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Movie Review: 12 Years a Slave
On first encountering the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man drugged and kidnapped from an educated, domestic life by opportunistic slave-traders in Washington D.C., director Steve McQueen felt he had read the “[A...
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Blu-ray Movie Review: Mindwarp
Mindwarp, a post-apocalyptic, sci-fi gore film produced by Fangoria Magazine in 1992, is a cup half-full, cup half-empty proposition. In the plus column, it stars Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead) and Angus Scrimm (Phantasm), two ...
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Blu-ray Movie Review: The Other
Ostensibly The Other (1972) could be lumped in with several other “bad seed” movies that popped up during the 1970s like Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, and The Omen. But writer Thomas Tryon’s screenplay (based on his own novel)...