“Here it comes,” says casino employee Bill (David DeLao) to Asher Siegel (Nathan Fielder) as they wait together for the gaming floor’s overhead lighting to shift. This is Asher’s sole apparent contribution to the world, a lighting scheme designed to subliminally encourage gamblers to keep gambling. Not only that, but his original patterns had to be adjusted to produce the desired effect...
2023-11-21 06:01:26 +0000 UTC
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12/3, 1pm & 7pm: MINORITY REPORT
12/6, 7pm: ROBOCOP
12/10, 1pm & 7pm: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
12/13, 7pm: BATTLE ROYALE
12/17, 1pm & 7pm: BLADE RUNNER
12/20, 7pm: DREDD
12/24, 1pm & 7pm: CRIMES OF THE FUTURE
12/27, 7pm: CHILDREN OF MEN
2023-11-15 16:44:56 +0000 UTC
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“There’s no such thing as a perfect city,” says Elizabeth Siegel (Emma Stone), donning a dazzling fake smile for the benefit of the empty closet in which she’s recording voiceover for the reality TV show she and her husband Asher (Nathan Fielder) are making for HGTV. Espanola, NM, certainly lives up to that pitch. Blighted by rapidly unfolding gentrification and negligent slumlords with...
2023-11-14 23:57:40 +0000 UTC
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How often do you get to watch a medium evolve right in front of you? Before Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner’s Scavengers Reign, adult genre animation in America hadn’t so much as twitched a limb in years. Now, like the myriad tenacious life forms which inhabit the alien planet Vesta, it feels alive with unknown potential. Clearly influenced by sources as diverse as Jean “Moeb...
2023-11-10 22:14:01 +0000 UTC
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In the sticky heat of early morning, frustrated writer Barton Fink (John Turturro) stares at his sleeping lover Audrey Taylor’s (Judy Davis) back as a mosquito lights on her and begins to feed. The parasitic insect’s whine recurs throughout Joel and Ethan Coen’s Barton Fink, driving Barton to distraction, leaving him with painful bites. It feeds on him as W. P. Mayhew (John Mahon...
2023-11-06 02:22:06 +0000 UTC
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11/1, 7pm: 8½
11/5, 1pm & 7pm: BARTON FINK
11/8, 7pm: MADELINE'S MADELINE
11/12, 1pm & 7pm: THE FOUNTAIN
11/15, 7pm: ONE CUT OF THE DEAD
11/19, 1pm & 7pm: CLOSE-UP
11/22, 7pm: ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
11/26, 1pm & 7pm: MISERY
2023-11-02 03:54:10 +0000 UTC
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Noon: ROPE
2pm: HALLOWEEN
4pm: AMERICAN PSYCHO
6pm: IN THE CUT
8:30pm: HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER
10pm: CURE
Midnight: STOKER
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2023-10-29 16:36:42 +0000 UTC
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Don’t come near me, thinks the wounded and broken Griffith (Kevin T. Collins) as Guts (Marc Diraison) races after him. If you come close to me, if you so much as touch my shoulder, we’ll never… The thought trails off as apocalypse engulfs the world around them, Griffith’s dream of ascension to godhood claiming the lives of his followers and boon companions in a Boschia...
2023-10-27 03:53:41 +0000 UTC
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“Can you find the wolves in this picture?” asks the caption of an engraving in a book on Osage tribal history and custom. It’s a child’s question in a book for children, the equivalent of a “spot the differences” side-by-side comparison in Highlights magazine, but for a man like Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) it’s the wrong question altogether. Ernest knows who and w...
2023-10-26 02:18:43 +0000 UTC
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Penned and directed by William Peter Blatty, author of the original Exorcist novel and screenwriter of its famous adaptation, The Exorcist I
Penned and directed by William Peter Blatty, author of the original Exorcist novel and screenwriter of its famous adaptation, The Exorcist III is a bit of an oddment in the annals of 80s and 90s franchise horror. The film was concei...
