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Temple of Bad: RIKI-OH: THE STORY OF RICKY
The going gets gutsy in RIKI-OH: THE STORY OF RICKY. In the future — and by “future,” we mean 2001 — the Chinese prison system will be stupid. Also violent, sadistic, and quite, quite unsanitary — what...
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Cinefantastique Spotlight: THE PURGE
Lena Headey and Ethan Hawke play a well-off couple who discover that steel shutters and high-tech surveillance systems are not enough to keep out THE PURGE. THE PURGE had a happy weekend at the...
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The CFQ Interview: BLADE RUNNER’s William Sanderson
William Sanderson (right) and Chris Bauer face the brave new, bloodsucking future in TRUE BLOOD. Who among us didn’t watch lonely, trusting J.F. Sebastian take renegade replicant Pris into his digs at...
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Writer Katie Dippold on THE HEAT
Sandra Bullock (left) and Melissa McCarthy are on the opposite sides of the same side of the law in THE HEAT. So in the midst of the interstellar conflicts, zombie plagues, and giant robots, how about...
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John Sayles and Yolanda Ross on GO FOR SISTERS
Yolanda Ross (right), Edward James Olmos and LisaGay Hamilton dredge the Tijuana underworld in GO FOR SISTERS. It’s back to the border for John Sayles, who in films like LONE STAR has explored the...
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Shaul Schwarz on NARCO CULTURA
The band Los BuKnas de Culiacan celebrate the cartel life in NARCO CULTURA. Ah, the romance of the outlaw — dashing and fearless, living a life of danger and adventure. Except when they’re greedy...
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The Cinefantastique Spotlight: ROBOCOP
Joel Kinnaman strives to be a cyborg with soul in ROBOCOP. And so, shouldering our backpacks and steeling ourselves against the urge to look back, we leave the doldrums of the start-of-2014 release...
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Review: CHILD’S POSE
Luminiţa Gheorghiu in CHILD’S POSE American movies apply a pretty straightforward technique to devastate an audience: build up the emotion; accelerate the cutting; maybe throw in some shouting; add a...
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Review: KIDS FOR CASH
The courtroom was the scene of the crime in KIDS FOR CASH. Former Judge Mark Ciavarella wants you to know it was never about Kids for Cash. In his interviews with director Robert May (and kudos to the...
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ZOOTOPIA: The Furry Fight Against Trump – Hour of the Wolf Movie Review
Here’s a curious thing: A fun, funny, action-packed animated family film that just by happenstance strikes at the very core of the ugliness behind the presidential campaign of a certain,...
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