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Jul 20 2023July 20, 2023

Oppenheimer Review: Cillian Murphy Dazzles in Nolan’s Epic Biopic

By Victor Stiff / July 20, 2023 July 20, 2023 / Reviews / Alden Ehrenreich, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Film, Florence Pugh, Hoyte Van Hoytema, Kenneth Branagh, Ludwig Göransson, Movie, Oppenheimer, Review, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Conti / 4 minutes of reading

Oppenheimer stands as the most peculiar summer blockbuster to hit theatres in years. It’s a three-hour ensemble drama about burden: the burden of genius, expectations, and the guilt of creating a weapon capable of annihilating humanity. Obviously, this isn’t the type of summer movie that you’ll see cross-promoted on a Happy Meal. But if there’s one filmmaker …

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Jun 28 2023June 28, 2023

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Interview: Sean Gunn

By Victor Stiff / June 28, 2023 June 28, 2023 / Interviews, Videos / Aliens, Film, Guardians of the Galaxy, Interview, Kraglin, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Movie, MCU, Movie, Rocket, Rocket Raccoon, Sci-fi, Sean Gunn, Space, Space movies, The Guardians of the Galaxy, The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, UFO Movies / 2 minutes of reading

Last month I sat down for a face-to-face interview with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 star Sean Gunn. In addition to playing former Ravager and current Guardian Kraglin, Gunn also performs the motion capture for the entirely digital Rocket character (voiced by Bradley Cooper). I had a blast watching Guardians of the Galaxy …

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Feb 20 2023February 21, 2023

Contact: The CE-5 Experience Review: Preaching to the Choir

By Victor Stiff / February 20, 2023 February 21, 2023 / Reviews / Alien Movie, CE-5, Contact: The CE-5 Experience, Disclosure, Film, Movie, Serena Dc, Steven Greer, UAP, UAP Documentary, UFO, UFO Documentary, UFO Movie Club / 5 minutes of reading

Contact: The CE-5 Experience In the spring of 2020, two major events altered the course of civilization. The first was a global pandemic. And the second was the release of a UFO documentary called Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind. The first statement is a fact, and the second is wishful thinking. But this wishful thinking reflects the …

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Jan 23 2023January 23, 2023

Best Films of 2022: A Video Tribute

By Victor Stiff / January 23, 2023 January 23, 2023 / Videos / After Yang, Aftersun, Babylon, Barbarian, Best of 2022, Best of year, Bones and All, Deadstream, Decision to Leave, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Film, Films, Last Film Show, Living, Movie, Movie of the year, Movies, Nope, Pearl, Prey, RRR, Sydney, The Batman, The Fabelmans, The Woman King / 2 minutes of reading

CELEBRATING 2022’S BEST MOVIES This best films of 2022 video is a tribute to all the movies I loved last year. It’s as simple as that. I don’t care if a film earned $5 or $50 million. Arthouse, studio tentpole, animation, and found footage are all fair game. If a movie filled me with joy …

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May 21 2022September 1, 2022

Ariel Phenomenon Review: Why Can’t We Admit What We Don’t Know?

By Victor Stiff / May 21, 2022 September 1, 2022 / Reviews / Alien, Ariel Encounter, Ariel Phenomenon, Ariel School, Cynthia Hind, Documentary, Emily Trim, John Mack, Mass Sighting, Movie, Randall Nickerson, Review, Tim Leach, UAP, UFO Documentary, UFO LAnding, UFO Movie Club, Zimbabwe / 7 minutes of reading

I won’t beat around the bush. Ariel Phenomenon presents one of the most incredible real-life stories ever told. If you believe these events happened exactly as portrayed in the film, then Ariel Phenomenon offers a doorway to a new worldview. In that case, the film makes a powerful argument that our reality is teeming with …