2023-10-25 12:42:10 +0000 UTC
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A PDF of my new novella, the medieval dinosaur epic WYRM! I'll have exciting news about it soon, but in the meantime, enjoy!
2023-10-20 06:27:47 +0000 UTC
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“In every seed,” says religious convert Dillon (Charles S. Dutton) as the mangled bodies of Newt and Hicks, Ripley’s (Sigourney Weaver) surrogate daughter and love interest respectively in the series’ previous entry, are consigned to the flames of a gigantic smelter, “there is the promise of a flower.” At the same moment, somewhere in the bowels of Fiorina 161’s correctional facil...
2023-10-19 05:16:32 +0000 UTC
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If Mike Flanagan didn’t suffer from such a pressing need to feed us a spoonful of treacle along with every pound of glass and rusty nails he dishes up in The Fall of the House of Usher, he might have had something pretty close to perfect pulp. Instead we must content ourselves with a series fundamentally, if only slightly, flawed from its inception, a hard-hearted retelling of A ...
2023-10-17 10:11:32 +0000 UTC
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A rich man, Trimalchio (Mario Romagnoli), holds a mock funeral for himself, pressuring his friends and hangers-on to mourn him as they would upon his death. A guest recounts the story of the Widow of Ephesus, a woman whose devotion to her dead husband is so legendary it outlives its own existence, compelling people to believe her own outlandish nested story, concocted to protect her new lover, ...
2023-10-09 03:54:56 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone! So excited to announce a day-long Halloween marathon of serial killer movies, beginning at noon with Hitchcock's ROPE and ending at midnight with Park Chan-wook's STOKER! Trailer by Vincent Ash Renee!
Noon: ROPE, Alfred Hitchcock
2pm: HALLOWEEN, John Carpenter
4pm: AMERICAN PSYCHO, Mary Harron
6pm: IN THE CUT, Jane Campion
8:30pm: HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLE...
2023-10-07 20:48:51 +0000 UTC
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It begins with a woman leaving. The statue of Venus, ceremonially raised from the lagoon of Venice to commemorate the dawning of a new season, sinks back beneath the tranquil waters, the ropes supporting it snapping one by one, scaffolding and pulleys collapsing under its weight. Her eyes, which have only just broken the surface, disappear into their own reflections. She is the first of Giacomo...
2023-10-07 08:04:02 +0000 UTC
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Why does Ezra wear the stormtrooper helmet when he reunites with Hera and the Republic forces? As a human being, why would he risk being shot for no conceivable reward beyond, I suppose, surprising a friend? As viewers are we meant to be surprised when, having seen Ezra drag an unconscious Stormtrooper away to steal his armor, he shows minutes later wearing said armor? Is the show atte...
2023-10-04 06:11:33 +0000 UTC
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In a dead house, a dying man ignores his stooped, haggard reflection. Adriano Chiaramida plays don Damiano “Minu” La Piana as something between lich and mourner, his milky right eye reflecting a world in which he no longer has any purchase, his face and body ravaged by a lifetime of betrayal, violence, and struggle. For the sake of the 'Ndrangheta, one of the oldest Italian organized crime ...
2023-10-03 21:20:00 +0000 UTC
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8/1, 1pm & 7pm: GOOD MADAM
8/4, 7pm: IMPETIGORE
8/8, 1pm & 7pm: THE WITCH
8/11, 7pm: HAGAZUSSA
8/15, 1pm & 7pm: THE NEON DEMON
8/18, 7pm: SUSPIRIA
8/22, 1pm & 7pm: SATOR
8/25, 7pm: HELLBENDER
8/31, noon to midnight:
ROPE
HALLOWEEN
AMERICAN PSYCHO
IN THE CUT
HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER
CURE
STOKER
2023-10-01 15:35:02 +0000 UTC
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It’s a rare scene in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover in which Michael Gambon isn’t talking. “Talking” doesn’t do it justice, really. He rants. He bullies. He declaims and hectors, gibbers and bellows and froths. A quick once-over of the screenplay reveals the obvious: he talks more than every other character in the film taken together. It wouldn’t be appropriat...
