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3.5/5
     (2007)      "The western has been buried and revived so many times in recent years that it's beginning to resemble one of George Romero's stale zombies..." [movie review]      CinemaBlend.com   
  
5/10
     (2007)      "The work of a master visualist trying to walk the line between narrative and visual spectacle. The story is there, but it just sits on the side of the visual experience." [movie review]      PopMatters   
  
     (2006)      "To say that "Abominable" is the best movie ever to premiere on a basic cable channel is degrading both to the movie and to Bigfoot." [movie review]      Beyond Hollywood   
  
3/5
     (1995)      "While not exactly a masterpiece, the TV Alien Nation was a significant improvement over the shallow original." [dvd review]      PopMatters   
  
3/5
     (2009)      "It appears that Ron Howard knew that he had to change the way everything was done in the previous film, and sending Tom Hanks to the barber was a very good start." [movie review]      CinemaBlend.com   
  
7/10
     (1988)      "Maybe it's no surprise that the decade in which AIDS reared its ugly head produced an astonishing number of films concerning dangerously repressed homosexual protagonists." [movie review]      PopMatters   
  
4/5
     (2007)      "It's not too hard to imagine that the inspiration for this show came during a late night, cannabis fueled attack of the munchies. It's no masterpiece but that's the idea." [movie review]      CinemaBlend.com   
  
3/5
     (2007)      "Outlandish, preposterous, contrived,and implausible thriller which happens to be fun if you ignore the fact that it's outlandish,preposterous,contrived and implausible." [movie review]      CinemaBlend.com   
  
     (2006)      "Lots of questions are left unanswered, like a movie you fell asleep watching on late night TV and were never able to find again." [movie review]      Beyond Hollywood   
  
4.5/5
     (1950)      "The craziest true story I've never heard of that turned out to be pretty damn true. Even with Fuller shouting his own melodramatic version of the truth at the top of his lungs" [movie review]      Kinetofilm   
  
     (2007)      "A slick, thrilling, trashy, melodramatic and serialesque soap opera adventure which conceals the complex tale of moral ambiguity beneath." [movie review]      Beyond Hollywood   
  
     (2006)      "DePalma is like a magician who dazzles us with a trick only to show us, alas, it really was only a trick, and in the meantime he's stolen our watch." [movie review]      Beyond Hollywood   
  
5/5
     (1992)      "Fighting against pop culture expectations and a century of vampire cliché, Coppola's approach is unique. Like it or not, no one had ever seen a "Dracula" quite like this." [movie review]      CinemaBlend.com   
  
     (2006)      ""Bubble" is paced very deliberately, like a slowly dripping faucet. Scenes do not seem to be performed, but rather captured like surveillance videos." [movie review]      Beyond Hollywood   
  
4/5
     (2007)      "While not really a "horror" film, "Bug" contains more weirdness, tension and suspense than most other "genre" releases last year." [movie review]      CinemaBlend.com   
  
     (2006)      "The last words onscreen read: "James Bond Will Return!" Of course he will. The difference is that for the first time in years, we actually want him back." [movie review]      Beyond Hollywood   
  
3.5/5
     (2008)      "There is an effortless artistry in this film that may have deceived many. It looks like a trifle but it packs a punch." [movie review]      CinemaBlend.com   
  
     (2008)      "Formally, it demonstrates the power of the aspect ratio in deciding our relationship to the story. Dramatically, the film is at once fascinating and completely annoying" [movie review]      Beyond Hollywood   
  
5/5
     (1974)      "Beyond all the "masterpiece" rhetoric, this is actually a great movie." [movie review]      CinemaBlend.com   
  
4/5
     (1980)      "Teleporting Zombies! Hanging priests! Bleeding eyes! Organ regurgitation! The plot is meaningless and the characters senseless. But these are pluses for films in this cycle." [movie review]      CinemaBlend.com   
  
7/10
     (2007)      "Imagine a sort of CSI:18th Century London spliced with a History Channel documentary and you might end up with something like BBC4's unique program "City of Vice"." [dvd review]      PopMatters   
  
8/10
     (2007)      "Staying out of the courtroom, it's about what goes on before the trial, a period of brinksmanship that plays like an intense secret war waged between truly ruthless enemies." [dvd review]      PopMatters   
  
     (1978)      "For Malick, Man is just a small part of a world which just keeps going round with or without his petty squabbles, crimes, loves, or melodramatic plots." [movie review]      PopMatters   
  
     (2007)      ""Dead Silence" is not going to reinvent the genre. It's actually a big pile of nonsense, but that doesn't stop it from being fun nonetheless." [movie review]      Beyond Hollywood   
  
6/10
     (1960)      "These are far from Martin's best work, but they serve as documents to his likability." [dvd review]      PopMatters   
  
     (2006)      "Scorsese has made an incredible cover version of the original, imbued with every ounce of his artistic personality transforming it into something both familiar and new." [movie review]      Beyond Hollywood   
  
