7 years ago
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“The Gallows”
Congratulations, The Gallows: You’re this year’s As Above, So Below, which means that you’re this year’s Chernobyl Diaries, and on and on throughout found footage’s rich history as a hotbed for horror hack-work. (For every Trollhunter, there’s an Apollo 18. Fo...
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“Minions”
Children, those little clay-lumps upon whom pop culture can imprint with unmatched ease, probably shouldn’t be allowed around Minions. The little yellow pill-shaped hellions that star in this spin-off of upstart animation studio Illumination’s runaway success ...
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“Strangerland”
There’s a lot of intrigue and very little of interest in director Kim Farrant’s debut feature. It’s a movie of elisions and withholding, parceling out information at a snail’s pace while simmering in an overheated, eroticized atmosphere that promises far more ...
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“Do I Sound Gay?”
It’s certainly been an incredible week for LGBT rights in the United States. With the June 26th ruling of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court declared that it was a nationwide constitutional right for same-sex couples to be allowed to legally marry. In the...
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“Cartel Land”
The drug war in Mexico has raged for nearly a decade and claimed more than 100,000 lives, but America media has been contemptibly reticent to give it much significant coverage. Even documentarians, generally on the forefront on social issues, have been relucta...
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“Amy”
A sad air of familiarity and a creeping sense of ghoulishness conspire to sink Asif Kapadia’s Amy, an otherwise well-intentioned look at a tragic pop star that’s as frustrating as it is curious. Struggling to strike the balance between life celebration and dow...
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“Stung”
In the vast and varied catalog of horror film villains, giant bugs have historically been paid little respect. Big damn insects tend to be B-movie fodder for Mystery Science Theater 3000 or drive-ins. If Benni Diez’s Stung proves anything, it’s that relegation...
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“Terminator: Genisys”
To watch James Cameron’s 1984 The Terminator again is to marvel at its ruthless narrative efficiency and the craft of making a great deal out of very little. It’s such a tightly scripted, self-contained little B-movie masterpiece that the film demanded a serie...
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“Jimmy’s Hall”
In Jimmy’s Hall, Irish politics circa the 1930s have set the stage for something like Footloose, though with brogues instead of Kevin Bacon. Based on the real-life tribulations of communist rouser of rabbles Jimmy Gralton (played by Barry Ward), the film follo...
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“Mala Mala”
We live in an interesting time for transgender visibility. Laverne Cox’s stint on the Netflix series "Orange is the New Black" has allowed her to catapult into an arena where she can call attention to trans rights and the oppression trans people face, particul...
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