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Film Review – The Ghoul
There’s a certain kind of horror film that is distinctly British: occult driven and somewhat ambiguous, with the participants deep down unsurprised about the goings on based on a shared cultural heritage of paganism. (I’d actually really love to see one of these films with…
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SIFF Film Review – The Big Sick
My favorite television show of all time is The X-Files. (Not season 10 though. There was one good episode, but the rest was CRAP.) My friend John recommended this podcast called The X-Files Files a couple of years ago hosted by this guy Kumail Nanjiani,…
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SIFF Film Review – The Hero
In director Brett Haley’s new film The Hero, which featured at the Seattle International Film Festival, Sam Elliott plays Lee Hayden, a 71 year-old actor at the end of his career. He’s still doing commercials – and with that voice why wouldn’t he – but…
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SIFF Double Feature – The Man and Infinity Baby
The Man: Directed by Charlotte Sieling, The Man tells the story of Simon Brahe (Søren Malling), a world-famous Danish painter with a solid career, a beautiful wife, a workshop full of assistants to bring his ideas to life, a much-younger lover Lai, and a son…
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SIFF Double Feature – Sami Blood and A Date for Mad Mary
Sami Blood: My first exposure to the Sami people was in an issue of National Geographic Magazine when I was a kid; I was fascinated with their lives and would repeatedly scour the magazine for information. (I still have a copy somewhere in my house.)…
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Film Review – The Lovers
I just want to go on record as saying that I love Debra Winger. I love her a lot. Not in a creepy way (or not in a way that I think is creepy), but I just dig her. I have never made it though…
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SIFF Double Feature – The Fabulous Allan Carr and Entanglement
The Fabulous Allan Carr: I came to this documentary not knowing anything about it’s subject, but since director Jeffrey Schwarz made one of my favorite movies of all time, I am Divine, it was pretty much a given I was going to watch it. Schwarz…
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SIFF Double Feature – A Dragon Arrives! and Bad Black
A Dragon Arrives!: I am 99% sure this film is loaded with subtext, but since I know nothing about Iran in the 1960s, I have no idea what it is. But there’s a ton of text to deal with, so I will do just that.…
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