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A Bad Idea Gone Wrong

By Alan Ng | February 2018

In filmmaking, there is nothing wrong with toying around with the expectations of your audience. Some films have famously started with one…

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In filmmaking, there is nothing wrong with toying around with the expectations of your audience. Some films have famously started with one plot then defied...

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In Ben Parker’s The Chamber there’s a Swedish research ship with a rickety old mini-sub that’s been loaned out to some Americans dressed in tactical...

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The makers of The Devil’s Well have tried to scare audiences despite the fact that they don’t have the money for high-end effects. Fortunately for...

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With a title that gives everything away, Are We Not Cats could also be called The Hair Glutton. This downbeat indie drama film also advertises one of the...

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The Oscars are just around the corner. While the world wonders who will win Best Picture and who wore it best, I decided to spotlight a few of the...

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Take the title Guys Reading Poems quite literally, please. The vast majority of the movie consists of a rotating lot of about five men reading various...

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A Sniper's War is the story of a man known only as Deki whose anti-U.S. views led him to join the pro-Russian rebels in the Ukrainian conflict that began...

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I don’t think many things ruined the field of demonic possession narratives as much as the late franchise-ment of Paranormal Activity. The sub-genre was...

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It’s that feeling of something big is about to go wrong, and you can’t do anything about it. That feeling is exemplified so well in Kevin Wilson,...

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A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition where the laws of nature don't apply. Lena (Natalie Portman) sits in a plain jumpsuit, staring...

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