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America Has Fallen

By Matthew Passantino | August 2017

Writer-director Tom Getty’s loathsome America Has Fallen adds itself to the apparent Fallen cinematic universe, which is forming around America being in…

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Writer-director Tom Getty’s loathsome America Has Fallen adds itself to the apparent Fallen cinematic universe, which is forming around America being in...

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On April 29, 1992, rioting spread across Los Angeles after four Los Angeles police officers were acquitted for the beating of Rodney King. For six days,...

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The last time I heard and used the term “stick the landing” was in reference to the release of The Dark Knight Rises which, in my opinion, did...

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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power - the follow-up to the 2006 Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth - plays like an ecological thriller...

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Michael Almereyda's film Marjorie Prime takes us 20 minutes (years?) into the future when software and interfaces will be so seamless that we won’t be...

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Liza, Liza, Skies Are Grey is a coming-of-age movie set in Los Angeles during the 60's. Young men face the reality of being drafted to Vietnam and may...

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Karate Kill harkens back to a politically incorrect era of filmmaking filled with Oh-My-God moments. From writer/director Kurando Mitsutake, Karate Kill is...

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Horror anthologies are most often a mixed bag, with even the best of them – Creepshow, V/H/S, Trick 'r Treat, et al – varying pretty noticeably in...

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Japanese helmer Koji Fukada, active since 2008, has in Harmonium his best film so far. As an advocate of solemn dramas with surprising twists, Mr. Fukada,...

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Writer/director Dustin Guy Defa explores everyone’s need for human connection in his drama, Person To Person. Defa's large cast and multiple storylines...

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