Original Cinemaniac

Movie Reviews by Dennis Dermody

Blue Film

            An L.A. sex cam performer, who goes by the name “Aaron Eagle,” is offered $50,00 by a client to spend a night with him in director Elliot Tuttle’s deeply unsettling chamber piece, showcasing two fearless and brilliant performances by Kieron…
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The Stranger

            Director Francois Ozon’s mesmerizing, masterful adaptation of the 1942 novel by Albert Camus– which was a haunting, existential novel of a young man’s senseless murder of an Arab.             The film is about Meursault, (Benjamin Voisin from Ozon’s Summer of 85),…
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Dolly

            Gleefully grisly throwback to 70s horror cinema by director Rod Blackhust. This begins with Chase (Seann William Scott) surprising his girlfriend Macy (Fabianne Therese) by taking her out in the Tennessee woods to a scenic overlook in anticipation of proposing…
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