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John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this critic. The one-two punch of Woo’s 1989 action masterpiece with his equally magnificent “Hard Boiled” changed the way I looked at the genre in my teens, and truly inspired hundreds of imitators. For anyone in my age range who can remember watching “The […]

Joshua Nelson’s horror/thriller Aware of the Wolf takes the self-help industry in an entirely new and horrid direction. A life coach and motivational speaker known only as Terry seems to develop his shy and socially anxious clients into an assertive version of themselves. Of course, Terry’s methods raise eyebrows, as his clients’ self-assertion training involves

Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy anytime soon. You know, that “Superbad” formula obliquely indebted to much darker single-night films about hapless grown-ups, like “After Hours.” And in a way, cinema aimed towards young eyeballs is all the richer for it. Without that perpetual effort, we would have never

Good movies always have integrity, but not-good movies can have integrity, too. “The Crow,” about a man who is murdered along with the love of his life and comes back from the dead to avenge her, is an vivid example of this principle. It has a lot of elements that don’t work (including a symbolism-laden

The reader of Lost on a Mountain In Maine is not required to know any details of Donn Fender’s biography in order to understand the text. With as little perceptive imagination as in the titles Death of a Salesman or the Assassination of Trotsky which are almost just antics “You probably do not expect too

The concept of witchcraft in itself can be terrifying, but when combined with found footage, it is much more frightening and believable. The inclusion of witchcraft brings an additional level of depth to this film’s brutal realism, increasing the level of fear for viewers. The fusion of the ancient world, cursed objects, and terrifying myths

At least it is understandable that the day started with “The Bricklayer” with Aaron Eckhart as a film star since he portrays an ex-CIA operative with a civilian job, “The Painter” features We can try to put concerns into the Weber-Charles model which features a still slightly way broader range. This action film, although on

The opening twenty minutes of “Close Your Eyes,” the third fiction feature from Spanish director Victor Erice, and his first film in thirty years (his documentary, “The Quince Tree Sun,” came out in 1993; the debut feature that made his reputation was 1973’s “The Spirit of the Beehive”), are as quietly spellbinding as anything you’ll

AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead (2024) is a slasher film which fuses the traditional characteristics of a slasher genre and like most of its combiners, the film receives a lukewarm outlook as well. But as unfortunate as it is easy to ignore because as just as the filmmakers have intended it to be, it

“Rob Peace,” based on a true story, is a kind of movie that doesn’t get made too often anymore. The title character, played by Jay Will with the laser-focused intelligence and charisma of young Denzel Washington, was a science-obsessed young man raised in East Orange, New Jersey, a suburb of Newark. Rob had a drug