2023-09-28 13:46:17 +0000 UTC
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After last week’s light snack of fun fantasy stuff, it’s back to starvation rations for Ahsoka. The show’s seventh episode opens with an airless courtroom drama scene on a set that looks like something out of a fan film. Filoni has no ear for political dialogue, and no apparent comprehension of how governments, or the people in them, function. Why is Senator Xioni (Nelson Lee) ab...
2023-09-27 07:38:57 +0000 UTC
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You’d think Western cinema would be out of things to say about intelligent machines struggling with the idea of their own humanity. Roy Batty, Priss, AM, WestWorld’s sad sack torture dolls, the self-loathing fundamentalist replicants of Battlestar Galactica, HAL 9000’s frantic attempt to exterminate his human handlers, the megalomaniacal psychosexual menace of System...
2023-09-20 19:32:59 +0000 UTC
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It’s stark how much better this (still bad) show is when it gets away from its ostensible protagonists. Even with sets that wouldn’t be out of place in 2000s-era Doctor Who? and a script that reads like a protracted attempt to do the least funny ‘Who’s on first?’ riff in history, Ahsoka’s sixth episode is far and away its breeziest and most entertaining. A planetar...
2023-09-20 07:01:33 +0000 UTC
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In the singular hands of writer, director, Chopper the droid voice actor, and showrunner Dave Filoni, Ahsoka’s fifth episode pulls off the impossible: it is measurably worse than the four lackluster duds preceding it. We spend our first half-hour cutting between Hera flying back and forth over the ocean and Ahsoka and the Force ghost or mental manifestation or whatever of her former ...
2023-09-13 05:21:21 +0000 UTC
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter isn’t going to pull in many accolades for its script, which at its best hits its marks and knows its lines and at its worst blunders into rushed and jumbled exposition, but the bestial Dracula (Javier Botet) is so chilling and the film’s scares and shocks so substantial and unnerving that it hardly matters what the underdeveloped characters are saying...
2023-09-11 04:27:50 +0000 UTC
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“Don’t worry about me.” “I’m not. Should I be?” “What?” “Worried.” “Nope.” If the first fifteen seconds of a game of Pong, that pixel moving like molasses across the screen only to be deflected back where it came at infinitesimally greater speed, really gets your dick hard, then boy is Dave Filoni the screenwriter for you. Every conversation with even a...
2023-09-06 06:39:50 +0000 UTC
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With Shiva Baby, her stunningly confident and masterful debut feature about a young Jewish sex worker and the cloying, interdependent, overwhelming community around her, director Emma Seligman set herself a high bar to jump. Bottoms, a screwball comedy about unlikable lesbian high schoolers PJ (Rachel Sennot) and Josey (Ayo Edebiri) starting a fight club to get pussy,
2023-09-03 06:19:46 +0000 UTC
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9/3, 1pm & 7pm: Big Trouble in Little China
9/6, 7pm: Escape from New York
9/10, 1pm & 7pm: The Thing
9/13, 7pm: Starman
9/17, 1pm & 7pm: Christine
9/20, 7pm: In the Mouth of Madness
9/24, 1pm & 7pm: The Fog
9/27, 7pm: Prince of Darkness
2023-09-01 22:29:50 +0000 UTC
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There’s no need to set Ahsoka alongside Andor to make its failings abundantly clear, but when it transplants Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) from Andor’s tense, sweaty, sexually charged and politically complex environment to the kiddie games of Filoni’s show, it’s begging for a comparison. The results are less than flattering. Take Mon Mothma’s first conve...
2023-08-30 18:06:20 +0000 UTC
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There’s always been something gay about Jeremy Irons, some quavering inner sissiness to his poshly gravel-voiced demeanor and roughened cut-glass features. His ability to radiate this uncertain inner fragility through any number of exterior personas serves him beautifully in Kafka, Steven Soderbergh’s 1991 thriller which transplants the famous author into a sort of melange of his o...
2023-08-28 16:54:11 +0000 UTC
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