The film avoids the tropes of “lovers facing a terminal illness” movies for the most part, offering instead a quirky, sometimes acerbic, original take on such subject matter.
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Strange times call for strange entertainment, and genre film fanatics looking for something unusual to watch these days should get a kick out of the American Genre Film Archive’s AGFA Mystery Mixtape series, which mashes together vintage television and home ...
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Irish/U.S./U.K./Swedish/Belgian coproduction Sea Fever (2019) is a tense, thrilling creature feature boasting compelling drama and fine performances. From writer/director Neasa Hardiman — who has previously worked on the Marvel Netflix series Inhumans(2017) and Jessica Jones (2015) — the film focuses ...
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The Flower in Hell Korean classic The Flower in Hell (Jiokhwa; 1958) is a gritty drama with a memorable climax that uses thriller and horror elements to great effect. It is also an eye-opening time capsule of South Korea in ...
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In the Korean chiller The Devil’s Stairway (Maeui Gyedan [1964]; AKA The Evil Stairs), director Lee ManHui combines film noir light and shade flourishes with thriller and horror elements, with a bit of melodrama added for good measure. The result ...
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As I sorted through the newly released albums that arrived one day in 1984 at the record store where I worked, I came across a record that grabbed me with its striking cover image. I had never heard of this ...
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Lund International Fantastic Film Festival Reviews: Manriki Serves Up Plastic Surgery Horrors; White Snake Offers Breathtaking Chinese Animation Manriki The following films screened at the 2019 Lund International Fantastic Film Festival, held in Lund, Sweden, from 27 September–5 October. Japanese ...
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The following films screened at the 2019 Lund International Fantastic Film Festival (Lund, Sweden) from September 27 until October 5. Hungarian film His Master’s Voice (Az Úr hangja, 2018) is a trippy, challenging work focused on a man’s search for ...
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The following films screened at Arrow Video FrightFest, held in London from 22–26 August, 2019. Dark Encounter (U.K., 2019) is an alien abduction film unlike pretty much any other that has come before. It’s an odd beast, in the best ...
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The following films screened at Arrow Video FrightFest, which was held in London from 22–26 August, 2019. A woman who is convinced her baby was delivered by caesarean section and kidnapped by a shadowy cult tries to convince skeptical authorities ...
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