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GLADIATOR II Review: Scott Returns to Imperial Rome With Mixed Results
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After more than two decades in development limbo, countless rejected drafts permanently memory-holed to studio vaults, and near endless studio dawdling, Ridley Scott (Napoleon, Blade Runner, Alien), seemingly inexhaustible even as his 87th birthday quickly approaches, makes a triumphant return...
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Morbido 2024: Award Winners, THE DEVIL’S TEARDROP Sheds no Tears, Taking The Golden Skull
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The seventeenth edition of Morbido has all but wrapped up for another year. Despite our absence we were still able to wrangle in some reviews for films made by our friends down south, with one more coming down the pipeline. ...
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NEVER LOOK AWAY Review: A Dangerously Extraordinary Life
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Journalism is in crisis; in part due to people now getting their news from social media, in part due to the web forcing many newspapers and television outlets to publish their work for free; in part due to people not...
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Morbido 2024 Review: DUES IRAE, Spanish Exorcism Horror Challenges With Structure And Content
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Father Javier is a man with a mission, and an addiction. His mission is to visit families with family members who are under some kind of spell. Javier does not believe that these incidents are nothing more than psychological or...
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Ji.hlava 2024 Interview: Tsai Ming-liang on Hand-Sculpted Cinema, Breaking the Industry Norms and New Films
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The Taiwanese master of slow cinema discuses VR works, the intersection of theatre, performance art and cinema, and upcoming works. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Sound And Vision: Rupert Sanders
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In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: How To Destroy Angels' The Space In Between, directed by Rupert Sanders. Rupert Sanders likes his liquids thick and his protagonists...
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DRAG ME TO HELL 4K Review: Mad, Visceral Storytelling
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Sam Raimi’s 2009 return to horror after the 1992 Army of Darkness, Drag Me to Hell, is from a more innocent time. Just like ye old E.C. Comics and Tales From the Darkside, Drag Me to Hell is a morality...
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Friday One Sheet: HOT FROSTY (Sorry)
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I apologized in the title, and I apologize again here, for propagating the deluge of Christmas themed romantic and family slop on the various streaming services. Recently this is providing much needed work for Lindsay Lohan, albeit Lohan does not appear the...
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RED ONE Review: Short on Christmas Cheer, Long on Holiday Schmear
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If there was a Guinness World Record for the most jacked-up Santa in a big-budget, Hollywood-financed, holiday-themed action-comedy, Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) would win hands down and biceps curled for his committed portrayal of Father Christmas (aka, St. Nick,...
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Now Streaming: THE DAY OF THE JACKAL Feels Like a Week
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Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch, and Ursula Corbero star in a series inspired by Frederick Forsyth's suspense novel. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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