Annette, the dazzling new film by Leos Carax (Holy Motors), now streaming on Amazon Prime, is about the tumultuous love affair between an edgy, stand-up comedian (Adam Driver) and a renowned opera singer (Marion Cotillard). It’s done as a crackpot…
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A fiendish, supremely suspenseful slice of bloody revenge is opening in Theaters and On Demand July 2. Megan Fox plays Emma, a woman conflicted about celebrating her anniversary with her controlling, attorney husband (Eoin Macken). He takes her to a…
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Devereux Milburn’s macabre, sublimely unsettling film is about a young couple on a camping trip- Sam, an aspiring actor (Sawyer Spielberg) and Rylie (Malin Barr), investigating, for her thesis, a blight on wheat that caused mutations and the death of…
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It’s bad enough being trapped in your apartment for a year, but self-imprisoned watching a bad movie really reminds you how horrible life can be. Now, to be honest, I saw a lot of terrific things through my television this…
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Well, I’m sure glad to see this year in the rear-view mirror. But I admit movies saved me through all this. Granted, none of them were seen in movie theaters, but if a movie is good it will grab and…
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“No one in the universe loves their kid more than I do,” exclaims Diane (Sarah Paulson) to her special-needs daughter Chloe (Kiera Allen). Frankly, Joan Crawford starts looking like “Mother of the Year” after this smart, incredibly tense thriller by…
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There’s always a sense of impending dread in a film from director Bryan Bertino. A sense that everything is not going to turn out all right in the end. It makes his films memorably darker but often a lot scarier. …
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What’s unfortunate about this indie horror film by Marcel Walz is, while there are a lot of terrific twists, you just wish it was a scarier film. The story is about Faye (Sarah French), a famous actress living up in…
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A young couple vacationing in a tropical paradise find themselves in a living, waking nightmare from director Darren Lynn Bousman (who directed several of the Saw movies and knows how to sadistically tighten the noose on poor unfortunates). Luke Hemsworth…
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I am overjoyed the NY Film Festival persevered this year, despite the odds. And they did so with their usual intelligence and humor (the festival poster by John Waters was a great, funny touch). Their film choices were even more…
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