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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 2d

The remake of pulpy '90s thriller #TheHandThatRockstheCradle hits Hulu with all the energy of a Tupperware full of moldy leftovers, says critic Christopher Lloyd. #moviereview #filmsky 📽️

The remake of the pulpy '90s thriller hits Hulu with all the energy of a Tupperware full of moldy leftovers. Did anyone involved really think, "THIS is what I need to be doing right now?"

Guillermo del Toro's take on the monster/creator fable is great-looking Gothic entertainment. But it's curiously hard to manufacture empathy for these creatures.

Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 2d

Guillermo del Toro's take on the monster/creator fable is great-looking Gothic entertainment. But it's curiously hard to manufacture empathy for these creatures, says critic Christopher Lloyd in his #moviereview of #Frankenstein. #filmsky 📽️

Frankenstein

The Obsessive Viewer Podcast – Ep 491 – HIFF2025: Filmmaker Interviews – A Simple Machine (2025) & Disposable Humanity (2025)

Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 3d

In this special ep of The Obsessive Viewer, Matt Hurt wraps up #HIFF34 with some overall thoughts on the festival and the audio version of a pair of filmmaker interviews for the films A Simple Machine and Disposable Humanity. #filmsky 📽️

In this special episode, I share my experience at this year’s Heartland Film Festival (HIFF34) before playing two filmmaker interviews I conducted. In the first interview, I chat with director/edit…

HIFF34: A Simple Machine (2025) Filmmaker Interview - Mark Hoffman & Alyssa Roehrenbeck

Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 4d

In this interview from #HIFF34, Matt Hurt chats with A Simple Machine director Mark Hoffman and producer Alyssa Roehrenbeck about the film and their experience bringing it to Heartland Film Festival. #filmsky 📽️

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Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 5d

This week on FOX59's "Indy Now," critic Christopher Lloyd offers his #moviereviews of new releases including "After the Hunt," "Good Fortune," "Black Phone 2" and "Truth & Treason."

The AV Room: Indy Now -- October 17

This week on Indy Now, critic Christopher Lloyd reviews new releases including "After the Hunt," "Good Fortune," "Black Phone 2" and "Truth & Treason."

HIFF34: Disposable Humanity (2025) Filmmaker Interview - Cameron S. Mitchell & David T. Mitchell

Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 6d

In this video interview, Matt Hurt chats with Cameron S. Mitchell and David T. Mitchell about their documentary Disposable Humanity at #HIFF34 #filmsky 📽️

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Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 8d

On The Obsessive Viewer Podcast, Matt Hurt interviews filmmaker Andie Redwine and fellow #IFJA member Richard Propes about their documentary The Tenderness Tour at #HIFF34 and Richard's mission to erase medical debt in Indiana.

The Obsessive Viewer Podcast – Ep 490 – HIFF2025: Filmmaker Interview – The Tenderness Tour (2025) Director Andie Redwine & Star Richard Propes

In this special episode, I’m joined in two interviews by director Andie Redwine and star Richard Propes to discuss their documentary The Tenderness Tour, which premiered at this year’s Heartland Fi…

Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield are academics caught in a swirl of entitlement, accusations and trauma in this heady drama that offers no answers, only questions.

Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 9d

Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield are academics caught in a swirl of entitlement, accusations and trauma in #AftertheHunt, a heady drama that offers no answers, only questions.

#moviereview by Christopher Lloyd #filmsky 📽️

After the Hunt

The Obsessive Viewer Podcast – Ep 489 – The Smashing Machine (2025) & The Strangers: Chapter 2 (2025) – Guest: Sam Watermeier

Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 14d

In this week's ep of The Obsessive Viewer, Matt Hurt and guest Sam Watermeier review The Smashing Machine and The Strangers: Chapter 2. They also discuss movie news, Heartland Film Festival, and more. #filmsky 📽️

This week, Sam Watermeier joins me to review the new Benny Safdie movie, The Smashing Machine in a feature review and then, in this week’s secondary review, we talk about Renny Harlin’s, The Strang…

Heartland 2025: La Gloria

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Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 15d

At Midwest Film Journal, IFJA member Nick Rogers continues his preview of the 34th Heartland International Film Festival with a review of "La Gloria," which scales down the topic of migration from a macro monolith to an affecting interpersonal story. #filmsky 📽️

A film that shrewdly and skillfully scales its story about migration away from the macro monoliths of political pandering and toward a striking tale of two people navigating an isolated situation as…

Heartland 2025: Hello Out There!

Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 15d

At Midwest Film Journal, IFJA member Nick Rogers previews the 34th Heartland International Film Festival with a review of "Hello Out There!," a dramedy about the search for alien life that proves best when addressing human concerns. #filmsky 📽️

Driven by strong dramatic turns from Chloe Bennet and Phil Dunster, “Hello Out There!” is a story about the search for proof of alien life that is most effective when dealing with human concerns.

Kathryn Bigelow brings her inimitably intense sense of visual urgency to this nuclear-missile drama. But Noah Oppenheim’s script and unusually stiff work from a cast of reliable actors.

