Thriller

Seaside

By Bobby LePire | August 2019

What should the audience take away from Seaside? This pseudo-sexual thriller is patently too ridiculous to work as a sins-of-the-father parable. It is far…

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What should the audience take away from Seaside? This pseudo-sexual thriller is patently too ridiculous to work as a sins-of-the-father parable. It is...

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After telemarketers get fired by their miserly boss (played by Lou Ferrigno, who also produced the film), they take revenge by stealing the company's...

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Don’t let The Bestowal's cosmic key art fool you. Speculative science fiction is one of my favorite genres, but Andrew de Burgh’s debut feature...

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Even killing machines need love, and this is the theme behind Ben Medina’s ECCO. OK, admittedly the theme is not as cynical as it sounds. I come from...

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Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage’s Them That Follow follows on the heels of Ari Aster’s excellent mind-fuck Midsommar. Both films deal with...

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Cashpoint is another term for an automated teller machine. The term is mainly, though not exclusively, used throughout the United Kingdom. Now that we all...

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From actor Casey Affleck comes Light of My Life—a film, he wrote, directed, and starred. It’s a simple movie with a simple, yet powerful idea behind...

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One would think that with all the movies about exorcisms out there, priests are performing them every single day, possibly right now. Clarita is yet...

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Tepid and uninspired. Emma and two men are kidnapped by brutal strangers and find themselves in an impenetrable forest. They will have to work together to...

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Talk about a bummer. Yuval Adler’s latest somber spy thriller The Operative is about as far removed from the likes of The Bourne Identity or 007 as a...

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