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Fantastic Mr. Fox
deep-focus.com - 2 days ago
Fantastic Mr. Fox
— deep-focus.com — Wes Anderson's films have always featured a kind of play-acting, from the cops-and-robbers shenanigans of Bottle Rocket... to the spiritual tourism of The Darjeeling Limited , with his characters trying on different personas for size. Maybe that's why Fantastic Mr. Fox , itself a new kind of ... (more) Fantastic Mr. Fox

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The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans
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The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans
— deep-focus.com — The clearest difference between Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant and Werner Herzog's The Bad Lieutenant is a question... of genre. Ferrara's was a horror film. Herzog's is a comedy. (more) The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans

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2012
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2012
— feedproxy.google.com — On my way to work today, I saw a sign outlining a long-term construction project at the... Tarrytown Metro-North train station. They're tearing out both train platforms, putting in new elevators, and restoring the station building itself to its former glory. The job is projected to be completed ... (more) 2012

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On Blu-ray: Up and Monsters, Inc.
deep-focus.com - 15 days ago
On Blu-ray: Up and Monsters, Inc.
— deep-focus.com — The new Blu-ray Disc (BD) version of Up — released on the same day as the BD... of director Pete Docter's debut effort, Monsters, Inc. — is a revelation in at least one regard: it demonstrates that 2D is better. (more) On Blu-ray: Up and Monsters, Inc.

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Repulsion
deep-focus.com - 17 days ago
Repulsion
— deep-focus.com — Not sure why it took me so long to get around to this, given my long-standing admiration... for Polanski's wonderfully lurid Rosemary's Baby . Based on Repulsion 's reputation as a dark psychological thriller, I wasn't expecting it to work so efficiently as a straight-up horror movie — perhaps ... (more) Repulsion

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The New York Ripper
deep-focus.com - 29 days ago
The New York Ripper
— deep-focus.com — My review of The New York Ripper is online at FilmFreakCentral.net : Fulci's killer stalks New York... women and mutilates them with an unmistakably sexual aggression, although he's apparently not a rapist. He's a stock genre character except for one thing: he talks like Donald Duck, ... (more) The New York Ripper
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Trick 'R Treat
deep-focus.com - 29 days ago
Trick 'R Treat
— deep-focus.com — Over the course of the two years that it sat on the shelf following a planned-but-aborted fall... 2007 theatrical release, the Halloween-themed anthology film Trick 'R Treat was embraced by genre fans who caught it at festivals and other special screenings starting that December. I think I can ... (more) Trick 'R Treat

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Horror Hospital
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Horror Hospital
— feedproxy.google.com — Director Anthony Balch, known both as a collaborator on film projects with William S. Burroughs and as... a shrewd cinema programmer and distributor, made this cheesy but imaginative and good-natured horror show on a shoestring. Swinging singles Jason (Robin Askwith) and Judy (Phoebe Shaw, ... (more) Horror Hospital
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Antichrist
deep-focus.com - 10/23/2009
Antichrist
— deep-focus.com — Lars Von Trier has been ducking accusations that he holds the female sex in a rather low... regard for as long as he's been making movies about suffering women. Breaking the Waves set the stage for the next decade or more of his career in grand fashion, with an epic chronicle of female ... (more) Antichrist

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Stop Making Sense
deep-focus.com - 10/15/2009
Stop Making Sense
— deep-focus.com — My review of Stop Making Sense on Blu-ray Disc is online at Filmfreakcentral.net: It's not simply that... the on-stage enthusiasm is infectious, but that something special is coming up: the room is about to be blitzed by one of the world's greatest live bands in polyrhythmic rock-and-roll ... (more) Stop Making Sense

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Hardware
feedproxy.google.com - 10/14/2009
Hardware
— feedproxy.google.com — They say all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun. But if... you've got a girl and a killer robot, then you're really onto something. One of the joys of low-budget horror movies is that the stakes are low enough that filmmakers can get away with a lot of crazy shit, and there's crazy ... (more) Hardware

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Lorna's Silence
deep-focus.com - 9/17/2009
Lorna's Silence
— deep-focus.com — Lorna is in Belgium on false pretenses. She married a man, a junkie, in order to gain... citizenship (and a cash reward). The men who arranged her relocation to Belgium from Albania have a plan for her. Once she is widowed — and the men will see to it that she becomes a widow — she ... (more) Lorna's Silence
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Obsessed
deep-focus.com - 9/13/2009
Obsessed
— deep-focus.com — My review of Obsessed is online at FilmFreakCentral.net : When Hollywood types assimilate exploitation tropes and tactics,... they start concocting films like Obsessed , in which Skinny White Bitch Ali Larter runs seriously afoul of Virtuous Black Woman Beyoncé Knowles by throwing herself ... (more) Obsessed

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Nikkatsu Noir: Eclipse (Criterion) Series 17
deep-focus.com - 9/11/2009
Nikkatsu Noir: Eclipse (Criterion) Series 17
— deep-focus.com — The latest addition to Criterion's budget-priced and barebones Eclipse line-up is this boxed set of five films... from a cycle of tough-minded crime dramas that enjoyed popularity in post-WWII Japan. Little-seen in the U.S., this group of films as a whole probably benefits from Japanese ... (more) Nikkatsu Noir: Eclipse (Criterion) Series 17

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Inglourious Basterds
deep-focus.com - 8/26/2009
Inglourious Basterds
— deep-focus.com — Among the most satisfying of exploitation subgenres, for those who swing that way, is the rape-revenge picture.... The basic structure is well suited to the grindhouse feature — it offers an excuse to stage scenes of sexual violence (the "rape" portion of the formula) alongside images of ... (more) Inglourious Basterds

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