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We’re Not Here to Fuck Spiders: A Grungy Cinema Verité Head Trip by Susan Leighton
When Found Footage Gets Real: Grungy Cinema We’re Not Here to Fuck Spiders is Josh Reed’s latest effort and it takes the heist movie gone horribly wrong premise and adds crystal meth into the mix for a mind-blowing cinema verité exercise. This is not a movie for people who are readily put off by…
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Predator by Jonny Numb
Predator 2018 I saw The Predator at a Saturday-afternoon matinee in Manhattan, in IMAX, and despite the room-rattling sound and near-relentless onslaught of action, someone in the upper tiers kept dozing off, the snores permeating the lulls where the gunfire and explosions relented for some witty repartee between characters. You can’t please everyone, I guess. It also…
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68 Kill (2017) by Jonny Numb
68 Kill [95 minutes. R. Director: Trent Haaga] 68 Kill is the sophomore directorial effort of screenwriter Trent Haaga, who subverted the horror genre with his thought-provoking scripts for Deadgirl and Cheap Thrills. While the cast will appeal to genre fans, the film has more in common with the pitch-dark, trailer-park comedy of William Friedkin’s…
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The Mask (Eyes of Hell) by Dee Emm Elms
“This mask revealed something … that I had never seen before.” [The Mask: 1961. 83 minutes. Rating: Approved. Director: Julian Roffman] Almost everyone familiar with storytelling knows of the concept of “The McGuffin,” even if not by that name. For those who don’t, it’s the idea that there is an object or entity that isn’t…
