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View ArticleDVD Review: Vindication (2006)
What do you get when you cross an artsy experimental film with a slasher flick? Yeah, I know…a mess. But it’s an artsy mess. Vindication is a movie that provokes the question “What is happening here?”...
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Author Douglas Kennedy is an artist. Like a painter who uses brush strokes to flesh out a person’s individuality on canvas, author Kennedy uses skillful dialogue. A reader cannot help but learn about a...
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After taking a trip to a remote location, five friends disappear without a trace. No evidence has ever been found as to what happened to them until now. A mysterious tape has been dicovered and it will...
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This is a good example of a movie that does not know what it wants to be. It certainly had the potential to be an entertaining horror romp, but while it has a few things going for it, the end result is...
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While watching The Perfect Host, one gets the impression that it had two writers. Some scenes simply don’t appear to be on the same level as the others. It was only after I checked out the special...
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View ArticleMovie Review: Storytelling
In music it’s very common for artists to provide answers to criticism in the form of a song. It’s called a “diss track” or “diss song.” In movies it’s much harder to do that, because movies generally...
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