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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. 1999

Documentarian Errol Morris is renowned for his oddball subjects and in Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. he found another keeper. This compelling 1999 feature offers a detailed portrait of this Massachusetts native who stumbled into a very strange line of work: as a consultant to American prisons in the matter of execution apparatus construction. In the […]

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Blame 2017

Blame is one of the less distinguished local films to hit cinema screens in recent times. A tedious, single location drama that tries to extract tensions from a revenge attack that goes awry, Blame is the work of writer/director Michael Henry. Filmed in Western Australia, the film begins with a teacher, Bernard (Damian de Montemas),

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Super 8 2011

Big screen candy rarely comes sweeter than this shameless throwback to a past era of moviemaking. Directed by JJ Abrams but produced by Steven Spielberg, it’s the latter’s cinematic DNA that ends up being smattered all over Super 8. In set up and setting, plot arc and execution, Super 8 is something of a sequel

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Old Joy 2006

There’s a beguiling simplicity to Kelly Reichardt’s films. This is no better exemplified than in her second feature length film, Old Joy (2006), which uses a story by Jon Raymond as its foundation. Essentially a two hander, the film feels like a sort of benign voyeurism in casting a detached, observational eye on a meeting

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Meek’s Cutoff 2010

Kelly Reichardt’s latest film shares many of the same characteristics of her past works Old Joy (2006) and Wendy and Lucy (2008). Yet Meek’s Cutoff very definitely feels like a significant advancement on those pieces in a creative, storytelling sense, despite the qualifying long, still takes and minimal dialogue. It’s more ambitious in its objectives

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