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- By Loron Hays
In one of the better scenes of Leatherface, a superfluous prequel to Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a young couple comes across what appears to be some sort of rotting animal along a lonely stretch of road. The girl (Lorina Kamburova) gets out of the truck ...
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The woman in the center of the camera’s frame has just made a decision. She is going to return the money she stole. Satisfied, she picots away from the desk and walks into the bathroom. It is a clean, white place. The bathrooms in Alfred Hitchcock’s movies are ...
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“Tradition. Without it, we are nothing,” suggests Sheriff Burnside (Gary Sturm) as he stands in front of his ragged townsfolk, delivering words he’s not had to change in over a decade. And they nod with approval. A man is nothing without deed to back up his words and ...
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As stylish and dirty as it is devilishly witty, the biting satire American Made takes an unbelievably insane event, mixes in equal parts deft direction and imaginative storytelling – with a healthy dose of Tom Cruise at his best – to make one of the season’s most surprisingly ...
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With the women’s lib movement, the Roe v. Wade ruling, the passage of Title IX, and Congressional ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment roiling in the background of 1973, a different event managed to step forward and garner the bulk of the American public’s (and world’s) attention ...
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The white wedding dress. The fake eyelashes. The suffocating mother. The orchestra. And the guests. All those guests and they are waiting – expecting even – a beautiful, flower-lined ceremony featuring a union between a bride and a groom. But that’s not going to happen. Even ...
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Drugs are bad, mkay? Especially when your particular drug of choice (and in the case of this movie it’s meth) causes a severe hallucination in which you mistake a bunch of teenagers for invading aliens and then go about picking them off of your pot farm one by one. Damn, stupid meddling ...
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What’s the worst thing that could happen to a young student attending college in today’s social media-soaked world? A failing grade? Sleeping through an important exam? How about attending class in underwear? If we’re to buy what Friend Request is selling, the ...
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The biggest battle in Michael Cuesta’s action thriller American Assassin doesn’t come from its jingoistic statements about America’s populist fight against terrorism. Nor do any of the film’s numerous hand-to-hand combat pieces or budget-busting CGI sequences particularly represent its ...
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Maybe it’s the binge watching I’ve done of Twin Peaks: The Return recently. Maybe it’s the anxiety I have of driving at night. Regardless of the why, there is a smooth seduction to the beginning of Rememory which reminds me of just how powerful headlights slicing ...
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- Colorado Street Suicide Bridge
- Death of a Princess - The Story of Grace Kelly's Fatal Car Crash
- Joaquin Phoenix 911 Call - River Phoenix - Viper Room
- Screen Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79
- Suicide and the Hollywood Sign - The Girl Who Jumped from the Hollywood Sign
- The Amityville Horror House
- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
- The Death of Actress Jane Russell
- The Death of Brandon Lee
- The Death of Chris Farley
- The Death of Dominique Dunne
- The Death of George Reeves - the Original Superman