Alex Saveliev

Black Water: Abyss

By Alex Saveliev | August 2020

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

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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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Props to director Gina Prince-Bythewood. Here’s a filmmaker who can handle both touching, if formulaic, dramas (Love & Basketball, The Secret Life of...

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Emily Harris's romantic and demonic Carmilla brings to mind Tomas Alfredson's vampire parable Let the Right One In and Julia Ducournau's cannibalistic...

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If you've ever wondered what The Fast and The Furious and Death Race franchises would look like if they were crossed together, keep wondering. The...

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The notion of consuming Ayahuasca, the plant at the core of The Medicine, has always enticed me. My fear has so far outweighed the magical elixir's...

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In my review of Paul Kampf's Imprisoned, I briefly wrote about the oversaturation of films set in penitentiaries. The claustrophobia of a cell, the...

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