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By Anthony Ray Bench | March 2017

Prevenge is an impressive film on many different levels. Written, starring, and directed by Alice Lowe, and shot on a modest budget in…

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Prevenge is an impressive film on many different levels. Written, starring, and directed by Alice Lowe, and shot on a modest budget in just two...

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There’s a scene in The Pianist that ended my interest in watching holocaust films. In the Warsaw ghetto an SS thug pulls a Luger and shoots a pretty...

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"A black comedy done tastefully." I’m not so sure about that. How can I describe Auntie Lee's Meat Pies without it sounding either moronic or...

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Johannes Grenzfurthner was born in 1975 and grew up in the Austrian boondocks in a small town called Stockerau. Out of the womb, Johannes was drawn to...

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Subtle. Leisurely. Repetitive. South Korean director Hong Sang-soo has created in Right Now, Wrong Then a groundhog day of an experience that flows...

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Written by James Gunn and Directed by Greg McClean, The Belko Experiment has a similar plot to Battle Royale, but instead of Japanese children on an...

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It’s hard to list all the things I found underwhelming about Disney’s live action Beauty and the Beast film. To say that the original animated classic...

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Perhaps doomed to go unnoticed on first viewing, there are lovely and thoughtful moments strung throughout Sylvio, made up of slow gazes and floating /...

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Opening a film with a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche is a reliable way to bum an audience out – not because of the towering existential dread...

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