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Author Archive: Dennis Dermody

No Escape

             Keegan Allen (King Cobra) plays Cole, a good-looking, arrogant, internet vlogger, who has built a 10-year international fan base watching his goofy antics traveling the globe, taking crazy risks, and always looking for the next thrill. The original title…
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The Owners

            A beautiful stately manor house in England, located far from anyone, amid green, rolling hills. This is the setting for a home invasion tale that goes spectacularly, violently, wrong in director Julius Berg’s tense thriller. Mary (Maisie Williams, Arya Stark…
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Dumb Dinosaurs

            Most kids love dinosaurs. I remember when I was very young being dazzled by an ad on the back of a comic book that offered a 6 ft. Tyrannosaurus Rex. I sent in my money and weeks later a thin…
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WTF Film Festival 2

            A while back I wrote an article about a series of movies I call WTF Cinema– films that are so whacked-out and weird they defy quick characterization. But since then, I realized there were plenty of titles I forgot. Movies…
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She Dies Tomorrow

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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