Director Amy Seimetz’s eerily relevant, visually trippy nightmare fable begins with Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil), who suddenly becomes convinced that she will be dead tomorrow. Unfortunately, her morbid “idee fixe” has a communicable effect on her friends, and this overwhelming…
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The Celluloid Closet by Vito Russo was a groundbreaking work which shone a spotlight on the shameful way gay people were presented in film through the years. If you were gay in a movie you usually ended up dead in…
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Director Vaclav Marhoul’s harrowing and beautiful adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird is a nearly 3-hour, black & white, Hieronymus Bosch-like hellscape. Petra Kotlar hauntingly plays the young boy Petra, sent to a rural village in Eastern Europe to…
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As the dog days of summer approach, what better way to celebrate than in an air-conditioned room and a nice cool drink with one of these deranged Blu-rays. This month has some digitally improved discs of The War Of The…
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Director Natalie Erika James’ first feature-length film is the most terrifying, and surprisingly moving, film you’ll see this year. Emily Mortimer plays Kay, who drives from Melbourne with her older daughter Sam (Bella Heathcote) because a neighbor reports to the…
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A mysterious ship sails into a London port, seemingly without a crew. Authorities apprehensively board the vessel to find countless bloodless bodies. They approach a hold, hearing a demonic cackle, and up rises Renfield, the doomed, possessed slave of Count…
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