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Double Feature Showdown – The Faculty vs. Cooties
I’m going to be honest with you; I am not a fan of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. (I kind of like the books, but I haven’t read them in about twenty years, so who knows what I think now.) The movies are…
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Film Review – Yakuza Apocalypse
Normally when I review a film, it’s pretty easy to give a simple, no-spoiler synopsis of the plot. Most movies make some kind of sense, and if weird things happen, they are pretty much explainable within the context of the story. Not so much with…
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SIFF Film Review – The New Girlfriend
Watching The New Girlfriend (Une Nouvelle Amie) directed by François Ozon at a Seattle International Film Festival press screening was a reminder to me of how expectations about a film can skew the actual view experience. When I go see a movie, I only want…
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Film Review – Grandma
Are abortion movies a thing now? Called the first “abortion comedy,” Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child dealt with the issue head on, and now another movie, Grandma written and directed by Paul Weitz, takes another straightforward look at a woman choosing to terminate her pregnancy. And…
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Film Review – Bloodsucking Bastards
Pretty much all I want to do in my life is play board games, read books, and watch horror movies. I intersperse these things with other activities such as eating, making stuff, and interacting with my family, but that’s what is most likely on my…
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SIFF Film Review – Guidance
Ah, the idiot man-child: comedy staple or sad, overused trope? Both actually. I won’t deny I occasionally enjoy watching a dysfunctional dude implode before learning a valuable lesson; Happy Gilmore and School of Rock come to mind as very funny comedies about men who have…
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Film Review – Dark Places
Gillian Flynn has had a lot of influence in the book world since her novel Gone Girl was released. And for good reason, it’s a nasty, twisty, fun little thriller. David Fincher – working from Flynn’s script – made a pretty decent movie from the…
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Film Review – Creep
So, I’ve written a little about found footage films in the past, but I think it’s time to address the controversy head on. (There’s not really any controversy other than some people hate them and other people just keep saying the form is dead. “Controversy”…
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