At the grand re-opening of Klown Kamp at Camp Sparking Lake — long “closed due to death curse” — many a wannabe clown meets his maker in a grisly manner, such as a seltzer bottle full of face-melting acid. Naturally, the debut film from the directorial team of Daniel Valdez and Philip Gunn is primarily […]
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Life Above All
Now available on a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, the South African film is a mostly unflinching look at the enormous and devastating social consequences the disease still exerts in a part of the world where nearly 12 percent of the population has it. The story, while harrowing, sidesteps becoming advocacy cinema by casting itself in a […]
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Life Above All
Now available on a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, the South African film is a mostly unflinching look at the enormous and devastating social consequences the disease still exerts in a part of the world where nearly 12 percent of the population has it. The story, while harrowing, sidesteps becoming advocacy cinema by casting itself in a […]
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The Pig Farm
As the feature-length documentary “The Pig Farm” informs us, his victims may number as many as 49, although he was convicted of a mere six. That’s because he was apparently very good at hiding all evidence of any crime being committed; you can’t convict someone on scads of missing women alone. A grade-school failure who […]
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The Pig Farm
As the feature-length documentary “The Pig Farm” informs us, his victims may number as many as 49, although he was convicted of a mere six. That’s because he was apparently very good at hiding all evidence of any crime being committed; you can’t convict someone on scads of missing women alone. A grade-school failure who […]
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Psychic Experiment
As for “Psychic Experiment,” I’d call it — to borrow a line of its mumble-mouthed dialogue — a “massive, pulsating sinkhole.” That mentioned disaster is among the many, many problems at play in the small town of this ill-fated “Experiment,” which also is home to unexplained disappearances, cancerous tumors, body-snatching pods, the release of a […]
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Psychic Experiment
As for “Psychic Experiment,” I’d call it — to borrow a line of its mumble-mouthed dialogue — a “massive, pulsating sinkhole.” That mentioned disaster is among the many, many problems at play in the small town of this ill-fated “Experiment,” which also is home to unexplained disappearances, cancerous tumors, body-snatching pods, the release of a […]
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Psychic Experiment
As for “Psychic Experiment,” I’d call it — to borrow a line of its mumble-mouthed dialogue — a “massive, pulsating sinkhole.” That mentioned disaster is among the many, many problems at play in the small town of this ill-fated “Experiment,” which also is home to unexplained disappearances, cancerous tumors, body-snatching pods, the release of a […]
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The Family Tree / Father of Invention
I mean you, “The Family Tree.” In director Vivi Friedman’s debut, Hope Davis (“Real Steel”) shines — but only because she’s Hope Davis — as Bunnie, the bitchy, spoiled, unfaithful wife to nerdish Jack (Dermot Mulroney, “J. Edgar”) and unloving mother to a Bible-beating, gun-crazy son (Max Thieriot, “My Soul to Take”) and a slutty […]
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The Family Tree / Father of Invention
I mean you, “The Family Tree.” In director Vivi Friedman’s debut, Hope Davis (“Real Steel”) shines — but only because she’s Hope Davis — as Bunnie, the bitchy, spoiled, unfaithful wife to nerdish Jack (Dermot Mulroney, “J. Edgar”) and unloving mother to a Bible-beating, gun-crazy son (Max Thieriot, “My Soul to Take”) and a slutty […]