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Peek-a-Boo
Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve just run across the first genuinely Satanic movie of my life. Lots of horror flicks traffic in mere demonic trappings...
Film Shorts
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The Disappointments Room (R) Kate Beckinsale stars in this horror film as a mother who unleashes supernatural forces in the attic or her new...
Film Shorts // July 20-26, 2022
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La Abuela (R) This Spanish horror film stars Almudena Amor as a Paris fashion model who must return home to Madrid when her grandmother...
Film Shorts // March 17-23, 2021
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City of Lies (R) This thriller by Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) is about an ex-cop (Johnny Depp) and a reporter (Forest Whitaker) who...
Spirit Untamed: Even Cowgirls Give the Blues
Back in 2002, I saw Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and then more-or-less instantly forgot everything about it except for Bryan Adams singing (which...
Dunkirk: Death’s a Beach
Maybe I'm just fated to go through life admiring Christopher Nolan's movies more than I like them. Good thing I admire them a hell...
Gloria in Excelsis
This Sebastián Lelio doesn’t let the moss gather. The Chilean director has now put out four films made in three countries in a span...
Emma.: Make Me a Match
A few months ago, I mused about how new generations have new versions of Little Women to pick over. Why not do the same...
Shiny Penny
Penelope is one of those movies that looks really bad on paper.
A PG-rated female self-empowerment fable about an anatomical freak seeking the happiness that...
Out of Faction
Example No. 54,903,812 of the movie industry’s glass ceiling: While Hollywood is coming around at a snail’s pace to the idea that a fantasy-adventure...
