Author: Ezra Stead
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The Art of Darkness: Apocalypse Now & Full Metal Jacket
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Read more: The Art of Darkness: Apocalypse Now & Full Metal Jacket“War is hell,” the cliche’ proclaims, but it seems to be entertaining hell. Along with other ghastly subjects such as murder and vampirism, war ranks among the most popular and commonly used subject matter of filmed entertainment.
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The Lost Boys
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Read more: The Lost BoysThe Lost Boys is probably my favorite vampire movie of all time, if I’m being honest with myself. It’s certainly the one I’ve seen the most over the years, ever since that wonderful first late-night TV viewing as a child still young enough to be a bit disturbed by the over-the-top bloodletting in its third…
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Joker: Folie a Deux (2024)
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Read more: Joker: Folie a Deux (2024)It is not uncommon for creators of all sorts to become disgusted with their own most successful works. Joker: Folie à Deux, the utterly joyless follow-up to Todd Phillips’s 2019 smash hit Joker, is the most egregious example I’ve ever seen of this phenomenon
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The Substance (2024)
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Read more: The Substance (2024)Writer-director Coralie Fargeat made a big, bold, bloody splash with her 2017 debut feature Revenge, a smart, feminist take on the rape-revenge thriller that is stylish, riveting, and extremely violent
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Kinds of Kindness (2024)
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Read more: Kinds of Kindness (2024)None of the various characters in the three short films that comprise this wildly original anthology behave in ways seen by normal society as “kind,” but the odd and often disturbing “noble deeds” they do are all rooted in a desire for “kindness,”
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Big Shark (2023)
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Read more: Big Shark (2023)The Main Cinema in Minneapolis, which hosted the long-awaited Minnesota premiere of Tommy Wiseau’s Big Shark last weekend, serves strong whiskey cocktails in cans at the concession stand. Ordering one, I thought twice and said, “Better make it two; it’s a Tommy Wiseau movie.”
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Movie Geeks Manifesto
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Read more: Movie Geeks Manifesto“My love of cinema supersedes all moral considerations.” -Alfred Hitchcock
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
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Read more: Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaTo call Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga a prequel is reductive, as the term tends to imply a sort of retroactive reverse engineering of what made an original work successful, or an unnecessary cash-grab
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Aku wa sonzai shinai: Evil Does Not Exist
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Read more: Aku wa sonzai shinai: Evil Does Not ExistEvil Does Not Exist, the latest feature from celebrated auteur Ryusuke Hamaguchi, has a title reminiscent of a horror movie, much like Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite.
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Sasquatch Sunset (2024)
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Read more: Sasquatch Sunset (2024)The wordless opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick’s seminal sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the most memorable and influential of all time, but let’s be honest: it could have used more piss, shit, vomit, and fucking.