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2025 Chattanooga Film Festival Review Roundup: Part 2
The first half of 615 Film’s 2025 excursion to the Chattanooga Film Festival saw a solid if self-indulgent music documentary, a unique metaphysical neo-noir with haunting parallels to our post-pandemic world, and a capital W wild shark horror-comedy that must...
‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ Breeds Familiar, Yet Thrilling Roars (Review)
The seventh entry in the prehistoric franchise proves to be the best film since the original trilogy. As summer keeps rolling on, so comes the season’s most surprising entry: Jurassic World Rebirth. Not because it is coming just three years after the terrible,...
2025 Chattanooga Film Festival Review Roundup: Part 1
615 Film finally covered the Chattanooga Film Festival this past month, and over the course of the weekend it was in-person, this critic could see why this festival in particular is a dream destination for independent filmmakers on the rise; from its co-founders Chris...
Brad Pitt Leads a Wondrous Racing Spectacle in ‘F1® THE MOVIE’ (Review)
A grizzled racer-for-hire returns to Formula One decades after a life-changing accident in this new blockbuster from Joseph Kosinski. When a racing movie makes a pit stop on multiplex screens, the results always catch the eye of critics or general audiences...
‘How to Train Your Dragon’ is a Handsome, Authentic Live-Action Remake (Review)
Universal’s first crack at remaking memorable DreamWorks properties flies as high as one carbon copy could. It’s honestly quite surprising that it has taken this long for Universal Pictures and/or DreamWorks Animation to put out a live action remake from the...
Ana de Armas takes Keanu’s Baton in Stylish, Solid ‘Ballerina’ (Review)
Eve Macarro joins The Continental life of crime with vengeance on the mind in this first spinoff within the John Wick universe. The John Wick film franchise has been one of the more consistent action series in all of Hollywood cinema as of this writing,...
‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ is Thrilling, Talky, and Disappointing (Review)
The eighth and final (?) entry in the franchise makes for the lowest quality film since the franchise’s second entry. The fact that a well-known action film franchise hasn’t spurned one spinoff while producing eight films over nearly threedecades with its main...
‘Friendship’ is Uncomfortably Hilarious (Review)
Tim Robinson & Paul Rudd deliver plenty of laugh-out-loud moments in this relatable film right up A24’s alley. It was only a matter of time before actor/comedian Tim Robinson was going to get his big break on film after the huge success of his Netflix...
‘The Ugly Stepsister’ is a Twisted & Terrifying Take on Cinderella (Review)
The Cinderella story returns to its macabre, gruesome roots in this demented subversion from Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt. It’s no secret that the Disney variations of classic fairy tales are full of timeless magic and wondrous spectacle, but the...