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Election week arthouse binge part 3: American Honey
American Honey is a vibrant mashup of a coming-of-age road movie and a smut film, blending shock value with a unique emotional experience. The film follows Star (Sasha Lane), a late teenager in a bad situation. She happens across a traveling magazine … Continue reading
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Tagged #A24, #alfred hitchcock, #it follows, #lord of the rings, #quentin tarantino, #stanley kubrick, #the graduate, #the social network, American Graffiti, American Honey, Andrea Arnold, Cannes Film Festival, Confederate flags, Detroit, Only Lovers Left Alive, Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, The Midwest, The Wolf of Wall Street, trash, TV dinner, When I'm dead just throw me in the trash, White trash
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The demons were inside us all along
Christina Ulsh @Stina_Ulsh Amidst blood and glitter, The Neon Demon is a visually striking tale of vanity and jealous rage. Jesse (Elle Fanning), a 16-year-old orphan, becomes part of the Los Angeles modeling scene after photographer Dean (Karl Glusman) discovers … Continue reading
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Tagged #david lynch, #drive, #keanu reeves, #stanley kubrick, beauty isn't everything its the only thing, Bronson, Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, nicolas winding refn, Only God Forgives, the neon demon, The Neon Demon convinces the audience to trust it then betrays us, The Neon Demon is narcissism, The Neon Demon uses silence as a weapon
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The Möbius strip: Conjuring soars, Warcraft disappoints domestically but smashes records in China
While Hollywood’s sequel culture is under intense scrutiny, The Conjuring 2 did fantastic this weekend, opening at no. 1 with $40.4 million. Really the bigger story is Warcraft. After 10 years in Development Hell, the movie based on one of the most popular video … Continue reading
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Tagged #china, #industrial light and magic, #jurassic world, #martin scorsese, #Netflix, #stanley kubrick, #suicide squad, #theconjuring2, #warcraft, #world of warcraft, binge-watching, captain america: civil war, duncan jones, Ed and Lorraine Warren, finding dory, finding finding dory, Independence Day, Independence Day: Resurgence, inglorious basterds, John Travolta's career isn't over -- studios just can't market him anymore, Key and Peele, Kubrick Scorsese supercut, One for the studio one for me, Suicide Squad is rated PG-13, superhero genre fatigue, the box office is down this year, The Conjuring 2, The Enfield Poltergeist, the master, The MPAA is a bunch of toothless feckless half-wits, video essays, Warcraft disappoints domestically, Warcraft smashes Chinese box office records
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The Witch trades in thrills to deliver unbelievable chills
No, it’s not the scariest movie ever made. It may, however, be the scariest movie ever made entirely about boobs. Set in the 1600s a few decades before the Salem Witch Trials, The Witch follows a Puritan family banished from their plantation over … Continue reading
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