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Special Actors, Shinichiro Ueda’s follow-up to the break-away hit One Cut of The Dead, is a feel-good comedy involving cults, ghosts,...
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The subject of an instructional video cassette becomes aware of his own existence in Quinn Armstrong’s debut feature Survival Skills....
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Justin McConnell’s Clapboard Jungle documents five years in the life of an indie filmmaker. The documentary is not only a must-see for the advice from established filmmakers and producers, but also because McConnell takes you along for the rollercoaster ride of emotions involved in getting a project off the ground. You’re...
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Social media can really bring out the worst in all of us. In Ivo Van Aart’s comedic thriller The Columinst...
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Rage fuels the title character in Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion’s movie Becky. After her mother’s unfortunate passing, the teenager is...
Joining prime examples of the power of good filmmaking is director Zoe Wittock’s Jumbo, a film with a truly bizarre premise that moved me through the sheer power of storytelling. It’s not unlike The Shape of Water (2017) in the way it makes the viewer deeply, emotionally invested in a...
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In Sao Paulo, a city already rife with poverty, death and corruption, an ancient evil will be awakened, bringing destruction...
Joining the tradition of the stalker horror subgenre, specifically the “lady stalker” theme of films like Misery and Fatal Attraction,...
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The iconic, bipedal cryptid who typically inhabits the Pacific Northwest has somehow made his way to Georgia. That’s what the good people at VICE believe, at least. In The VICE Guide to Bigfoot, a mockumentary that premiered at the Austin Film Festival in 2019, a producer and his frustrated reporter...
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It’s ironic that the fantasy genre, for all its promises to sweep us away to a world of, well, fantasy,...
Earlier this month, many of us were shocked to see our uncles or our old high school friends on Facebook...
I could spend hours talking about why I love 1941’s The Wolf Man. There’s the makeup, the cast (Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains and Bela Lugosi?!), and the movie’s importance to werewolf lore (silver-as-kryptonite and full-moon-transformations come from this film). But what will always get me about this movie is the ending....
