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Some films use the 1990s as a quaint backdrop for throwback soundtracks and fashion. Raise Your Hand remembers the decade differently. It treats the past not as a costume box but as a fresh crime scene, examining a period before the language for certain traumas became commonplace.

Set in a bleak Midwestern high school, the film follows best friends Gia (Jearnest Corchado) and Lila (Hanani Taylor) as they navigate an adolescence defined by scarcity and peril.

This is not a story of coming of age so much as a document of survival, presented with a raw, unvarnished honesty that feels less like a narrative feature and more like a recovered artifact. The subject is resilience, but the film never lets you forget how much it costs.

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The world of Jefferson High is a closed system of systemic neglect, a perfect microcosm of societal determinism. Poverty,...

Am I Ok? Review — Am I Ok? (2022) Film Review from the 44th Annual Sundance Film Festival, a movie directed by Stephanie Allynne and Tig Notaro and starring Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jermaine Fowler, Kiersey Clemons, Molly Gordon, Whitmer Thomas, Sean Hayes, Tig Notaro, Odessa A’zion, Patrick McDonald, Mayank Bhatter, Jess Nurse, Emma [...]

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The classic 1983 Matthew Brodrick film WarGames is being revived for a modern audience. The film is the inspiration for a new interactive series called #WarGames in which viewers can finally answer the AI’s iconic taunt: “Shall we play a game?” Instead of focusing on Cold War paranoia like the original movie, this series will focus on "modern espionage, hacking and government conspiracy."

We've got a new trailer for you to watch today that gives us our first real look at the series and what the experience will be like. It actually looks really cool! The interactive series will launch on mobile, HelloEko.com, Vudu.com and Steam later this month.

The story follows a character named Kelly (Jess Nurse), "an ex-military brat turned hacker activist, as she and a team of international hackers band together in an attempt to bring about peace. As events escalate, they may have done more harm than good.