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The Visionary Vision of Denis Villenueve’s Dune
What do we mean when we say “visionary?” Who is a visionary? The Webster Dictionary defines the word as: “having or marked by foresight and imagination” or “one having unusual fore…
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The Troubles, The Commitments, and The Criterion Collection
The 80s and 90s seemed, from an outward looking perspective, to be dominated by the ongoing conflict between the IRA (Irish Republican Army, used here as a catch-all for the differ…
Categories Undiagnosed ADD
That’s No Dog: A Re-Examination of The Thing 2011 And The Future Remake
John Carpenter's The Thing was not a critical or commercial success when it was originally released in 1982. It was only after repeated showings on pay cable channels and VHS that …
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Silence of the Lambs And The Cheap Ploy of Hannibal Lecter
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
We're a culture obsessed with murder and murderers, serial killers to be more precise. We know them by their nicknames: The Son of Sam, BTK, The Green Riv…
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Sergeant York And World War II Propaganda
WORLD WAR I
To say World War I started only because Serbians assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand is an over simplification of a much bigger issue. It's a high school textbook re…
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Kids, Cuties, and the Last Temptation of Movies
CUTIES
It’s not often I feel the need to defend a movie. Defending a movie isn’t my job, it’s the job of the studios, the director, the writers, the actors, and other people invol…
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Vivarium And The Suburban Nightmare
(Your new home comes with some spoilers) Lorcan Finnegan's Vivarium isn't going to please everyone. Audiences, by and large, like movies that ask questions. Would we still be talki…
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Pitch Black Awakens From Cryo Sleep On Arrow Video
(It's a twenty-year-old movie so forgive us for not warning you of the spoilers ahead) The Fast and the Furious franchise has made more than $5 billion dollars at the worldwide box…
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Attack of the Unknown Invades VOD In August
(There's spoiler falling from the sky) Mahal Empire Productions, the production company behind Bus Party to Hell and Art of the Dead, is at it again. This time the threat isn't fro…
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Why Don’t You Just Die! A Russian Tale Of Revenge And Betrayal
(There’s spoilers in these walls) It’s a story as old as the hills: Boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, girl convinces boy to murder her father who she accuses of raping h…