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Review: VFW

Dec 12th, 2019 Jeremy Herbert

The street drug du jour in VFW’s near-if-not-adjacent future is Hype. The hows, the whys, and the highs don’t much matter — it looks like blow and makes you a homicidal maniac for another hit. So should a spurned sidekick to the Hype kingpin steal his remaining supply and take refuge in a...

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Review: Bombshell

Dec 9th, 2019Abby Olcese

The story of Bombshell was always going to be difficult to master tonally. It’s a movie about the female employees of Fox News who accused founder Roger Ailes of sexual assault, and whose accusations eventually caused his professional downfall....

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Review: Beyond the Law

Dec 7th, 2019Josh Bell

Back in 2001, fading action star Steven Seagal starred with rapper DMX in Exit Wounds, one of the last Seagal movies to get a wide theatrical release. Seagal has spent the years since then churning out a huge number of low-budget direct-to-video...

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Review: Sequestrada

Dec 5th, 2019Bill Bria

If Sequestrada were a documentary, it might be a success. Onscreen titles explain the plight of Brazil’s indigenous tribes, who have been displaced by the construction of river dams since at least 1989. Writers/directors Sabrina McCormick and...

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Review: In Fabric

Dec 4th, 2019Abby Olcese

Peter Strickland has always been a filmmaker on his own wavelength, making uniquely crafted movies like Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy for audiences that are practically a dictionary definition of the term “niche.” It’s hard...

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Review: Feast of the Epiphany

Dec 4th, 2019Marshall Shaffer

When I heard that Feast of the Epiphany, the inaugural feature film from the publication Reverse Shot, melded documentary and fiction, I assumed it would resemble the more formally audacious hybrids of filmmakers like Robert Greene (Kate Plays...

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Review: Spider

Nov 28th, 2019Audrey Fox

Are we ever truly able to escape the past? The mistakes that we’ve made, opinions we’ve held, and lines that we’ve crossed may feel like ancient history, but they’re always there. Hidden under a thin layer of dust, waiting for someone to...

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Review: To Your Last Death

Nov 28th, 2019Jeremy Herbert

One of my favorite flavors of indie horror is the mixtape, lovingly dubbed by filmmakers from an oddball greatest hits of genre inspiration. To Your Last Death is equal parts Heavy Metal, Cabin in the Woods, Saw, and The Belko Experiment. Not every...

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The A24 Religion

Nov 27th, 2019Michael Frank

On their website, you can buy a hat for $35, a grooming set for $42, candles for $48, T-shirts, hoodies, socks, and even beach towels ($45). The majority of items have the words “SOLD OUT” next to them. It’s not a fashion brand, or a beauty...

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Tidings of Comfort and Joy

Nov 26th, 2019Craig J. Clark

It’s a common enough sight in Christmas films: holiday shoppers admiring animatronic window displays and taking advantage of the sales at department stores while appropriate music plays over the loudspeakers. In 1984’s hard-to-find Comfort and...