3/5
     (1990)      ""How can the same thing happen to the same guy twice?" asks a bewildered and ultra-ironic John McClane. Well, make a film as successful as Die Hard and you'll soon find out." [movie review]      CinemaBlend.com   
  
4.5/5
     (2007)      "A very detailed portrait of a time and place that is about to change forever. This is a Long Island of 1976 in someone's memory, like a faded Polaroid in an old shoebox." [movie review]      CinemaBlend.com   
  
4/5
     (2009)      " While it has the energy and the endless cinematic invention of his early work, the film's command of economical storytelling is something that once eluded Raimi." [movie review]      Kinetofilm   
  
8/10
     (2006)      ""Edmond" is beyond black comedy, it's a comedy in almost total stygian darkness. A comedy where the laughs make you cough up razor blades." [movie review]      PopMatters   
  
4/4
          "The cleverest conceit of the show is that celebrity doesn't really change a person so much as fan the flames that were burning from the start." [movie review]      Slant Magazine   
  
7/10
     (2006)      "This was never intended to be a conventional movie, but more like a personal industrial film illustrating the process that brings the corpse of a cow to your dinner table." [movie review]      PopMatters   
  
4/5
     (2007)      "Hartley pretzels his faux spy plot into "Syriana"-like knots and ends up with a fascinating if somewhat flawed absurdist romp." [movie review]      CinemaBlend.com   
  
6/10
     (2006)      "Feast is too knowing and in its own way, too high profile to be born as cult cinema. But it's a reasonable facsimile and as such deserves a look from the genre connoisseur." [movie review]      PopMatters   
  
     (2006)      "The budget seems so charmingly low, you actually feel that after Bauer and Hastings share a bottle of wine they might have to pour it back into the bottle to reuse later." [movie review]      Beyond Hollywood   
  
4/5
     (2009)      "The film is only marginally about sex; it's real subject is business. One can argue cynically that all human relationships are a form of transaction." [movie review]      CinemaBlend.com   
  
8/10
     (1981)      "Returning to a show you watched during childhood can be a disappointing experience. But GAM holds up very well and is actually wittier than I understood it to be at the time." [dvd review]      PopMatters   
  
     (2007)      "A mediocre attempt to play with exploitation fire without getting burned. A pair of anti-septic fakes that miss the entire point of exploitation." [movie review]      Beyond Hollywood   
  
     (2006)      "Seven films later, with the conventions of throat croaking and neck cracking having moved into camp, it's amazing that Shimizu can still find new ways to turn the old screw." [movie review]      Beyond Hollywood   
  
3/5
     (2006)      "A crazy little film, modest in its scope but grand in its ambition. It paints it's story in loud primary colors, with intense pressure cooker characterizations." [movie review]      CinemaBlend.com   
  
7/10
     (2005)      "Like the films of Polanski and Nicolas Roeg, "Head Trauma" is a slow burn movie, the kind which gradually pulls you deeper and deeper into its own twisted reality." [movie review]      PopMatters   
  
8/10
     (1980)      "Diana Rigg plays the title role without remorse. Her Hedda suffers no fools and appears ready to strike like a coiled snake." [movie review]      PopMatters   
  
     (2007)      "The lasting effect of all three of Eli Roth's films is a certain kind of Grand Guignol "Punk'D", in which the "mark" is not only embarrassed, he's also cut to pieces." [movie review]      Beyond Hollywood   
  
3.5/5
     (1984)      "Where the brilliant "Raiders" was an adventure film aimed at the child at heart, "Temple of Doom" is really designed for the kiddie market itself." [movie review]      CinemaBlend.com   
  
4/4
     (2009)      "This is a FILM with blood in its veins, a heart in its body and a red hot engine in its chassis. It is alive with ideas and a geniune belief in the power of FILM to express them." [movie review]      Kinetofilm   
  
     (2006)      " A crazy midnight roller coaster ride to Lynchland. A movie you might half dream through an all night marathon of noir and slasher films, your heart pumping with caffeine." [movie review]      Beyond Hollywood   
  
8/10
     (2006)      "Whatever your feelings towards Chappelle, this interview goes beyond the boundaries of the performing arts into a dialogue that is funny, insightful, and even touching." [dvd review]      PopMatters   
  
     (2007)      "Most noirs are coming of age stories where an innocent learns how vicious and cruel the world can be. Only he usually learns it while a hunk of hot lead burns in his gut." [movie review]      Beyond Hollywood   
  
4.5/5
     (2007)      "Effectively tells the story of "The Black Cat" through the troubled life of the author himself, mixing fact and fiction like a horror movie version of "Shakespeare in Love"." [movie review]      CinemaBlend.com   
  
     (1974)      "The entire film builds up a dreamlike tension and somnambulant paranoia unlike any film since Carl Dreyer's "Vampyr"." [movie review]      Beyond Hollywood   
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