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by Vadim Rizov Hayden Schlossberg and Jon Hurwitz have written all three of the Harold and Kumar movies, maintaining an inexplicably inconsistent quality control throughout. Notwithstanding the really horrific/gross "Battleshits" sequence of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, the...
by Steve Dollar Reaching back to the collective subconscious to give audiences the willies, the vivid primal intensity of childhood nightmares underpins Kill List and animates its almost primordial sense of creeping dread. Down Terrace director Ben Wheatley's suspense thriller...
by Steve Dollar Exploding gators, swamp water mojo and a lowly wise six-year-old heroine named Hushpuppy seemed to be almost all that anyone really wanted to talk about at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Behn Zeitlin's audacious feature debut...
by Nick Schager What's new is always old, and in this recurring column, I'll be taking a look at the classic genre movies that have influenced today's new releases. In honor of Ti West's haunted-house tale The Innkeepers, this week...
by Vadim Rizov Scottish director David Mackenzie's first feature to see American release was 2003's love triangle/murder drama Young Adam; unfortunately, critical attention dilated not on his strong visual sense but Ewan McGregor's penis. Silly but true: Sony Pictures Classics...
by Steve Dollar Dudes are fucked up. One of the recurrent themes of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival was the damaged state of young American manhood. Maybe I just happened to pick all the right movies, and tapped into a...
by Nick Schager What's new is always old, and in this recurring column, I'll be taking a look at the classic genre movies that have influenced today's new releases. In honor of Joe Carnahan's Liam Neeson-vs.-wolf actioner The Grey, this...
by Vadim Rizov Come Back, Africa's primary intent is explicitly polemical: to depict apartheid in action and show the world what it was condoning through inaction. After premiering at the 1959 Venice Film Festival, director Lionel Rogosin couldn't find a...
by Steve Dollar With his bold visual style and intimate, if volatile, narratives, Gerardo Naranjo has been one of the most exciting independent directors to emerge from Mexico in the decade after filmmakers like Guillermo Del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón...
by Nick Schager What's new is always old, and in this recurring column, I'll be taking a look at the classic genre movies that have influenced today's new releases. In honor of the latest beast-vs.-bloodsucker saga Underworld: Awakening, this week...
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