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The Guest: A Very Welcome Visitor
Director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett made a big splash with the horror film You’re Next. The movie had a lot of issues but it excelled at creating a fantastic heroine. Sharni Vinson owned...
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Ragnarok: A Fun Norwegian Film about Family, Vikings and an Angry Lake Monster
Ragnarok is an earnest little Norweigan film that centers around a family looking for Vikings and finding an angry prehistoric beast. It has a refreshingly simple A/B/C structure and plays like...
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Only Lovers Left Alive: The Vampires of Detroit
Jim Jarmusch sure is cool. Only Lovers left Alive is a laid back treasure that takes its time and builds super cool characters. The story of two vampires exploring the Detroit landscape is wonderful,...
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As Above, So Below: Tomb Raider and the Hunt for the Redeeming Ending
As Above, So Below is not a good film but it tries to rise above the rest. It features an Indiana Jones type heroine and an unexpected ending that left me satisfied and not thinking about the nausea...
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Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead: Return of the Nazi Zombie
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead is gloriously violent and all kinds of fun. Director Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow, Hansel and Gretel) is a maestro of mayhem who turns the violence and humor up to 11. He has...
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Frank: Papier-Mache Zeppelin
Frank tells the story of an eccentric band and their papier-mache loving front man. It is a relaxed movie that takes its time and relishes in the weird little moments of a bands life. What I love most...
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The Town That Dreaded Sundown: Re-imagining More of the Same
The Town That Dreaded Sundown could have been a contender. However, it falls into the stock slasher tropes and falls apart at the end. The director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon stated that there is a 15 minute...
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Joe: David Gordon Green Goes Back to His Roots
Joe is the type of film where you can smell the booze and feel every punch. It is atmospheric, grimy and knows exactly what it is. David Gordon Green has proven to be a master of small town...
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Honeymoon: A Fantastic Horror Film That Builds Tension and Creates Likable...
Horror movies are so much better when you like the characters being harassed. It is a very simple formula. When you add likable three-dimensional characters to a terrible situation you become...
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Predestination: A Man Walks Into a Bar
A man walks into a bar……ouch. Predestination tells the joke like this: A man walks into a bar and unloads a doozy of a story on the bartender…….Your brain hurts. Where do I start? When you attempt to...
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Pulp Reviews: The Mirror (2014), Extracted (2012), Exorcismus (2010)
PULP REVIEW: noun//A review devoid of a thorough or complete synopsis, but including snarky snippets of ideas and overall opinions/recommendations. Alt. def. A review of a movie that was not worth my...
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Devil: An Underrated 2010 Horror Gem That Deserves a Second Look
When I was a child, my mother would tell me a story about how the Devil roams the Earth. Sometimes, she said, he would take human form so he could punish the damned on Earth before claiming their...
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Movies I Love: The Great Googa Mooga Known as Evolution
Sometime science stinks. That’s the game we play baby. Everybody has a film they’ve watched dozens of times. For some reason a particular movie will connect and prove to be perfect background fodder...
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Spring: Love in a Time of Squishy Things
I’m living the fantasy of some rich American home wife. With these words Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci) sums up his Italian vacation. He recently lost his mom and as a way of coping he took off on an...
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Movies I Love: The Underrated 2009 Thriller A Perfect Getaway
You gotta get the details right. Otherwise we’re just making another craptastic movie. With this sentence Timothy Olyphant’s character sums up the film. Perfect Getaway is fantastic B-movie that looks...
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Movies I love: Five Things That Make Goon an Amazing Film
Hello all. Mark here. Goon is one of my favorite films. It is infinity rewatchable and loaded with likable characters, bone crunching fights and a really neat romance. The book adaptation flew under...
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Five Films You Might Have Missed in the Theaters: July/August 2015 Edition
Hello all. Mark here. Some movies get lost in the shuffle and slip through the theaters without you knowing. We humans are busy and can’t possibly watch all the vampire mockumentaries and absurdest...
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Creep: A Found Footage Horror Hybrid That Stands Out From its Peers
. The found footage world is a mixed bag of the good, the bad and the ugly. For every Blair Witch and Troll Hunter we get hundreds of The Gallows and Devil’s Pass movies. Occasionally, a weird little...
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The Totally Necessary Rankings of Nicholas Sparks Films: The Most Important...
Hello all. Mark here. When you hear the name Nicholas Sparks I’m pretty certain you will groan, scoff or say “I loved The Notebook!” His 10 book adaptations have grossed $862 million worldwide and...
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Slow West: Slowly Going the Way of the Bounty Hunter
Slow West is the kind of film where salt literally falls into somebodies bullet wound. It has an off-kilter vibe that blends tragedy, beauty, dark humor and gorgeous New Zealand cinematography into...
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