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Box Office Sabermetrics: The Career Batting Line of Radius-TWC

Last week I went and saw the horror film Goodnight Mommy, and as my brain was crying and the audience was epically disturbed, I realized that this was possibly the last release I would see under the Radius-TWC banner. Earlier this year Tom Quinn and Jason Janego, the co-founders of the independent distributor, left the …

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The new nostalgia: Releasing multiple updated versions of childhood memories

In the modern era of filmmaking, ushered in when Steven Spielberg accidentally created the summer blockbuster with Jaws, cinema has become increasingly linked with nostalgia. For example, the early films of Spielberg and George Lucas were inspired by their childhood love of 40’s and 50’s adventure serials, yet directors from the next generation (most notably …

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‘Ginger Snaps’, ‘It Follows’, and the Horror of Adolescence

It Follows, this year’s genre film of choice for mainstream critics, has been compared to many films. With its indeterminately-retro vibe, well-executed tracking shots, and melodic yet creepy score, it hearkens back to tons of movies, and it’s clearly a descendant of the genre as a whole and its various obsessions; youth, death, sex, dread, …

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‘It Follows’ director explains what happened during the final scene

Ambiguity to end a movie must be very frustrating to some people. Writer/director David Robert Mitchell spoke to Vulture last week to explain the vagueness of the ending of his recent film, It Follows. A reminder that following this are massive spoilers for the film. During the third act of the film, Jay (Maika Monroe) …

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‘It Follows’ is fun and gorgeously moody

Is David Robert Mitchell’s atmospheric horror film It Follows parody? Its ambiguous decade could be the heyday of ‘80s American horror, replete with tube TVs, a very retro-looking aboveground pool, and costuming that’s very Blue Velvet. But then there’s a reading device that looks like a rather chic Kindle

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