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Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Friday, October 14, 2022

Bride and Doom

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[•REC]3: Genesis (2012, directed by Paco Plaza) makes the same "mistake" committed by Halloween III: The Season of the Witch a...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Female Bonding

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Black Rock (2012, directed by Katie Aselton) is a feminist variant of a familiar genre trope, in which a group of friends head out into th...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

The Waters of Lethe

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Elena (2012, directed by Petra Costa) is an example of the widening scope of the documentary. It's a film that suggests that the word,...
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

The Good Arab

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The Attack (2012, directed by Ziad Doueiri) takes a difficult subject and crafts a noir thriller around it. In doing so, it runs rings aro...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Lost in the Woods

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At the end of Ritual ( Modus Anomali , 2012, directed by Joko Anwar), I wanted to refer to the movie by the title of "Ritual in Trans...
Sunday, November 03, 2013

Going Through the Motions

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It's been a while since I've seen a movie as bad as Shiver (2012, directed by Julian Richards). I almost hate writing about it, to...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Another Roadside Massacre

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100 Bloody Acres (2012, directed by Cameron and Colin Cairns) is one of those rural massacre movies that grew up in the American South, on...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Duplication Errors

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Call it the Psycho dilemma: The danger that, when closely remaking a given film, you will miss some animating ka that gave the earlier fil...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Carrion Comfort Food

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After sitting through Cockneys vs. Zombies (2012, directed by Matthias Hoene), I think I'm going to take a long vacation from zombie m...
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

A Chinese Connection

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Johnnie To's Drug War (2012) finds the director working in Mainland China for the first time. As such, he's had to make certain......
Wednesday, October 09, 2013

A Round on the House

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The premise of Grabbers (2012, directed by John Wright) is what you would get if Ealing Studios back in the early 1950s had been into mons...
Tuesday, October 08, 2013

It's Only a Movie, It's Only a Movie...

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It seems almost obscene for me to be categorizing The Act of Killing (2012, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer) as any kind of genre film, giv...
Monday, October 07, 2013

Disease Vectors

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It's always hard for children of titanic fathers to step out of the shadows of their legacies. Some children make dramatic breaks--Dunc...
Friday, October 04, 2013

Damned If You Do

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The obvious touchstone for Xan Casavettes's 60s vampire pastiche, Kiss of the Damned (2012) is Jean Rollin, who made vampire movies an...
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Wednesday, October 02, 2013

All Politics is Local

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There are two musical interludes in Dibakar Banerjee's Shanghai (2012). I can't say that they aren't jarring, because they tot...

An Arm and a Leg

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As it flies off the rails in its second half, all I could think while I was watching American Mary (2012, directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

High and Low

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L'enfant d'en haut (aka: Sister , 2012, directed by Ursula Meier) is the first film that the great cinematographer, Agnes Godard, ...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

A Love Poem for No-one in Particular

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Back when The Sessions (2012, directed by Ben Lewin) was in theaters, I ran into a friend of mine coming out of our local art house wher...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

In My Glass Coffin, I Am Waiting...

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Allow me cut right to the chase with my thoughts on Blancanieves (2012, directed by Pablo Berger). Such was my delight in this movie that ...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

And the Colored Girls Sing...

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 The Sapphires (2012, directed by Wayne Blair) is a surprisingly serious film given that it's ostensibly a musical comedy biopic. Given...