IFC Films
Let’s start with the basics: Inheritance was shot completely on an iPhone with a very limited cast and crew. From rudimentary observation, it doesn’t look like streets or common areas were always locked off, nor were a ton of professional extras used. What you see is what you get in Neil Burger’s thrilling spy drama; […]
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Oh, man. This was the one I was waiting for; if you’re a horror fan like me, how can you not love a Friday the 13th-style slasher film from the point of view of the murderer? Did you ever wonder how he manages to stay out of sight until the last second or catch up […]
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I love horror movies. (My wife can tell you that they’re often my favorite thing to throw on when I go to sleep, often to her chagrin.) They can be fun and entertaining, and they offer you the thrill of being scared without being in danger, if that’s your thing. But it always goes the […]
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It’s almost too easy to liken The Taste of Things – originally titled La Passion de Dodin Bouffant – to one of the many multi-course meals featured in the film. You’ve got a brilliant appetizer with an introduction to the film’s dynamics through long takes and a dance of pots, pans, and various foodstuffs; a […]
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If you remember how you felt in the last ten or fifteen minutes of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive – you know, where people have died and there’s a car crash and everything’s frenetically edited when the whole movie’s been kinda languid and people are screaming and others are laughing like lunatics and damn there’s the […]
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I’m not quite sure what I was expecting from Relic, but I definitely didn’t expect to see an exceptionally powerful, humanity-driven horror story… and yet, here we are, lured in by the promise of a good, spooky possession story. But director/co-writer Natalie Erika James takes our expectations and the normal trappings of a haunted house/evil […]
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“It is the tale, not he who tells it.” — Stephen King In so many words, Columbia University professor Whit Burnett (Kevin Spacey) gives this proverb to his attentive classroom during a lecture. Well, almost attentive. There sits Jerry “J.D.” Salinger (Nicholas Hoult) in the back, staring out the window until Burnett calls him on […]
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Zoe Lister-Jones’ examination of a troubled marriage finding its salvation through music in her film Band Aid is a film which makes you – all at once – laugh out loud and cringe at its truth. From being a childless couple in a yard full of children playing, to the late night arguments over the […]
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Here we go again… it’s time for Todd Solondz to blow his mysterious mix of misanthropic, dispiriting, yet guardedly-hopeful misery upon us. Since his first feature, Welcome to the Dollhouse, I’ve had a knack for his films in that they never go the way you want them to or end with any real, meaningful finality. […]
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Charlotte Rampling might be the ballsiest actress of her generation. Many will recall her from such noteworthy films as “Stardust Memories” and “The Verdict”, others for controversial fare like “Angel Heart”, the risqué French flick “Swimming Pool”, and Lars Von Trier’s “Melancholia”. For me, her most telling performance was in “Basic Instinct 2”, because it suggests that no matter […]
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