Deadly Jealousy Brews In ‘THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS’
A powerfully recalcitrant ode to romantic love lost and the broken families in that wake, ‘The Killing of Two Lovers’ is an intense human drama that showcases a powerful Clayne…
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‘THE DJINN’ a Threadbare Supernatural Home Invasion Snooze
The kind of horror movie that gives horror movies a bad name, 'The Djinn' is an abject failure of understanding what makes horror work. The second feature from writer-director duo…
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‘RIDERS OF JUSTICE’ and the Misguided Calculus of Revenge
Darkly humorous, deadly serious, and led by yet another commanding turn from the great Mads Mikkelsen, ‘Riders of Justice’ is an absurd and violent saga of vengeance with a surprisingly…
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‘WRATH OF MAN’ A Vengeful Layer Cake of Crime
As its title suggests, ‘Wrath of Man’ is a hyper-violent, hyper-masculine Guy Ritchie crime caper that follows the fallout of a heist gone wrong. With engaging action, crack editing, and…
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Scottish ‘LIMBO’ Stuck Inside the Plight of a Syrian-Refugee Llewyn Davis
Sardonic and soulful, ‘Limbo’ is a slow-moving and darkly funny drama about the ennui of immigration and the guilt of leaving behind a life unfulfilled that crescendoes to a thunderous,…
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Decent ‘VOYAGERS’ Is Teenaged Outer Space ‘Lord of the Flies’
A teenaged crew of astronauts grows up on a mission to a new Earth in 'Voyagers' but the journey can be a rocky one. There's philosophical intrigue about the ethics…
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Geriatric Horror ’HONEYDEW’ Serves Hospitality With a Heaping Side of Hostility
Old farm people are supposedly scary as sin in Devereux Milburn’s hostage-horror film 'Honeydew', a debut handicapped by lacking performances and an unjustifiably elongated runtime that fails to offer much…
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He Did It, He Actually Did It: The Journey of ‘ZACK SNYDER’S JUSTICE LEAGUE’
A breathless ode to the frighteningly almighty power of fandom, 'Zack Snyder's Justice League' has finally seen the light of day and, against all odds, it's a fairly riveting four-hour…
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Gratuitously Fun ‘NOBODY’ a Reverse John Wick Where Bob Odenkirk Kicks All the Ass
‘Nobody’ delivers exactly what it promises to with Bob Odenkirk proving himself a beefy blood-addicted badass when the time calls for it. Gratuitously violent, with clean action choreography and expertly…
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SXSW 2021: ‘SOUND OF VIOLENCE’ Is the Ultra-Campy ASMR Slasher You Didn’t Know You Needed
There is a scene early on in the absolutely bonkers horror camp-fest Sound of Violence where murderess-musician-mistress Alexis (Jasmin Savoy Brown) kidnaps a homeless man and rigs him up like an electric drum set. Part-hardware, part-flesh, done up as if Kevin Mcalester and Jigsaw were there to help perfect the evil mastermind mechanics. A meat...