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Satanic Sunday: Women Vs. the Devil

Most female characters in film succumb to the Devil. They are used as vessels or conduits for the Anti-Christ, lesser demons or the grandiose ideas of an occult. More often than not- they are chased, seduced or beaten into submission by satanic happenings. But some of these women do display degrees of ingenuity, agency, and …

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NYFF 15: ‘Experimenter’ is an unconventional and refreshing biopic

Experimenter Written by Michael Almereyda Directed by Michael Almereyda USA, 2015 Not everyone may know of social psychologist Stanley Milgram, but his experiments revealed some very human actions that people experience everyday, as explored in the film Experimenter. Sure, the 60s provided some controversial experiments that were performed on college campuses, but one can’t help …

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‘The Iceman’ boasts a solid ensemble, but a weak, rushed script

The Iceman exists in a strange kind of cinematic purgatory, in which reside those movies that are both too rushed and too slow. With actors like Michael Shannon, Chris Evans, and Winona Ryder among the key players, this period piece about a particularly sociopathic Mob enforcer’s rise to some level of infamy is, at best, decent.

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Is The Chick with a Gun becoming Chic?

“All you need for a movie is a girl and a gun.” Jean-Luc Godard – Just how did packing a gun and dishing out feminist tirades become marketable? Reading academic books on the subject leaves more questions than answers. Dubbing the genre “Chick with a Gun” might seem condescending, except many of these films themselves have …

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‘Frankenweenie’ a visually striking Blu-ray release with sparse supplements

Maybe Tim Burton should stick to stop-motion animation from now on. Some of his most creative films, his biggest qualitative successes, haven’t been in live-action or overdosed on computer graphics. You may think of him as the director of Batman or of Beetlejuice, but Burton’s impact is most powerfully felt in the 1993 Disney film …

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‘Frankenweenie’ is a Love Letter to Classic Monster Movies… as Written by Chris Farley

Frankenweenie Written by John August, story by Tim Burton and Leonard Ripps, based on Tim Burton’s short film Frankenweenie Directed by Tim Burton USA 2012 imdb A feature-length, black and white 3-D animated expansion of his original black and white live action short film, Frankenweenie is an amazing technical achievement by Tim Burton. The film looks fantastic and for …

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