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Honour
Honour, the 2014 British thriller and directorial debut of Shan Khan, tells the story of Anglo-Pakistani woman Mona...
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Borgman
The unpredictable mechanics of evil have rarely been as captivating as they are in Alex Van Warmerdam’s Borgman....
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Willow Creek
Bobcat Goldthwait makes a disappointing turn toward the cliché in Willow Creek, a noticeable departure for the comedian/filmmaker....
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Nothing Bad Can Happen
In Nothing Bad Can Happen, a “provocative” film without anything truly provoking, Tore (Julius Feldmeier) is a homeless...
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Snowpiercer
It's hard to watch Snowpiercer without thinking about the last several months of controversy surrounding it. The film,...
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Heli
From the start, Heli establishes the brutality and transparency of its setting. Opening with two men lying in...
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Cold in July
In Jim Mickle’s chameleonic noir thriller Cold in July, an adaptation of the cult novel by Joe R. Lansdale, Michael...
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U Want Me 2 Kill Him?
If you were asked to do something unthinkable and told that one act would benefit a great number of people,...
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The Sacrament
I’m a horror aficionado. I have watched everything from Melie’s Le Manoir du Diable, Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and...
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Blue Ruin
Blue Ruin‘s originality doesn’t lie within the story, revenge thrillers are a dime a dozen, it’s the moody...
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Oculus
Don't be fooled by Paranormal Activity and Insidious getting mentioned in the marketing for Oculus. While those films...
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The Raid 2: Berandal
Welsh-born filmmaker Gareth Evans’ The Raid: Redemtion shook up the martial arts movie genre in 2011 with its exhilarating...
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Enemy
Denis Villeneuve has been keeping himself very busy. At the Toronto International Film Festival last year, it wasn’t...
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Cheap Thrills
Like an alternative, bite-size version of Breaking Bad, first-time director E.L. Katz’s gruesome comedy Cheap Thrills takes an unassuming suburban family...
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Love & Demons
Love and Demons opens with San Francisco-based writer-director J.P. Allen, playing a demon named “Mister D.”, addressing the...