Alex Saveliev

Ravage

By Alex Saveliev | August 2020

Sick. Twisted. Nihilistic. Macabre. All these adjectives apply to Teddy Grennan’s impressive feature-length debut, Ravage, a cinematic exercise in sustained tension. Just when…

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Sick. Twisted. Nihilistic. Macabre. All these adjectives apply to Teddy Grennan's impressive feature-length debut, Ravage, a cinematic exercise in...

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There's a shot late in Christian Neuman's horror flick Skin Walker of a character confronting another at a mental institution. They sit across from each...

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Gazing at the ocean fills me with existential musings about the universe. These gigantic bodies of water blanket the majority of our planet; a vastness the...

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Sputnik is something you don't see every day: a Russian sci-fi-horror hybrid about a strong female protagonist conquering bureaucracy, toxic masculinity,...

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The old adage that "you're only as old as you feel" is reiterated in Steven Oritt's affecting little doc Accidental Climber. The filmmaker's focus drifts...

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Andrew Traucki clearly likes monster flicks. His previous efforts, The Reef and The Jungle, were about a shark and a leopard, respectively. A "spiritual...

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The firestorm that engulfed the town of Paradise in November 2018, known as Camp Fire, was one of several that ignited on the same day in California....

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NEW TO HULU! The plight of refugees has been cinematically depicted on numerous occasions - most recently, in films as wide-ranging, soul-shredding, and...

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It's hard to fathom that it took at least four screenwriters (five, according to IMDB) to concoct the sci-fi-horror-comedy Useless Humans. Perhaps the...

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It takes an artist of great skill to make the mundane resonant, to speak volumes with a brushstroke. Like his Belgian counterparts, the Dardenne brothers,...

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