failed

By Hector A. Gonzalez
07/05/21
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'Censor' Review - A Bloody Good 80s Throwback Horror Film

By Hector A. Gonzalez
05/05/21

Starting with a warning of strobing lights, violence, and gore, Prano Bailey-Bond’s directorial debut, Censor, takes a deep dive into the atmospheric 80s video nasty’s scene and the era of video censorship.

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'The Mitchells vs. the Machines' Review - Outstanding Timely Animation

By Hector A. Gonzalez
01/05/21

What do you get when you combine a love for cinema, a quirky family, robots who are taking over the world, and the producers behind The Lego Movie (2014)? You get the fascinating, charming, and hilarious Netflix animated film, The Mitchells vs. the Machines.

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'Romeo & Juliet' Review - Great Performances in National Theatre Movie

By Hector A. Gonzalez
28/04/21

London’s National Theatre delivers an original film for television, a glossed and stylised theatrical adaptation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece, Romeo & Juliet.

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'Monday' Review - Exotic Location Can't Save Clichéd Boring Story

By Hector A. Gonzalez
20/04/21

Oh, wouldn’t it be nice to spend the summer in Greece? First, it was Meryl Streep and company singing and dancing ABBA songs on the Greek islands in the Mamma Mia! films, and now we have Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough partying and travelling the country in Monday.

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'In the Earth' Review - Pandemic-Era Psychedelic Horror Misses the Mark

By Hector A. Gonzalez
19/04/21

Director Ben Wheatley delivers us a new pandemic-inspired horror film with In the Earth.

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'The Feast' SXSW Review - A Stunning and Brutal Last Supper

By Hector A. Gonzalez
06/04/21

Arthouse horror is a subgenre that is difficult to master. It serves tough topics through rawness and bloody spheres. Lee Haven Jones’ debut feature, The Feast, is a decent entry into the sub-genre that mixes oddness with the vicious slits of gore while tackling class and identity.

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'Shiva Baby' Review - A Relatable and Uncomfortable Indie Comedy

By Hector A. Gonzalez
29/03/21

Adapted from her own 2018 short film of the same name, Emma Seligman’s directorial debut, Shiva Baby, now hits our screens.

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'Alone Together' SXSW Review - Artists Gotta Make Art Even in Lockdown

By Hector A. Gonzalez
23/03/21

The pandemic has affected every one of us, including the pop phenomenon Charli XCX, whose documentary, Alone Together, was made in isolation.

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'How it Ends' SXSW Review - Cameo-Filled Comedy Misses the Mark

By Hector A. Gonzalez
20/03/21

How it Ends is an end-of-the-world quirky comedy starring Zoe Lister-Jones (who also co-writes and directs).

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'Violation' SXSW Review - Not for the Faint of Heart Horror

By Hector A. Gonzalez
20/03/21

Violation takes a different tone in covering a complex topic, getting all the “subgenre regulations” out of the way, both for better and worse.

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'Ninjababy' SXSW Review - An Imaginative Take on a Tender Subject

By Hector A. Gonzalez
19/03/21

There are many films that deal with unwanted pregnancies and the different ways of handling them, but none as inventive as Ninjababy.

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'The Father' Review - An Emotional Story with Masterful Performances

By Hector A. Gonzalez
19/03/21

Since its premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, audiences have heard great to amazing things about The Father and Anthony Hopkins’ performance in the film.

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'The Sparks Brothers' SXSW Review - An Enriching Music Documentary

By Hector A. Gonzalez
18/03/21

Baby Driver (2017) director Edgar Wright makes his documentary debut with The Sparks Brothers, focusing on the American pop-rock band, Sparks.

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'Apples' Review - A Quirky Piece of Pandemic-Era Cinema

By Hector A. Gonzalez
12/03/21

After working as an assistant director for Yorgos Lanthimos and Richard Linklater, Christos Nikou gives us his directorial debut film, Apples.

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'The Human Voice' Review - A (Short) Masterpiece from Pedro Almodóvar

By Hector A. Gonzalez
09/03/21

One of the most famous and alluring exports of modern Spanish cinema, Pedro Almodóvar, is back with a new short film, The Human Voice.

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'Quo vadis, Aida?' Review - A Devastating, Powerful War Story

By Hector A. Gonzalez
07/03/21

Quo vadis, Aida? is based on a harrowing true story about the atrocities of war in mid-90s Bosnia.

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