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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 1h

THE SURRENDER is abou bringing the dead patriarch of a family back. What ould go wrong?
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THE SURRENDER (2025)

The patriarch of a family dies, his wife who is very much in to new age cures, brings in a shaman to restore him to life. His daughter doe...

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 12h

a lot of her fans I spoke to at NYFF were disappointed- mostly by the second half

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 12h

shitball piece trash film
review soon

Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 15h

Thoughts on my final film from TheNYFF
NO OTHER CHOICE - which is certain to cause a great amount of discussion
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No Other Choice (2025) NYFF 2025

Park Chan Wook's NO OTHER CHOICE is the absolute best sort of film, one that provokes a wide variety of reactions and get conversations star...

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 15h

Just got word from a friend who went to see the AMC secret screening of THE MASTERMIND. The audience was not happy lots of walkouts and talking to the screen

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 15h

I never mentioned that I saw THE ALABAMA SOLUTION on
HBO this weekend. It's a great film and a must see.
A review when I can must the time

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 1d

thoughts on CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD
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Clown in a Corn Field (2025)

Clown In The Cornfield is a great film. This is an old school horror comedy (think KILLER CLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE) where there are genui...

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 1d

QUEEN OF MANHATTAN is a bio of porn star and sex advocate Vanessa Del Rio. It hits VOD tomorrow. If you are adventurous give it a go
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Queen of Manhattan (2023) (aka The Latin From Manhattan) in theaters Friday, on demand October 14

This is the story of adult film star Vanessa Del Rio, as told by Del Rio covering her days making some of the over two hundred porn films th...

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 1d

I spent most of the time afternoon writing or finishing 11 pieces
I am beat

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 1d

And none of you told me John Carpenter was playing New York

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 1d

I love it when I find I already saw a film and don't have to review it

Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 1d

Passing on a film set when I was growing up and it looks all wrong and like dress up

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 1d

MONSTER MEDICINE is a good little horror short about a world where monsters & humans co-exist. A woman who his turning into a monster end up in an emergancy room
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Monster Medicine (2025)

One night in s world were monsters eist with humans, a woman who is transitioning into a monster is brought into an emergancy room. Good lit...

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 1d

King Kong vs Godzilla lobby card

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Boo-ly, Li'l Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · Oct 14

Happy Columbo Day!

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 1d

A foound footage horror film I really like

Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 2d

Jafar Panahi and Marty Scorsese talk movies
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Jafar Panahi and Martin Scorsese on It Was Just an Accident and Rebellious Filmmaking

YouTube video by Film at Lincoln Center

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 2d

Thoughts on the 1980's throwback horror film DEAD MAIL www.unseenfilms.net/2025/10/brie...

Brief thoughts on Dead Mail (2024)

1980's set throwback to the 1980's drive-in concerns a dead letter office at the post office which gets a desperate note saying that someo...

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 2d

I finished NYFF with Park Chan Wook's NO OTHER CHOICE is good.- not my favorite-but good

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 2d

COVER-UP at NYFF is a portrait of journalist Seymour Hersh
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COVER-UP (2025) NYFF 2025

COVER-UP is a perfectly adequate look at journalist Seymour Hersh. The film is a look at the man looking back at his life. Actually, th...

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 2d

ECCE MOLE at the NYFF is glorious. it is a portrait oif two places in Turin. Seeit Big
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ecce mole (2025) NYFF 2025

Heinz Emigholz’s ECCE MOLE is glorious. I look at two location in Turin designed by Alessandro Antonelli. It’s a film of spaces that makes ...

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 3d

DANGEROUS ANIMALS the story of a psycho who runs a shark tour charter din't work for me.
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Dangerous Animals (2025)

The operator of a shark cage adventure is in reality a psycho who likes to feed his charges to the sharks. This is a good looking, very del...

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joebendel.bsky.social @joebendel.bsky.social · 11d

There are times when you might root for the feral canines, but COYOTES is nonetheless amusingly sly, but refreshingly unpretentious. Review up here: www.jbspins.com/2025/10/coli...

Colin Minihan’s Coyotes

Usually, coyotes are reluctant to attack people, but it can happen. In this case, maybe they heard some Acme Corp. executives live in the to...

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joebendel.bsky.social @joebendel.bsky.social · 8d

Chronicling Noam Tibon's personal rescue operation during the 10/7 terrorist attacks, the documentary THE ROAD BETWEEN US is a deeply personal story of family and community, as well as a gripping real-life thriller. @epochtimes.bsky.social review up here: www.theepochtimes.com/bright/the-r...

‘The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue’

A retired Israeli general saves his son’s family during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7.

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joebendel.bsky.social @joebendel.bsky.social · 6d

RED ALERT chronicles the tremendous bravery of ordinary Israelis & the appalling savagery of Hamas that unfolded during the 10/7 terrorist attacks. Yet, he does so in an inclusive manner, reminding the world Arab Israelis also suffered that fateful day. Review: www.theepochtimes.com/bright/red-a...

‘Red Alert’: Real Terrorism

A four-part TV series that dramatizes the 10/7 attack on a Muslim and Jewish family.

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