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Telluride Film Festival 2024: Blink, Apocalypse in the Tropics, Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid! | Festivals & Awards

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The Telluride Film Festival historically incorporates a fair number of documentary features and shorts alongside the main attraction, narrative features. This year, the documentary programming was thoughtfully political, and the selections thematically aligned well with the narrative features. This permitted my personal programming to have its own common thread and for synchronicities to shine. The … Read more

Blink Twice Review: A Puzzling Failure

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This summer belongs to Channing Tatum. He starred in the excellent rom-com Fly Me to the Moon and had a scene-stealing role in another summer blockbuster. This time, he’s under the direction of his fiancée, Zoë Kravitz, in her directorial debut. Blink Twice is a new thriller movie originally titled Pussy Island. Naturally, the MPA … Read more

Blink Twice movie review & film summary (2024)

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Joined by his cabal of miscreants—Cody (Simon Rex), Vic (Christian Slater), and Tom (Haley Joel Osment), and their invitees, Sarah (Adria Arjona), Heather (Trew Mullen), and Camilla (Liz Caribel)—Slater boards a private jet for the supposed getaway of their dreams. With their cell phones collected by Slater’s nervous and neurotic personal assistant and sister (Geena Davis), … Read more

Blink Twice Review

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Zoe Kravitz makes her directorial debut and really impresses in this contrived mystery that still manages to thrill. PLOT: When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. As strange things start to happen, … Read more

Zoë Kravitz on Why Pussy Island Title Changed to Blink Twice

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Zoë Kravitz will make her directorial debut later this summer with Blink Twice. During the film’s development, the original title was Pussy Island. Despite wanting to keep Pussy Island, Kravitz reluctantly changed the name to Blink Twice after facing backlash over the original title. “It was made very clear to me that ‘pussy’ is a … Read more