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THE LAST KNOCK presents: 300th Episode Celebration: Storytelling
Storytelling at 300 After six years, we’ve made it to the 300 mark! And we can’t thank you enough for listening. As we do with each landmark episode, we choose a topic off of the horror path. This time, it’s storytelling, which actually has much to do about the genre. And, um, as Dr. Seuss…
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The House that Jack Built by Jonny Numb
The House that Jack Built for… (Author’s Note: while the following review centers more on the tactics filmmaker Lars Von Trier employs to engage and provoke the viewer, it also refers to certain plot points to elaborate on said tactics, which may constitute spoilers. I would recommend that anyone curious watch the film before…
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Inland Empire – Goodbye Blue Tomorrows! (Part 2) by Jonny Numb
Inland Empire Says Goodbye to the Blues That’s right! As the housewife who is bored with her husband in Inland Empire, Dern looks on with a mix of bewilderment and amusement as a group of prostitutes do “The Locomotion,” and she is whisked away to snowy Poland, where the plot sporadically diverts, focusing on…
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Inland Empire – The Murk is the Message (Part 1) by Jonny Numb
Going Inland Empire Is there meaning to be found within Inland Empire? If so, you must allow a decade between each viewing. That is the conclusion I have come to. Along with: “Exterminate all rational thought” (thanks, Naked Lunch). It’s a film by David Lynch – a man whose ambition is matched only by his…
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THE LAST KNOCK presents: Unsane
Is Unsane Really a Trip? Unsane, the latest independent film from renowned director, Steven Soderbergh, hit theaters to explore the sanity – or insanity – of a woman trapped within the walls of an asylum. Other than the novelty that the film was shot on an iPhone (see Sean Baker’s amazing drama/comedy, Tangerine), THE LAST…
