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Alex Saveliev

Alex graduated from Emerson College in Boston with a BA in Film & Media Arts and studied journalism at the Northwestern University in Chicago. While there, he got acquainted with the late Roger Ebert, who supported and inspired Alex in his career as a screenwriter and film critic. Alex has produced, written and directed a short zombie film, “Parched,” which is being distributed internationally and he is developing a series for a TV network, and is in pre-production on a major motion picture.

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Film Festival Reviews

2020 AFI FEST Review: Andrea Riseborough Wanders Through A Gilded Ghost Town In Zeina Durra’s Somnambulant “Luxor”

Alex SavelievOctober 19, 2020October 19, 2020

  When British aid worker Hana returns to the ancient city of Luxor, she meets former lover Sultan. As she wanders, haunted by the familiar place, she struggles to reconcile the choices of the past with the uncertainty of the present.

Movie Reviews

Movie Review: Drinks And Relationships Are “On The Rocks” In Sofia Coppola’s Tour De Force

Alex SavelievUpdated on September 28, 2020September 28, 2020

  A young mother reconnects with her larger-than-life playboy father on an adventure through New York.

Movie Reviews

Movie Review: The Protagonists Of “Centigrade” Get Buried In Snow For 127 Hours

Alex SavelievSeptember 23, 2020September 23, 2020

  A married couple find themselves trapped in their frozen vehicle after a blizzard and struggle to survive amid plunging temperatures and unforeseen obstacles.

4K/Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Reviews

4K Ultra HD Review: Donuts, Numbnuts & War: Revisiting Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket”

Alex SavelievUpdated on September 21, 2020September 21, 2020

  A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Movie Reviews

Movie Review: If You Have To Get “Lost In London,” It May As Well Be With Woody Harrelson

Alex SavelievUpdated on September 11, 2020September 11, 2020

  Within the course of one night, Woody Harrelson finds himself in a misadventure in London that winds him up in jail.

4K/Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Reviews

4K Ultra HD Review: Sandworms, Carousels And Keaton: Revisiting Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice”

Alex SavelievUpdated on September 5, 2020September 5, 2020

  The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.

Movie Reviews

Movie Review: “I Used To Go Here” Goes Nowhere

Alex SavelievAugust 31, 2020August 21, 2020

  Following the launch of her new novel, 35-year-old writer Kate is invited to speak at her alma matter by her former professor. After accepting the invitation, Kate finds herself deeply enmeshed in the lives of a group of college students.

Movie Reviews

Movie Review: Clothes Make The Man In Robert Schwentke’s “The Captain”

Alex SavelievUpdated on August 20, 2020August 20, 2020

  In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain’s uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he is trying to escape from.

Movie Reviews

Movie Review: The Wise Kids Of “Boys State” Trump Our Own Administration

Alex SavelievAugust 14, 2020August 9, 2020

  A thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas join together to build a representative government from the ground up.

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