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Review of Green Room (2016)

By Blake P (935) on 15 Oct 2016

Thrillers thrill more when the thrilling situation at hand doesn't ring with cinematic predictability but with individualistic, inescapable…

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Review of Lust, Caution (2007)

By Blake P (935) on 14 Oct 2016

The best espionage film I've ever seen. Edgy, unpredictable, complex, thrilling, sexy…

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Review of A Bigger Splash (2015)

By Blake P (935) on 11 Oct 2016

A Bigger Splash is buoyed by its spectacular cast…

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Review of They Live (1988)

By Blake P (935) on 10 Oct 2016

John Carpenter's damnation of the controlling mass media and the self-centered ruling class in 1988's terrific They Live might be wiggy - consider…

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Review of The Neon Demon (2016)

By Blake P (935) on 07 Oct 2016

Having conquered my fears and realized that cinema can, in fact, be simultaneously beautiful and depraved, I've gone back to my old habits…

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Review of Point Blank (2010)

By Blake P (935) on 06 Oct 2016

Fans of fast-paced thrillers will definitely enjoy Point Blank. Fans of cohesive storytelling? Not so much…

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Review of House of Wax (1953)

By Blake P (935) on 01 Oct 2016

1953's House of Wax is essential Vincent Price: it's bitingly funny, competently grotesque, loaded with personality, and effortlessly fun…

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Review of The Bedroom Window (1987)

By Blake P (935) on 30 Sep 2016

Michael Shrieve and I scored the movie, Curtis' first feature, so this is hardly an objective view -- although I think it's accurate…

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Review of Phantasm (1979)

By Blake P (935) on 29 Sep 2016

In which the bogeyman is turned into a murderball slinging monkey-suited alien with an arm swing to rival Tyra's…

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Review of The Haunted Palace (1963)

By Blake P (935) on 28 Sep 2016

HP Lovecraft meets Edgar Allen Poe in this entertaining Roger Corman flick…

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Review of The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

By Blake P (935) on 28 Sep 2016

In The Masque of the Red Death, Vincent Price restrains himself from chewing scenery like a rabid red fox…

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Review of The Crucible (1996)

By Blake P (935) on 27 Sep 2016

Daniel Day-Lewis and Joan Allen are the saving grace of this movie…

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Review of The Invitation (2016)

By Blake P (935) on 27 Sep 2016

An interesting premise, but the film failed in executing it. I remember hearing how shocking the twist was, but I saw it coming a mile away…

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Review of Fright Night (2011)

By Blake P (935) on 27 Sep 2016

To childishly believe that your neighbor is actually a baleful fiend with a dark secret is something I figure almost every child experiences…

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Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016)

By Blake P (935) on 27 Sep 2016

To make an event movie out of your basic horror film is no easy feat - a genre for everyone it ain't - so kudos to The Conjuring and its sequel…

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Review of Rancho Notorious (1952)

By Blake P (935) on 19 Sep 2016

Fair revenge western, but not too sure why two or three songs pop up amongst proceedings as their not needed and feel strange…

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Review of Predestination (2014)

By Blake P (935) on 18 Sep 2016

I'd like to think that 2015's Predestination is too twisty for its own good, but a film as methodically designed and expertly written as it…

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Review of Predestination (2013)

By Blake P (935) on 18 Sep 2016

I'd like to think that 2015's Predestination is too twisty for its own good, but a film as methodically designed and expertly written as it…

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Review of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

By Blake P (935) on 16 Sep 2016

Dirty rotten scoundrels these men are, but they weren't born that way - evidently there was a time in which they were sanguine, aware of their…

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Review of Blue Valentine (2010)

By Blake P (935) on 09 Sep 2016

It wasn't always this way…

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