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Apr 19 |
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Eddie Pasa |
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DC-area residents: The Endless starts playing at the Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market in DC on April 20, 2018. Independent horror has given us such delights as Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, It Follows, and now, The...
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Apr 5 |
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SPOILER ALERT: While I do not discuss the ending, I will highlight something which happens in the pre-title sequence. It’s an event which drives the rest of the film; discussing it, though, ruins the intended shock. This...
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Mar 28 |
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Eddie Pasa |
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Here’s the key to enjoying Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One: Realize the film’s $175 million budget covered the filmmaking and what rights to various properties they could afford....
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Mar 22 |
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I honestly didn’t want to see Pacific Rim: Uprising, much less review it. 2013’s Pacific Rim didn’t wow me, even with its larger-than-life, IMAX-sized monsters vs. machines WWE-style matches. Truthfully, films...
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Mar 21 |
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Eddie Pasa |
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Submission reminds me of a story someone once told me about a kid she was babysitting. As soon as the kid’s parents left the house, the kid turned to my friend and said something to the effect of, “Here’s how...
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Mar 8 |
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Eddie Pasa |
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Director Ava DuVernay’s adapation of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time can be likened to a Maypole. At its center is a very solid adventure featuring two loveable, precocious children looking for their father under the...
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Feb 23 |
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Eddie Pasa |
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… Be in bed by midnight’s bell… … Never let a stranger through your door… … Never leave each other all alone. So goes the opening lullaby over The Lodger’s opening credits. Creepy and foreboding, the song warns...
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Feb 9 |
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Eddie Pasa |
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Ever wondered what it would be like if you took a beloved character from children’s literature and gave it a modern-day facelift? Imagine no further, as Peter Rabbit has just done it for you, with all the cuteness of Beatrix...
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Jan 17 |
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Eddie Pasa |
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12 hours have passed since my viewing of Johnny Martin’s Delirium, and I’m still unsettled by it. The film – a low-budget but super-slick mix of found footage and traditional narrative camerawork – spooks and jolts in all...
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Dec 20 |
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Eddie Pasa |
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When you were younger, I’ll bet you said, “Awww, do I hafta?!” whenever you were asked to do something you didn’t want to do. Taking out the trash, doing your homework, being nice to your brother, eating...
