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Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Inside Outside

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I think that you can't actually spoil a good movie, but I also know that many people think that spoilers are rude. This is a dilemma wh...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Don't Worry, Be Happy

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Jaume Balaguero is a horror filmmaker who knows the value of cruelty. His films aren't content to just knife the viewer in the small of...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Exiles on the Flood

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Shun Li and the Poet ( Io sono Li , 2011, directed by Andrea Segre) is set in Chioggia, a town near Venice, on the Venetian lagoon, but it...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

A Road Not Taken

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Somewhere in the middle of Gun Hill Road (2011, directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green), my viewing companion commented: "No way she surv...
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Friday, December 14, 2012

Sibling Rivalry

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For the first two acts of Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister (2012-ish), I was getting kind of impatient with it. Is this film go...
Friday, November 30, 2012

An Appointment In Tehran

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So, two different versions of Tehran in two films in two months. The Tehran of Argo was a place of terror, of menace, of geo-politik paran...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Baying at the Moon

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The Howling Reborn (2011, directed by Joe Nimziki) is what you get when exploitation filmmakers try to ride the zeitgeist. It's about a...
Thursday, November 08, 2012

Night Life

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One of the things I've been noticing about some of my horror movie selections this October is a tendency among low budget horrors to de...
Monday, November 05, 2012

Darkness, Take My Hand

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The HP Lovecraft Historical Society returns to filmmaking with their version of The Whisperer in Darkness (2011, directed by Sean Branney)...
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Past Imperfect

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There aren't any new ideas in the horror genre, usually, but sometimes, someone will take an existing idea and give it a new twist. I w...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Myth Guided

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This is a part of the Camp and Cult Blogathon . The mad genius behind this is Stacia over at She Blogged by Night . One of the things I a...
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Saturday, September 08, 2012

A Hong Kong Elegy

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On its surface, Ann Hui's A Simple Life (2011) plays like an Ozu-ish family drama, carefully observed and in touch with a basic shared ...
Thursday, September 06, 2012

Life Among the Nerds, and Short and Sweet

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I spent five days in Chicago at the World Science Fiction Convention this past weekend. I'm not much of a con-goer, even though I've...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

Touchy Feely

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It's nice to see that the French can do Hollywood schmaltz. I mean, most of the French films that make it to our shores are decidedly a...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

A Family Affair

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My local art house's Homebrewed series finished up last night with In the Family (2011, directed by Patrick Wang), a heart-wrenching d...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

It's Hard to Get Good Help These Days

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Headhunters (2011, directed by Morten Tyldum) is a precision clockwork of a thriller based around the notion that its central character i...
Monday, June 25, 2012

The Object of Chaos

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The Raid: Redemption (2011, directed by Gareth Evans) features a title that is both on point and utterly meaningless. It's original ti...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Losing My Religion

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This is part of the Queer Film Blogathon hosted by Caroline over at Garbo Laughs and Andreas and Ashley over at Pussy Goes Grrr (who I...
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Monday, June 18, 2012

Boy Meets Boy

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This is part of the Queer Film Blogathon hosted by Caroline over at Garbo Laughs. I don't think I'm offering any blazing insight ...
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Monday, June 11, 2012

Boys and Girls

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This is part of the LBGT Blogathon hosted by YAM Magazine. It's also a prelude to next week's Queer Film Blogathon hosted by Car...
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