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Feb 2 2022

Sundance 2022 Video: That Shelf’s Wrap-up Roundtable

By Victor Stiff / February 2, 2022 February 2, 2022 / Interviews, Videos / After Yang, Cha Cha Reel Smooth, Festival, Film, Fire of Love, Good Luck to you Leo Grande, Interview, jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, Movie, Nanny, Pat Mullen, Rachel Ho, Rachel West, Roundtable, Shane Slater, Sundance, Sundance 2022, Victor Stiff, Video, We Need to Talk about Cosby, with Jason Gorber / 1 minute of reading

After ten days and two dozen movies, Sundance 2022 is a wrap for me. On Sunday evening, That Shelf’s film critics joined up for a post-festival roundtable. Our 90-minute touches on what it’s like covering a virtual festival, Sundance’s knockout documentary line-up, as well as the films that blew us away (or broke our brains). …

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Feb 2 2022

Extraordinary: The Revelations: UFO Movie Club Video Review

By Victor Stiff / February 2, 2022 February 2, 2022 / Videos / Alien, Alien Abduction, Aliens, Billy Carson, David Jacobs, Doc, Documentary, Extraordinary, Extraordinary: The Revelations, Film, George Noory, Jimmy Church, Jon Sumple, Krista Raisa, L.A. Marzulli, Lyn Buchanan, Mary Rodwell, Melinda Leslie, Movie, Nick Pope, Richard Dolan, Timothy Alberino, UAP, UFO, UFO doc, UFO Documentary, UFO Movie Club, Viviane Chauvet / 2 minutes of reading

This episode of UFO Movie Club covers director Jon Sumple’s 2021 documentary Extraordinary: The Revelations. The Revelations, Sumple’s third entry in the Extraordinary series, puts humanity’s alleged interactions with ET into historical context. The film attempts to decipher the alien agenda by examining ET encounters through the lens of three paradigms (biblical, ascension and colonization). …

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Jan 28 2022January 28, 2022

Sundance 2022: When You Finish Saving the World Review

By Victor Stiff / January 28, 2022 January 28, 2022 / Reviews / Alisha Boe, Benjamin Loeb, Festival, Film, Finn Wolfhard, Jesse Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Movie, Review, Sundance, Sundance 2022, When You Finish Saving the World / 4 minutes of reading

When You Finish Saving the World Quicktake: Well-written, Funny, Great Performances What should we make of people who do the right thing for the wrong reasons? Would their karmic score be net positive or negative in the universe’s grand scheme? Life is messy and complicated, and sometimes good people do bad things. And as we …

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Jan 21 2022January 21, 2022

Sundance 2022: Emergency Review

By Victor Stiff / January 21, 2022 January 21, 2022 / Reviews / Black Film, Black Movie, Carey Williams, Donald Elise Watkins, Emergency, Festival, Film, Films, KD Davila, Maddie Nichols, Michael Dallatorre, Movie, Movies, Review, RJ Cyler, Sabrina Carpenter, Sebastian Chacon, Sundance, Sundance 2022 / 5 minutes of reading

Emergency Quicktake: Pensive, Charming & Surprisingly Intense Sean (RJ Cyler) and Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins) are two best friends and college roommates about to have the night of their lives. It’s the start of spring break, and the duo has planned a legendary seven-stop frat party crawl. But circumstances derail their night before the party …

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Dec 17 2021February 17, 2022

Spider-Man: No Way Home Review: Diving into the Spider-Verse

By Victor Stiff / December 17, 2021 February 17, 2022 / Reviews / Alfred Molina, Benedict Cumberbatch, crossover, Film, Jacob Batalon, Jamie Foxx, Jon Watts, Marisa Tomei, Marvel Cinematic Universe, MCU, Movie, Movie Review, No Way Home, Review, Sequel, Sony, Spider-Man, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Tom Holland, trilogy, Willem Dafoe, Zendaya / 6 minutes of reading

I’m just going to come out and say it. Spider-Man: No Way Home is the greatest live-action Spider-Man movie of all time. Director Jon Watts delivers all the action, drama, and laughs we expect from a Spider-Man film while taking the superhero genre in a bold new direction. Spider-Man: No Way Home is a pulse-pounding …

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