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Killer Joe

The second collaboration between director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) and Tulsa-born playwright Tracy Letts — their first being 2006’s Bug — this work serves up trailer-trash noir as savage as it is savagely funny. Not that all audiences will get the joke. Letts’ first play rolls around in the muck, and Friedkin […]

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Cold Sweat

One drop of the stuff and your head resembles a watermelon dropped from a skyscraper. Certainly, this is among the most original concepts in modern horror, and indie director/co-writer Adrián Garcia Bogliano does not let the audience down. His pair of inglorious bastards — the mastermind having only one eye and requiring a walker — […]

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