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Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 17d

At Midwest Film Journal, #IFJA member Nick Rogers says an ill-structured script and unusually wooden performances from good actors sink "A House of Dynamite," the latest sociopolitical thriller from Kathryn Bigelow. #filmsky 📽️

A House of Dynamite

'Predator: Badlands' Turns the Monster Into the Hero, and 8 Other Savagely Exciting Things We Learned On Set

Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 18d

Last year, #IFJA member Nate Richard traveled to New Zealand to visit the set of the upcoming film “Predator: Badlands,” where he talked with director Dan Trachtenberg and the creative team behind the ambitious new installment. #filmsky 📽️

Dan Trachtenberg's ambitious follow-up to 'Prey' has synths, kaiju, swords, and much more.

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Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 21d

At Midwest Film Journal, IFJA member Nick Rogers says "The Lost Bus" (streaming Friday on Apple TV+) is a solid-enough tale of real-life rescue elevate by elite visual effects. #filmsky 📽️

The Lost Bus

Outstanding visual effects elevate the latest film from director Paul Greengrass, which dramatizes the real-life rescue of schoolchildren amid the rampaging 2018 Camp Fire in California.

The Obsessive Viewer Podcast – Ep 488 – One Battle After Another (2025) & V/H/S/Halloween (2025) – Guest: Brent Leuthold

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Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 22d

In this week's ep of The Obsessive Viewer, Matt Hurt and guest Brent Leuthold review One Battle After Another and V/H/S Halloween. They also discuss movie news and the upcoming Heartland Film Festival. #filmsky 📽️

This week, Brent Leuthold joins me to review the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie, One Battle After Another in a feature review and then, in this week’s secondary review, we talk about the new Shudde…

Eric Pascarelli's ironic send-up of extraterrestrial invaders movies and Hoosier foibles makes for an amusing clash of genres.

Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 22d

Hoosier filmmaker Eric Pascarelli is back with another feature, "Alien in the Heartland," debuting Friday. Christopher Lloyd calls it an ironic send-up of space invaders movies and Hoosier foibles that makes for an amusing clash of genres.

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Alien in the Heartland

Stripped for Parts director Rick Goldsmith

Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 23d

Rick Goldsmith, the twice-Oscar nominated documentarian, talks about his new film on the state of American journalism, #StrippedforParts, with Film Yap's Christopher Lloyd. #filmsky 📽️

The storied documentary filmmaker, twice nominated for an Oscar, talks with Film Yap about his latest exploration of the challenges facing American journalism.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 24d

Critic Christopher Lloyd says #StrippedforParts is a compelling look at the corporate raiding of newspapers across the U.S. shines a light on the importance of journalism, and how greed has shaped its diminishment.

#moviereview #filmsky 📽️

This compelling look at the corporate raiding of newspapers across the U.S. shines a light on the importance of journalism, and how greed has shaped its diminishment. On PBS Oct. 1.

Without resorting to empty shocks or cheap tactics, “Good Boy” gets under the collar for a deep, satisfying dog-based horror scratch.

Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 25d

At Midwest Film Journal, IFJA member Nick Rogers says "Good Boy" (in theatres Friday) gets under the collar for a deep, satisfying scratch of dog-based horror without empty shocks or cheap tactics. #filmsky 📽️

Good Boy (2025)

Reeling Backward: Point Blank (1967)

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Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 25d

Christopher Lloyd says #PointBlank, John Boorman's first American film, is a tight crime thriller, spare to the bone in storytelling but highly stylized in its aesthetics, following Lee Marvin's crook out for revenge. #filmsky 📽️

John Boorman's first American film was this tight crime thriller, spare to the bone in storytelling but highly stylized in the way it was shot, following a crook out for revenge.

The AV Room: Indy Now -- September 26

Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 27d

This week on FOX59, Christopher Lloyd checks out the new film releases: "One Battle After Another," "The Strangers: Chapter 2," "Eleanor the Great," "Dead of Winter" and "Gabby's Dollhouse."

#moviereview #filmsky 📽️

This week on FOX59, Christopher Lloyd checks out the new film releases: "One Battle After Another," "The Strangers: Chapter 2," "Eleanor the Great," "Dead of Winter" and "Gabby's Dollhouse."

Class of 1985: Invasion U.S.A.

Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 28d

At Midwest Film Journal, IFJA member Nick Rogers looks back at the 1985 film "Invasion U.S.A." as part of his "Class of ... " series celebrating 20th, 30th and 40th film anniversaries. #filmsky 📽️

“Class of … ” — Nick Rogers’ monthly feature in which he looks back at a film celebrating a 20th, 30th or 40th anniversary — continues with a reflection on 1985’s “Invasion U.S.A.”…

Emma Thompson is probably the last actress you'd expect to see in a tense action/thriller, as a widow facing off with a diabolical couple. Of course, she nails it.

Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · 29d

Emma Thompson is probably the last actress you'd expect to see in #DeadofWinter, a tense action/thriller, as a widow facing off with a diabolical couple. Of course, she nails it. #moviereview by Christopher Lloyd. #filmsky 📽️

Dead of Winter

June Squibb continues her run of solid leading roles for the silver set, playing a brassy gal who moves back to New York City and makes unexpected connections in Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut

Indiana Film Journalists Association @ifja.bsky.social · Sep 24

June Squibb continues her run of solid leading roles for the silver set, playing a brassy gal who moves back to New York City and makes unexpected connections in Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut. #moviereview by Christopher Lloyd. #filmsky 📽️

Eleanor the Great