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Famous for fronting the hard rock act White Zombie, Rob Zombie has become a master of the grisly horror flick. His 2007 remake of Halloween is disturbingly violent. He shows a bit more subtlety with his latest feature, The Lord...
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Room 237, Rodney Ascher’s documentary about Stanley Kubrick’s horror film The Shining artfully explores the various theories of hidden meanings associated with the movie. An intriguing documentary that uses footage from a varie...
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There’s very little gray area in 42, a biopic about Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson, the first African American on a major league team. As played by Chadwick Boseman, Robinson is a guy who elicits our sympathy after Dodgers own...
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Whether or not you believe that dark, other-worldly forces menaced a Long Island family in the 1970s, it’s clear minutes into the documentary My Amityville Horror (now on VOD) that at least one person was and is still truly hau...
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Director Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire) has a host of great movies to his credit. Following 127 Hours, his 2010 film about a rock climber who cuts off his own arm to survive, Trance is yet anoth...
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Ryan Gosling plays a festival-circuit motorcycle daredevil turned outlaw in The Place Beyond the Pines. The dramatic three-part film explores how the sins of the fathers affect the lives and relationships of their sons. Gosling...
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Photographer Eric Schwartz originally set out to create portraits of people with tattoos for an exhibit. He soon realized there was more to the story, so he began making a short documentary. That short documentary eventually tu...
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Director Derek Cianfrance skyrocketed to fame after his Blue Valentine became an indie hit in 2010. But he actually started writing his latest feature, The Place Beyond the Pines, well before he filmed Blue Valentine. The film,...
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Aside from a few well-choreographed martial arts sequences, G.I. Joe Retaliation has little going for it. An ill-conceived sequel to 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, it starts out with a scene in which the G.L. Joes are betr...
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Given the epic quality of his “Vengeance Trilogy,” we had great expectations for Stoker, the English language debut from Korean director Park Chan-wook. And in terms of visual style, Stoker certainly has plenty going for it. Th...