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THE PURITANS

By | May 2013

Critically, there is literally nothing negative I can find about this grand gem of a movie, other than I wish it were feature length…

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THE PURITANS

When a young soldier, on leave from Afghanistan, pays his family a visit for Thanksgiving, he finds his parents and sister fully converted to...

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Every October in Seattle, our free weekly newspaper, The Stranger, puts on an amateur porn film festival called Hump! (their exclamation point). It’s not...

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There are plenty of films about people with crippling mental illness, but there are far fewer that tell the story through the over-medicated perspective of...

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