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- Created: 21 August 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
Novelist Lois Duncan was way ahead of her time. It is as if she had her finger on the pulse of all tomorrow’s youth, paving the way for the Young Adult movement in literature. Seriously. While everyone else was all Savannah Smiles-like, Duncan was pumping out ...
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- Created: 24 August 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
There’s a fairly early scene in The Happytime Murders that sets the twisted tone for what’s to follow. It takes place in a seedy area of Los Angeles in an even seedier sex shop where we witness – through a pulled back curtain into a darkened back room – an octopus violently ...
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- Created: 17 August 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
There is a line of dialogue in Papillon in which the prison warden says to his titular captive immediately upon opening the cell door at the conclusion of the prisoner's five-year stint in solitary confinement, "Not many make it five years in here,” says the ...
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- Created: 10 August 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
With a paper thin plot, erratic tone, and humor that rarely elicits so much as a slight chuckle, Dog Days, the latest from TV funnyman Ken Marino, is a film that should not work. But it does. Thanks to the furry faces, sloppy tongues, and wagging tails of its canine stars ...
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- Created: 20 July 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Spike Lee follows up his keenly poignant comedy/drama/musical Chi-Raq with BlacKkKlansman, another film that shares the same frustratingly uneven tone and disjointed structure yet always manages to slap its intended target squarely upside the head. And that target is ...
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- Created: 03 August 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
In Hollywood they say that timing is everything. And in the case of The Spy Who Dumped Me, the timing – whether intentional or otherwise – couldn’t have been any worse. The film releases on the heels of the Tom Cruise action juggernaut, Mission: Impossible – Fallout ...
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- Created: 24 July 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
Jumpin’ Jesus on a pogo stick! The Devil’s Doorway, released by IFC Midnight, is all sorts of intense. If Satan made 16mm home movies in 1960, then this 76-minute flick is probably what it would look like. The Devil’s Doorway is disturbing as it tells the story of two priests ...
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- Created: 16 July 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
Sometimes fairy tales can be very real. Even the most terrifying ones. The Incantation, starring Dean Cain and Sam Valentine, dusts off the idea of the power of fairy tales with a horrific look at just how demented they actually are. Page by page, inspired by a child’s story ...
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- Created: 13 July 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
In spite of its title, Sorry to Bother You is indeed out to bother you. But sorry about it? Not hardly. The film marks the directorial debut of Oakland-based rapper-turned-filmmaker Boots Riley, and what a debut it is. It is a weird and bizarre film, yet also insanely brilliant. At times ...
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- Created: 03 July 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
You already knew it would come to this: a prequel. Families held in cages. Children ripped from their mothers. Asylum seekers treated as criminals. And one hell of a 12-hour period of time in which ANYTHING heinous is permitted. If you think that it is ...
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