Category: Featured Posts
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Exit The Transformer: an Obituary for Lou Reed
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Read more: Exit The Transformer: an Obituary for Lou ReedI could reckon an existence of God if I thought God to be like the icon of Lou: omniscient but too hip to ever intervene. Give me a Velvet Underground afterworld.
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Captain Phillips: 2013
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Read more: Captain Phillips: 2013Capitalism makes dogs of us all. One of these men has to crumble, and it’s not going to be the one with a navy SEAL team manning his decks.
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Decoding Annie Parker
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Read more: Decoding Annie ParkerThe end result is a difficult travail, a film that would be too grim to watch were it not for Morton’s luminous and gripping performance. Once again, Bernstein has shown that he can get the optimal performance from a main actress.
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Insidious: Chapter Two
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Read more: Insidious: Chapter TwoA trite trip through tripe tropes. The parallels to The Conjuring really hold up, another marrowless but riveting medley of the old horror hits. Again we have a well paced mashup of great elements of horror movie classics: there’s Psycho, The Shining, Poltergeist. 100% Recycled classics
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RoboCop (2014) Trailer
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Read more: RoboCop (2014) TrailerGOD DAMMIT.
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The Grandmaster
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Read more: The GrandmasterIf you are making a biopic about the man famous for training Bruce Lee in the art of wing chun, could you possibly consider HAVING AT LEAST ONE FRICKING SCENE DEDICATED TO TRAINING THE GREATEST MARTIAL ARTIST OF THE 20TH CENTURY?
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Almost Human – Poliziotteschi
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Read more: Almost Human – PoliziotteschiSacchi shoots an old guy and, to make a show of his unparalleled meanness, disregards the two females present and forces the remaining man to fellate him at gunpoint.
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The World’s End
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Read more: The World’s EndA fully networked, modular, information based panopticon that knows what’s best for you, and doesn’t really care for dissent or drunken hooligans. Am I talking about the current British government or the ink blooded robots that are the obstacles of Pegg and Frost’s comedy duo?
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Cat People (1942 Val Lewton)
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Read more: Cat People (1942 Val Lewton)Cat People was one of the biggest hits of 1942. It competed favorably with Casablanca in the box office. The reason in part is because Cat People is the anti-vamp film. A more realistic title for the film might be Fear of a War Bride.
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Kickass 2
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Read more: Kickass 2More violence, less fun. This film comes off like a script written by a third grader that believes that saying the word motherfucker 100 times will magically transform you into Quentin Tarantino.